Baywatch. If you just take it for what it is it's an enjoyable film.
7/10 for the film. An extra point for Alexandra Daddario running and bouncing. She should be contractually obliged to run and bounce in every film. 8/10 overall.
Simple folk with a simple plan, but too good hearted and moral to be more than slightly funny.
The family friendly setting means the well-acted stereotyped characters are only mildly offensive, losing the opportunity for really racy or violent humour.
The plot moves along at a good pace, the ending is good (if a bit drawn out), and if you like American NASCAR, there’s that element to enjoy, but overall, it’s never better than alright.
Alien Covenant: 7.5/10. Beautiful scenery, space effects etc (ship was stunning!). But very dodgy alien CGI effects (aside form the last 'soldier' alien) and some VERY stupid decisions made by supposedly intelligent space crews responsible for 2000 lives.
Aliens were also very fast to chest burst and transform, bu ti suppose that kept the pace of the film moving.
Fassbender was very good, but saw the 'twist' coming a mile off; there must have been a better way to get David on the ship as oppose to the twin switch!!
Started out well and promising, some slight old skool feel, especially with the music. William Defoe's character is awesome and he plays it really well. The story takes some strange turns though and it loses a lot of its appeal about half way through, in such a frustrating way. One of my colleagues mentioned it's based on anime, does the anime follow the same story?
I have the below major issues with this film
The black guy's character (L) is who is chasing Kira is just plain off and awful, and it ruined the film for me. His background story makes zero sense. So he came from an orphanage, was placed through torturous training and selected to become this highly skilled investigator. At first I thought he may have a connection to the book somehow, but no. He is just some odd one out character, which doesn't fit the film. Would have been far better to focus on the kid with the book for longer and work with a story that shows him getting deeper in to the demon's grip, perhaps a play on the rules in the book.
How come anyone can write a name in the book and the killings still occurs? Surely, this defeats the idea of having a keeper of the book.
At the end of the film, he writes in the book a long drawn out plan which starts with his girlfriends death, which is fair enough (or possibly not, as it has an 'if' clause regarding her death). What gets me is that he also writes that he falls, but survives. This is a total plot hole, we were told that the book can only bring death and influence those that have been chosen for death. It's not some kind of wishlist. It felt like a real easy and weak exit to finish to the film.
Started out well and promising, some slight old skool feel, especially with the music. William Defoe's character is awesome and he plays it really well. The story takes some strange turns though and it loses a lot of its appeal about half way through, in such a frustrating way. One of my colleagues mentioned it's based on anime, does the anime follow the same story?
I have the below major issues with this film
The black guy's character (L) is who is chasing Kira is just plain off and awful, and it ruined the film for me. His background story makes zero sense. So he came from an orphanage, was placed through torturous training and selected to become this highly skilled investigator. At first I thought he may have a connection to the book somehow, but no. He is just some odd one out character, which doesn't fit the film. Would have been far better to focus on the kid with the book for longer and work with a story that shows him getting deeper in to the demon's grip, perhaps a play on the rules in the book.
How come anyone can write a name in the book and the killings still occurs? Surely, this defeats the idea of having a keeper of the book.
At the end of the film, he writes in the book a long drawn out plan which starts with his girlfriends death, which is fair enough (or possibly not, as it has an 'if' clause regarding her death). What gets me is that he also writes that he falls, but survives. This is a total plot hole, we were told that the book can only bring death and influence those that have been chosen for death. It's not some kind of wishlist. It felt like a real easy and weak exit to finish to the film.
I've not seen the movie but I've seen the anime. The anime is excellent and from your description these are not issues in the anime. But then again, they have much more screen time than a movie...so more time to explain everything. It's well worth a watch
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