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In my opinion we finally got a worthy installment The Good: - Pacing on point - No plot holes that I could see - Creature design was excellent glad to see some non CGI again - Actually scary like the first one was - No filler scenes - They finally did what Alien 4, Prometheus and Covenant tried to do successfully The Bad: - I think that in the first act too many characters were killed off, I'd either have liked to see a larger cast, or a bit slower roll on the death counter - First act had some world building about what life is like working for Weyland Yutani and I wish we got just a bit more of that - Final act was a little short - No 4DX release =( Overall I loved the movie, if you see a 2 hour movie and it feels short, you know you enjoyed it. Not releasing it in 4DX was a real miss imo, it was fun in DBOX, but the extra level of 4DX would have been epic.

June 2024 Edit: They have finally patched the game to address the issues I had before, It is now a 5 star game. Companies REALLY need to stop rushing things to launch. Imagine if it launched in its current state? Pros: - Best ARPG campaign I've ever played - Graphics are right where you want them to look beautiful but not lag your PC - Talent system is deep and complex with lots of layers to your build - All classes seem fun Cons: - Level scaling of monsters limits any time your character feels powerful to just one level when you may have got 3 or 4 gear upgrades at the same time. As soon as you level up again, the monsters scale, and any power creep you had is negated. I have no incentive to grind up to World Tier 4, because it is not giving me any new content, its just giving more of the same 45 min long levels. There needs to be some point, where your character stars to outpace the strength of the monsters you are fighting. Otherwise its just a time sink, not progression. - Monster variety is non-existent, by the time I was done the campaign at level 45, it was very clear to me that, with the exception of Elias and Lilith, I had been doing the same 3 or 4 boss fights over and over and over again. Likewise every single pack of monsters is the exact same fight, there are no new challenges, no different mechanics, just sameness - Making legendary gear be aspects that you can extract and move to another item at will, completely negates any kind of sense of reward when you find an item. The whole thing that made the gameplay loop in every previous game fun, was that you never knew what was gonna drop. Now you don't even care what drops, cause you already have your aspects. These are by no means things that cannot be fixed, but they are also so bad right now that playing has become quite simply boring and tedious. Every time I am fighting I keep thinking "I don't want to do this for another 40 odd levels". I hope they can fix it with patches, because I honestly am in love with that campaign. Blizzard's best showing in years for sure, but still not on the mark in my opinion. However unfortunately I think Diablo 4 will suffer from the same problem all games have now. They do not plan to release the real 'full game' for 4 or 5 or 6 seasons. All the issues I've mentioned will likely be gone by then.

I will preface everything I say with this. I appreciate what they were trying to do; they were trying to create a Godzilla movie that is grounded in the human element, not in big monster fight scenes. I can respect that. However, that's where the problems begin, because, while I can see that was their goal. Their attempt to do so was very bad. All the characters in the movie are one-dimensional stereotypes and are extremely boring. Any of them could have died at any moment and I would have felt nothing. Even when people are being evacuated from a giant 300 foot tall monster destroying the city, they do not appear to be panicked and are simply casually jogging away. I really don't know why this is lauded so heavily as the 'greatest Godzilla movie' in recent years, because it really is just quite boring. There is one hour and fifteen minutes of boardroom meetings in this movie.

Crowe should stick to acting, this was atrocious. This is a movie without a beginning, without a middle, and without an end. SPOILERS because you need to hear how bad this thing is. It starts with a bizarre cold open of two teenage boys going swimming together with golden hour sunlight, and a muted soundtrack, I honestly thought to myself if I was watching the right movie, because it felt like the start of an LGBTQ+ rom com. Which, in hindsight, probably would have been a better movie, but I digress. Abruptly that cuts into Jake (Crowe) buying a painting at an art exhibition, where he is confronted by a woman who wants to paint his portrait, he reluctantly agrees. Suddenly he is in a different, tropical location where we see him determinedly driving a Rolls Royce Phantom while providing a stoic voiceover of how he made is fortune. I assume this location was in the Andes somewhere because he meets some recluse shaman and takes ayahuasca. Later in the movie he invites childhood friends to his office penthouse and then tells them to pick 3 cars to 'race' to his nearby estate. One of them isn't allowed to drive because he had one sip of alcohol for some reason. None of it matters in the end because their 'race' is impeded by heavy traffic. Later he says they can have the cars they rode in or they can have $5 mil USD in poker chips and play a game of poker with him. Out of nowhere we have a cut away to some character we've not seen and who is not named talking on the phone in the bar about planning to steal artwork from Jake. Later we find out this is 'Victor' who has some unexplained connection to Jake. Then they start playing poker. Sometime after the poker game starts we see that Victor has followed one of Jake's butlers on their way home and uses them to gain access to the estate. Suddenly RZA shows up in the house unannounced and pretends to be a home invader before revealing himself to be Jake's business partner. Meanwhile Jake's daughter and mistress find out that he has prostate cancer and that's why he's having a poker game. Victor gets the gate opened, whilst killing Jake's butler and they enter the house. Some undetermined time later, but the movie implies 30-40 minutes. Jake's wife and daughter enter the house, who somehow didn't notice the body of the butler Victor left hanging off the gate. Then the movie just kind of.. ends. Jake tricks Victor into taking a lethal dose of scopolamine and the other two burglars are inexplicably killed or incapacitated off camera. Cut to: Jake's dead and they are reading his will, I get the sense we are supposed to feel sad but since there was no character development in this movie, its not possible. Roll credits. There is never any actual conflict in the movie, there is no mystery because all the 'tidbits' you think you are getting end up turning out to be nothing. It just kind of happens, for no reason. What an awful abomination.

I originally watched this show in my teen years when it first came out and loved every episode, however upon returning as an adult I find the later seasons to be lacking, somewhere around episode 10-13 in season 3 the show seems to lose direction. Characters start to make completely non-characteristic changes in their personality. If I were to give a review of Season 1 and 2 I would give the show a 5, but the continually lack-luster quality of the latter seasons would only get a 3 from me. So this is why I gave a 4. Sadly the last half of Season 3 and all of Season 4 and 5, like another reviewer said descends into the Kevin Sorbo hour where Dylan Hunt is really great and can never lose, with increasingly far-fetched skin of his teeth victories each episode (or week if you're talking original run). At point in Season 3 after 'restoring the commonwealth' there is a few scenes to indicate that there is in fact other crew on board besides Rommie's androids and the primary crew. However they are only used as convenient plot devices in niche cases. An entire aspect that could have given much needed depth to Season 3 would have been to incorporate this larger skeleton crew and show a glimpse of what life on Andromeda was like before The Fall. If you're a sci-fi geek like me you will find yourself making it through the bad episodes at the end of series just to poke holes in them. Meanwhile always wishing you got more of the high points in Season 2 which for me was by far the strongest season.

Not really sure what their goal was here, but if I wanted to play a game primarily focused on melee combat I would have bought For Honor. I do not want to play such a game. What I wanted, and, what I was expecting, is a game where you play as an ancient Assassin who is primarily concerned with stealth, and you know, assassinations. This is only an Assassin's Creed game in name, and nothing else. Its a great Viking RPG, and I am enjoying it for that but this is not what AC is supposed to be at all. Add this on top of the glitches, random freezing, out-of-sync mouth movement on characters, janky combat where you hit a target but nothing happens, and this is all around rather quite underwhelming. If this is their new direction - not even being an Assassin at all, this will be the last AC I play