Jack Colton – Google

Walsh is entertaining and it’s a well produced movie with lots of funny parts, but….at the end of the day, its mostly a lot of the expected cherry picked extremes that people who want their opinions validated are going to enjoy the most. Case in point, a good 10 minutes of the movie is dedicated to the Empire actor who faked being attacked. Sandwiched between lots of press coverage of it happening and interview of him talking about it happening. Yet not even one second of screen time is devoted to the much larger press coverage he got for faking it, or that it ruined his career. Another good 15+ minutes of the movie is him in disguise on various news channels. Yet these are all obviously paid placements on local stations, the kind where you pay…you get interviewed. Any interviews with people who’ve experienced racism? None. But plenty of paid appearance fees for the more absurd of DEI workshop grifters. Point being, see it if you want. Laugh. Enjoy the absurdity of the actually absurd that he calls out, but don’t pretend this is anything other than a one sided narrative masquerading as a documentary.

I feel like most of the glowing reviews on this have to be fake. The movie is a really cool concept with a ton of potential and talented people involved, but the way the script and plot is written (especially the second half of the movie) is just….unbelievable and bad. Plot hole city. Every few seconds they just kind of do super unrealistic things without any coherent explanation, especially the entire last 5 minutes and then an ending that means nothing, on top of being based on a series of laughably unrealistic things.

This show had everything it needed to be amazing, until the plot dove WAY too deep into the now OVERLY done trope of multiverse, where nothing is real and everything is open to interpretation. I enjoy sci-fi mysteries and alternate realities, but when the "everything is everything" schtick is as common as it is in today's shows and movies, it's just getting to the point of being annoying to watch. Just when you think you understand what's happening, you realize you don't—and it feels like maybe the writers the show don't either. (For the people who disagree with this review and like to think they're more intelligent for not being "spoon fed plots," don't worry, I'm actually you and you're actually me. And this isn't Google, it's a potted plant. Wait. That was an 18th version of you as a cyborg reading that. No, wait. You're now a non-binary guitar string who doesn't have an opinion on this show. ZzZZZt. Just kidding. You're a cat. No, you're all the above and you think all things simultaneously about this show. Confused? You must like your reviews spoon fed to you.)

It’s pretty to watch and you want it to be good, then it just gets tiring and awkward. It’s like they got A list talent for every part of this other than…. plot, character development, or anything that would make it worth watching. It’s like a satire of a satire of the music industry, with just enough grains of truth to make the director feel edgy and someone who’s easily blinded by shiny things think they’re watching something worthwhile.