MartinH32
Distinguished Member
6/10 for me. Not a bad movie, story a little lame and just one set piece to another - very predictable and generic. May as well watch Sky's Strike Back. I found the dialogue way too low too!
i find scoring a film pretty much redundant these days as you say it is very personal to the point of being meaningless.I love how everyone appears to have the exact same interpretation of the film (light on plot, heavy on action) and yet come out with scores anywhere from 6 to 8! Really does show how personal films can be.
Great lil film and due to colour filters usef and the nature of the film I would compare it more to Man on Fire than others mentioned in the review .solid 7 and will watch again .
rotten tomatoes has long lost any credibility it ever had with shill reviewers pumping up awful film's scores totally out of line with the film going public who thought they were terrible ( see 'The Last Jedi' 'Rise of Sky Walker' and Vice Versa 'Dave Chappelle's' latest release being one of the most extreme examples of getting a 'professional' critical panning with almost universal positive scores from the public.Said the same thing to my wife when we were watching it, tonally it reminded me of Man on Fire. It’s a decent benchmark to illustrate the weirdness of ratings, currently languishing on 39% Rotten tomatoes but a sky high 89% viewer rating. Challenge would be to find another movie with such a huge disparity. I’m in the viewer camp,MoF is a minor masterpiece for me.
fair enough , but in the end its just a person's opinion and i have found myself disagreeing with quite a lot of the reviews/scores on this site including Cas and the others.I don’t dispute that at all but I’m a bit old fashioned and like reading movie reviews, Cas on here is very good at presenting objective analysis and he’s a credit to this site.
I dont like the fact that more and more mainstream critics reviews on RT’s are now linked to paywalls, that’s beginning to tee me off.
Absolutely and if a case is presented well enough it can sway me either way though doesn’t necessarily mean I’ll watch or not watch. There’s so much content around that sites like this with like minded people become invaluable. I was commenting on gangs of London yesterday and somebody mentioned a new drama called zero zero zero. I hadn’t heard of it but tracked it down and it’s very good indeed.fair enough , but in the end its just a person's opinion and i have found myself disagreeing with quite a lot of the reviews/scores on this site including Cas and the others.
Yeeeessss? But only just about.Quick question:
IMDB has it as 18! Thought it was a 15. If so, does it earn it’s certificate (I’ve read IMDB’s violence-ometer)?
Yeeeessss? But only just about.
I imagine the certification comes from the depicted violence against children.
There's a couple of gruesome moments, but actually they're not shown full on. It mostly a lot of implied nastiness.
It was nice to see a Hollywood action pic not set in one of the usual locations.Well I loved it. Started watching at 11:30 last night thinking I'd have to split it over two nights but it had me hooked so stayed up and watched the lot.
Fantastic action scenes, great locations, Hemsworth was spot on as a grizzled merc. 7.5/10, it loses a little for the main bad guy, he was a little cartoonish somehow.
It was nice to see a Hollywood action pic not set in one of the usual locations.
I had low expectations so wasn't too disappointed by this and the actions scenes were well shot. But I never felt empathy for any of the characters.other than perhaps Randeep Hooda's character which I didn't expect
My wait for a good Netflix film (The Irishman might be an exception) continues.
Shout at NetflixI can't watch Extraction. Every time the error code: m7111-1931-404 at the time of starting this. What should I do?
I can't watch Extraction. Every time the error code: m7111-1931-404 at the time of starting this. What should I do?