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I'm surprised by the rave reviews of others... moreso than the storyline of Bly Manor. I found it mostly boring, dragged out, and more than a little predictable, for the most part. It felt forced, as did many of the character's traits. Political agendas once again seem to triumph over something that would play better if it was more organic. The history of the manor is a good ghost story, but alas, is only one episode. It is for this reason I'm giving two stars instead of one.

Yikes. This was horrible. Warner STILL needs to revamp their take on DC. How do they manage to make such a terrible movie out of pre-existing material that people already like...? The script was terrible, the timeline was all over the place (with a barely-veiled attempt to cover by having Harley narrate), and the characters had zero depth. And the language and bad-guy violence was unnecessary and gratuitous. I liked the relationship she had with the hyena, though... and the Looney Tunes cartoon in the one scene. And that was about it.

Awful... Pure schlock. The idea that all men, and especially all white men, are bad, seems to be a lot of what this movie is pushing. Otherwise, it jumps around somewhat incoherently, and there are too many questions to even present here. For an empowered woman, Stewart certainly has at least a couple of trashy outfits on and her butt cheeks are center screen in one bit. Tacky. And while Balinska is very watchable, she looks about 20, and the plausibility of her past is a pretty hard sell. Especially when the former partner looks closer to 50. Then there's the line, "Hugs work" that was a huge eye-roller. In fact, the entire script was trite and boring. A college student could've done better. But the woman behind me in the movie theater was braying like a tittering donkey through most of the film, so those easily amused might enjoy it. Hailing a predictably boring movie, to me, screams that being "woke" is more important to some than creating quality, funny, interesting films, anymore. Heinous. And sad. Hopefully someday, creating a good movie will be more important than political agendas, again. Until then, I'll stick to books...