Tom Michael

Very well made film. Recommended.

I loved Wildlands. Played it though twice and enjoyed it more the second time. So I really wanted to like Breakpoint. Unfortunately, all of the defining characteristics and unique values that gave the series it’s identity and made it what it was have all been removed. This game is an ugly brew of other Ubisoft titles. A mash up of Assassins Creed and Division gear score and loot box mechanics and micro transactions, jammed into an environment they don’t suite and aren’t wanted. This is Odyssey with a re-skin. The core ‘feeling’ has completely gone - that is feeling like an elite spec ops soldier leading your fire team in tactical ops. Instead, you’re encouraged to scurry around cleared areas to steel dead foes trousers and hats. It’s totally immersion breaking. The map is inherently less interesting than Wildlands and lacks the rich diversity of regions and beautiful scenery. Through most of it you are humping across steep craggy woodland, which your elite soldier continually struggles to traverse. Driving is impossible and pointless because the road system is like a dropped bowl of spaghetti. It removes all desire to explore the map. Mainly because you quickly realise there’s nothing to find! The ‘intriguing locations’ are all just another generic building with a lootbox. It’s a strangely dead and lifeless place, so lacking in character that it comes across as totally unconvincing. This isn’t helped by the appalling tacmap, which is a frustrating, borderline unusable, eyesore. The general interface is also terrible. Inventory management is a tore. Most activities are a tore actually. Hopefully Ubisoft take stock of the negative reviews and release a proper successor to Wildlands, giving us what we actually wanted - updated graphics and animations, a new and interesting real-world setting that isn’t full of irritating drones, more mission variety, an improved squad control mechanic.

Bought COD Modern Warfare on PS4. After inserting the disk there’s a 40 minute install time. Fine. Immediately after that, it starts installing the update file that you need to play it. Ok, nothing particularly unusual with that. Only its a whopping 91GB and 5 hour download (even with my super fast internet). After this finely completes, i try to launch it only to find the update has actually installed War Zone. A battle royal I didn’t even want. MW is now in a submenu but - worst of all - it hasn’t even been installed yet!!! It had taken all that time to install War Zone!!! I next need to download all of MWs ‘add ons’ - totalling another ~3 hours. ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS. How can it be so hard to access the game I’d actually PAID FOR AND WANTED TO PLAY. Now I’m stuck with an unavoidable/mandatory 91GB War Zone download. I’ve had to delete 2 other games to make room for it all. What are Acivision playing at?!?

Would have been a pretty good film but almost completely ruined by unbelievably awful dubbing. No idea why they originally shot the film half in German and half in English. Makes no sense for either audience when half of it is going to be dubbed for them either way. I understand it’s a German production so honestly would have preferred watching the whole thing in that language with subtitles. The performances of the German cast (particularly the kid) are obv really strong - but this is impossible to appreciate when the dubbing is so bad it sounds like made for TV trash.

By any measure, this is a bad film. There are so many occasions when the main characters do things that make absolutely no sense whatsoever - purely to advance the plot beats. It is so inexplicably stupid, so many times, that it left me shouting at the screen. Its bloated, over-indulgent and boring. It fails at even being funny and, instead, winds up taking itself way too seriously. Clearly, Zack Snyder should've tasked someone else with the job of developing the script and story.