Christian French

Intolerable. It’s the same scene shown from five differing points of view, all culminating in nothing actually happening at all. An unexpected nuclear launch from someone, at the US. Nobody claiming responsibility and nobody in the US knows what to do about it, retaliate or don’t retaliate. It’s basically just a rehash of wargames, crimson tide and every other nuclear Armageddon film but when it gets to the point, the film ends. Utter garbage.

WW2 films are numerous and varying in appeal, but Greyhound is wonderful. It’s non stop action all the way through with very little deviation into personal story building plotline. Just enough to show Hanks’ humility and then into action. The battle scenes for the Atlantic crossings were excellent and told the story of the brave souls of the merchant navy who kept us in the war. Hanks truly is a master actor and screenwriter. This film deserved its Oscar.

Like all the Die Hard films. This one is great.

Over hyped and under delivers. Watched this entire series one and stuck with it, mostly because I thought they were stringing us along and there would be some revelations later on but I was left bitterly disappointed. At the end, there were a lot more questions than answers about this plot. As invasion sci-fi’s go it’s certainly no Independence Day which itself is hardly cerebral, this falls way short of even that. It’s less of a sci-fi and more of a tenuous tale of independent human endeavours that drag their flaccid selves along and then sort-of semi-converge at the end. I was very disappointed when Sam Neill’s character got killed as I thought he was building up to something interesting. There’s a bit of box ticking with some homophobia, infidelity, gender stereotyping and schoolyard bullying all being addressed. All this is finding too much airtime now, we want entertainment not a dose of reality and “education”. The alien form itself is weird, with little thought about its appearance. It seems to be able to defy gravity by walking up walls despite only having pointy sticks as legs, only move very slowly and be baffled by a piece of frosted glass. It looks like a trendy floor lamp when it is stationary. I wouldn’t waste my time on it again.