Robby Mack

Nice camera work and good costumes. The 'hero' was a thoroughly unlikable dullard who craved fame with every fibre of his ego but totally lacked the talent or effort required to achieve it. Of course he ended up being a small foot-note in history solely because he was born into the right circle of society, wot, snigger, snigger. Jolly good show that he should be able to throw a tantrum and spend the vast majority of the war in a 'special' hospital for 'special' people all the while effecting the overwrought indignation that the war should continue when he said is shouldn't. How mean the world was to him! Bad, mean world! Later, how smug he was when he shocked his friends and married a woman! What a sacrifice! What a revelation! Too bad for her, though. Still, she was only a woman so it didn't matter, did it, because the world needed to be all about him and what he wanted. At the end though, he made it all better because, (probably fearing death and that no-one would notice he was gone), he made himself immortal by finding god! Hooray! Now he will live forever! The movie was tedious, the poetry ceaselessly dull and none of us really needed the constant barrage of black and white WW1 scenes just in case we missed the point of the great (?) man's constant tanties. War is bad, everyone, war is bad! Thank goodness for a fast forward button.

Oh dear, what a wasted opportunity. A movie that hired some stellar actors who could not save the dreary, obvious plot. None of the characters endeared us to them in any way (with the possible exception of 'mother', who did what she could with her miniscule part...). I spent most of my time hoping the Terminator would show up and dispatch them all. Morgan was creepy from start to finish and the vapid Amy needed a good punch in the nose. "Ooo, Morgan, stoooppp." (trembling bottom lip...) Way too many needless fight scenes at the expense of building some character into the characters (so we weren't left feeling relived when they died). I think I actually cheered when Amy got it. And I can't believe it took 20 minutes in for anyone to realise who the AI was... And what was that killing at the end? The AI could fight and leap and kill with ease only to be drowned in knee deep water by an older, shorter, weaker woman? I could have fought my way out of that one! And why were they creating these AI beings anyway if they were so easy to dispatch? What possible function could they serve when a trained human could have done so much better? Dumb, dumb, dumb. 2 stars for the nice scenery.

Thank goodness for fast forward! None of the characters were in the least bit likable but I gave an extra star for the special effect religious looney ending. Should have had way more killing off of the dull characters - I would have enjoyed that! Cinematography was quite good.

What a terrible movie. None of the characters were even slightly likable. I would have enjoyed it more if each character had been torn to shreds one by one. Boring, boring, …zzzzzz…

A north American version of the Australian series 'Mystery Road', Dark Winds is a refreshingly honest portrayal of the people and countryside of the American west. With a little bit of disturbing spookiness and a lot of family unravelling, this series has a great deal of potential. Really sterling performances by the actors.

Not only were the characters unlikable, but none followed the manners or social expectations of the time the story was set (ignoring the obvious). Tedious, ugly and uninteresting. By the end I wished they all had died.

Oh dear, oh dear… So slow and tedious, not to mention silly. Even the premise of the story was silly. Way too much standing around looking dumb when a swift walk would have been all that was needed to escape the dreaded and so very slow moving fog. It’s fog, people, fog. In the background the ‘scary’ music tinkles ceaselessly interrupted occasionally by some high pitched squeaky noise probably designed to irritate dogs. My dog slept through it, but it sure irritated me. By the time the annoying radio jockette was telling us to “go to the old church,” (50 times in case we missed it…) I was yelling “Go fog, move faster - get those people! Please!” Sadly the really annoying ones survived. 2 stars because I like Jamie Lee Curtis.

What can I say - I only watched Fisk for the clothes! Helen Fisk puts all those dreary ‘Dallas’ frocks to shame! Who knew brown would be the new black? Stunning, just stunning. Can’t wait to see the glorious fashion in the second series! Bring. It. On!

It was OK as a movie, but I was a bit confused by the strange jumps in the countryside - Brian Brown struggling across a huge South Australian salt lake, then next thing he is in Alice Springs county. A bit like riding a horse in Spain and the next minute you are in northern India... that is the distance difference. I also don’t understand why the women were all dressed in Victorian era gear in the 1920s... By then, every station had a pedal wireless and a motor vehicle of some sort. Women in the NT were 40 years behind the fashions! I grew up in that country, so the historical and locational settings were just weird. Great acting by the indigenous actors saved it from being terrible, I felt sorry for Philomac, who was forced to make the decision to be a white fella even though he will never be accepted as one. I did enjoy watching him throw the completely useless gold watch in the waterhole.

Less magic and far too many 'fight' scenes. Is the director a 14 year old boy? The strong characters from the first movie are reduced to mumbling, fumbling bores. I was stunned how in an instant Queenie fell under Grindelwald's influence. Wasn't she strong enough to go against the entire American magic council to pursue her 'no-mag' love? Then in one second she pretty much abandons him and rushes off to be with Grindelwald... The blue-fire fight scene towards the end of the movie was excruciatingly long - thank goodness I was watching a recording and could fast-forward through most of it - it was tedious! What an appalling way to destroy the really good first movie by following it with this confusing drivel. Jude Law as the young Dumbledore??? No, just NO. For all our sakes I am hoping Grinelwald destroys all us no-mag's so we won't have to suffer through then next poor sequel...