David Bradley

I regret to say I conemplated walking out a couple of times. The child runs to mother trope is lazy and worthless, deeply irritating. Also Ana Taylor-joy lacked charisma. Mad Max has plenty of space for humour, Taylor-joy managed to avoid showing any semblance of personality whatsoever. And the tragedy us - I like Ana Taylor-joy. Can I add, 90% of the audience was over 40 and much older. The Mad Max franchise is living on past glory. It needs to engage a new audience before the current audience literally dies off. Three stars because Chris Hemsworth held it together and there were some good set pieces.

Excellent sound track, great storyline. Dev Patel has created a "Die Hard" type movie which is well worth a watch.

Others will go into more detail but this film is a fantastic sequel. My only minor quibble is the editing seemed jumpy at a couple of points - such as skipping 'learning the desert." I reckon the directors cut will see at least another 20 minutes added to the run time. There's definitely scenes on the cutting room floor that should be in the movie.

Far more lighthearted than I expected. A great portrayal of the warmth and leg-pulling wisdom of NI families, all while making the point of the absurdity of destroying communities over perceived religious grievances. Stylised to make a point. I remember the fashion, the music, the dancing. Even the wake after the funeral rang true. Irish and Scottish wakes usually erupt into family celebrations. There is such a thing as a good funeral. Overall very good, well done. Ps Ignore all reviews that mention Belfast in the 70's, 80's etc The story deals with the start of The Troublles and people's confusion over targeted violence. The city descended into bitter darkness very quickly. Anyone reviewing the movie against their experience of later days is being wilfully malevolent and ignoring the truth of communities at the beginning of The Troubles.

As a British working class man I watched this movie and accepted the outstanding fundamental portrayal of the dispossed taking a stand for their rights. The people of "Peterloo" were part of a thousand year progressive struggle. Why is my review not five star? Mike Leigh and his cohorts are incapable of portraying the English/British elite as anything other than buffoons. The brutal truth is that this cohort of people, over hundreds of years, created the modern world. They were the most effective civil.and managerial class in history. They produced exceptional individuals who literally created the greatest nations on planet earth. They were anything but buffoons. When you see them represented as such, you are watching a political cartoon. The one thing that undoes Leigh and his brigade of leftwingers is the Parliamentary record known as Hansard. Those records show the elite at each others throats on multiple issues, including slavery and the rights of the working man. It was these elites that brought in universal education, abolished slavery and multiple other human rights abuses. Do not read history through the eyes of Mike Leigh. You will be misinformed.

Fine. It should gave been excellent considering the cast but ruined by tropes. And yes, every self-effacing spy walks around with a plastic bag full of visible money. It never occurs to them to conceal it in a holdall. Dear me, give me peace.

Plus sides, some great performances, and a story worth telling. Negative? Studios need to reign Scorsese in. This movie is far too long, to the point I considered leaving with an hour to go as the narrative was snail paced. And the final "real crime" scene was ridiculous, a mockery. I'm only giving three stars as the ensemble cast were excellent. It's Scorcese's self indulgence that's the problem.

Is Netflix to be allowed to bring compelling Asian stories to a Western audience? Western audiences won't watch subtitled shows in great numbers, so the answer is to hire a diverse international cast that speaks English. So now that has been established, what accent would be acceptable and not a mockery? Answer - none. The argument raging about the accents in this show are puerile, infantile, and an attack upon the many compelling and brilliant minority actors. Four stars as I felt the second series dragged out story lines too far. One particular incident was so far off historical track it made me wince. There's a difference between creative licence and historical derailing. On the bright side, at times the cinematography was incredible, the acting fantastic. Benedict Wong as Kublai Khan was exceptional. This was a feast for the eyes. Most Westerners don't understand the historical context of Kublai Khan. Without going into a history lecture I'll give two examples. His great fleet sent to invade Japan was sunk by a typhoon - known as Kamikaze - the Divine Wind. That set off a chain of events in Japan where seven hundred years later the West became familiar with Kamikaze in World War 2. There was a direct psychological link between Kublai Khan's actions and the elevation of the Japanese Emporers to God-like status. We in the West suffered greatly due to that belief system. Watching this show you would have had no idea of the Khan's enduring battles with Japan. Second, Marco Polo's book was divisive. On his death bed he was asked to denounce his descriptions of Eastern civilizations. Propagandists in the Catholic church took the negative elements of the book and painted the "Barbarians" as beasts who needed to be saved from their depravity by Christianity. The worldwide expansion of European Christian Kingdom's was influenced by the propaganda derived from Marco Polo's book. The law of unintended consequences written in blood across the big blue sky. Polo refused to denounce his book, saying that he had not told half the story of what he had seen as he knew people wouldn't believe him. We are lucky to know anything at all o his story, he was jailed for two years on his return to Venice and it was a chance meeting in the jail that resulted in the book. The cancellation of this show has deprived Western audiences of critical historical context. If it was cancelled because it was a bad show, fair enough. If cancelled because it was losing too much money, fair enough. Cancelled because some clown Western critics criticised Asians speaking English and knee capped the show? Shameful.Netflix should consider now commissioning series three, the audience is now there. And Western audiences will be staggered at what influence Kublai Khan had upon our societies, world history and lets not forget the main character of the show, what happened to Marco Polo when he returned to his beloved Venice. It's an incredible story, tell it. finish it. On a side note - The Thai king, King Mengrai founded the city of Chiang Rai as a defensive fort against Kublai's potential expansion into modern day Thailand. He decided that it was too close to the Southern Chinese border and founded a second city further down called Chiang Mai. The beautiful moat you see to this day was built as a defence against Mongol expansionism, and against the Burmese. Whole modern day cities were built because of Kublai Khan, an amazing and enduring influence.

This series is in a different league, however, don't watch the intro to the first episode. I understand the concept of foreboding, these two minutes were a belisha beacon of spoiling.