frank klein

Finally!!! No identity politics forced into this! It’s so relieving to see a new series that hasn’t been corrupted by dei where casting choices are dictated by talent, the periods setting and location and just making the highest quality and most entertaining series possible. The series lets you know how absurdly dangerous travel was before this county was settled before the establishment of law and order and any type of infrastructure. The action scenes are super intense and well shot, while I think they went a little overboard on the number of arrows flying by they get the point across with vigor. Dolby ATMOS is done really well and the height and directional sound effects really add to the intensity of the action scenes.

I think this is a very healthy departure from all the DEI identity politics we’ve been subjected to over the past four years.. Rather the casting choices are based on the realities that both surrounded at lot of us most of our lives but also what some sixty million people throughout the central regions of the United States would expect to see in similar circumstances. This is not your typical scripted film, for me it’s refreshing and inspiring to see people mixing things up creatively… taking risks!! It seems instead of over the top acting they’re trying to combine a bit of unscripted reality into a scripted movie?? Brilliant! I love they’re also stepping away from primping and sending the actors to hair and makeup before every scene. Rather it’s more into the reality of what you’d expect to see in a similar realities or a combination of the two?? Props for trying something new and stepping out of Hollywood clone culture!!!

I think they blew it! Could of been a truly amazing movie esp with Kendrick… It should of been, but again it feels like there’s just a lack of maturity in the writing and production and a total lack of continuity… ie the scene with the woman from the audience seems so forced and as they devoted so much time to multiple scene’s, but it doesn’t fit and makes no sense?? They have her acting like she survived an attack from Ocala, but you find out later that nothing ever happened to her! There was a point to make in that Ocala went on killing because people didn’t listen to people like her, but you’d never understand that was her role until well after the movie was over and you knew more about Ocala’s crimes. I feel because the producer’s and director just did not know or understand Ocala’s history well enough to make those scenes work. But then it does make sense if you take a step back and look at much of what’s been made after 2020, there’s so much forced identity politics rammed into everything. It’s more important that the token POC actress gets the scene deserving of their identity status; Anna Kendrick can’t have it all, that would be racist! I think because we’re in the midst of this insane cultural trend of forcing diversity into every crack and crevice and that we’re being told that representation is so much more important that quality in film, things like this movie have paid the price for it! It feels like I’m expected to understand the metal shorthand (the scene I’m questioning) of these young phenomenally talented (in their own minds) writers, directors and casting agents that they’re playing their social justice role by including these scenes and that I’m expected to understand and champion these things that really only make sense to them? And if I criticize this in any way, I’m a, you know what.

Impossible to immerse yourself into if you have an understanding of European history. Woke colorblind casting in this period and setting is insulting as it tramples on people’s actual history, covers up a horrific period we should never forget or muddle with inconsistency, not to mention the double standard and hypocrisy involved. The misrepresentation of facts and history to push a political message has another name… propaganda, and its dividing us.

The cast looks like they were pulled from an international airport where both fashion week and a hair styling convention were happening. Sorry, but these fables were created in periods where people rarely bathed, and people who were the same race killed, tortured, and enslaved each other over tiny differences in their beliefs! Everyone was close minded!! It’s what kept them alive!! Sorry, but immersion is just not possible… it’s just silly…

Phenomenal movie! And the first movie I’ve seen made after 2020 that doesn’t go insane with forced diversity! So tor me this was the first movie or tv show that allowed me to fully immerse myself without that obnoxious heavy political pressure and stress you feel when seeing the ridiculousness of so many races cast in periods where there was almost no integration. Thank you for being brave Viggo and standing up the the bullies!!!

Brilliant! This was my favorite movie through out the entire 15 years I worked as a photographer/photojiunalist! If you were working with film, spending time in darkrooms and editing in Crestive Suite this movie speaks to you in ways no other can! It has a superb mix of action and drama and Denzel and Dakota absolutely crush it turning me in to emotional jello… And what sends this into the stratosphere and over the moon is Scott’s cinematic brilliance…. What looks to me a mix of 35mm black & white coupled with cross-processed 35mm chrome adding depth to one of the best scenes in movie history!!! I can see it now all these ears later, the grain embedded in the film, yeah no other film has ever carried such an intense impact… Maybe some of the film work in Schindler’s List but actually history helped that along, but the cinematic magic Scott created that wizardry all on its own… The film does go a little off the rails at times but again the quality of the cast, acting and cinematic brilliance distracts just enough so you don’t really notice…

One of the best movies ever made!!!

Absolutely brilliant! The first episode’s cast, script and overall presentation is astounding! Deeply moving. As you move through the episodes they just keep at it! Absolutely amazing casting choices, script/writing is on point and it continues to impress! This is one of the best series made in the last ten years!!! Do yourself a favor and watch it, you’ll totally feel smarter after too!!

The first 3/4s was really a great movie! Phenomenal actors playing characters with real depth; and no token unknown actors forced in to make a political statements. Then it seems they pulled the first director and it turned into John Wick production??? All the over the top horrid forced diversity we’ve been traumatized by since 2020 was saved for the last twenty minutes??? A lot of new unknown brown members of the cast step in, take charge, just for the ending??? It really is like two completely different movies!!! The first is sensible and grounded in reality and then it just goes completely off the rails insane!!! Save your $$$ & wait to stream it for free!!