Mr. Pete

I avoid making negative reviews about anything but in this case I’ll make an exception. Algorithm or allegory, we sat through it all night waiting and trying to find something worthwhile. It was like a sinking ship or burning building movie where the cast of characters are thrown together and now trapped so that their disparate personalities are squeezed out in desperate situations. Somehow it all felt contrived and I just didn’t care. Sandra Bullock was very intense but it came across as make believe. All fiction and si-fi is make believe but this felt like it. Like Sharknado, a B movie that was camp, Birdbox was filled with A listers in a B story filled with gratuitous gore.

Big actors bad story. Sorry to say that but i felt like I was watching a lot of dramatic scenes without a consistent thread.

Escape at Dannemora is excellent viewing! Every episode was gripping, pulling you into the prisoners and prison guards life and mentality. You can understand and empathize with both. After all, both subjects are in prison and both have dreams and schemes for an escape. The quality of the character development, the reality of the scenes and the story lines all merge in an outstanding and totally believable drama. The fact that it is a true story makes it educational on one level but it also sets a higher bar for making it incredibly entertaining which Ben Stiller and cast totally achieved.