Mika2049er

The quick review. - it's very very dull. Utter tedium.

The trailer bares no resemblance to the movie

I've no idea what this is. Style wise it's all over the place, like the director learned his trade watching 80's tv adverts for cigarettes and music videos. So much use of slow motion. It will switch between a slow motion punch up to a 3 minute musical interlude of the cheesiest kind in a breath. The score bares no resemblance to what's going on.

You will get the gist in the first 10 minutes, it's the same all the way through, it doesn't get any better.

And what's with all the 9/10 AI written reviews. At least 20 of the reviews of this film are using AI generated paragraphs that are identical and repeated in multiple reviews. The people/person being paid to leave these false reviews doesn't have enough intelligence to change them enough to make them seem real. Especially as they have posted them back to back. It's embarrassingly bad and IMDB need to get a grip. Without these fake reviews it's coming in at at 2/10.

Ep 1-5. I really hoped this was going to be great, it's really not. Exciting x-files type plot, nope. I mean there might be, but the writers/editors have no Idea how to tell a story. Big monsters, nope not on any grand scale. Boring inconsequential characters with formulaic script and plot progression, yip. First 2 episodes showed promise, the sixty's period was interesting (presumably different writers). Once the episodes turn to modern day the series nose dives into mediocrity. Character depth is on a par with a Nickelodeon movie as is the script and story line. In a vain attempt to make it interesting it's constantly flicking to a few seconds of back story that serves no purpose except slowing down the excruciatingly plodding plot, and I use the word plot loosely because by Ep5 I am none the wiser as to what anyone in this mess is trying to achieve, except find out what 2 of the kids father was up to, and I doubt anyone still watching actually cares. He's a list of everything it's trying to be and failing completely. Godzilla, Stranger things, X-files. Story is plodding and uninteresting, The characters are bland. The editing is tedious.

There's no meaningful story. Literally nothing. First 30 minutes had an interesting set up, then DiCaprio snorts Coke and shouts manically for the rest of the movie, Margo gets her kit off, nothing remotely interesting happens and then thankfully it ends. Well it ended with 30 mins left for me as I couldn't take any more of the tedium. Dullest movie I've seen in a long time. I can only imagine that 20 year old Coke heads are banging 10/10 scores because they think it's cool. Can't fault the acting by DiCaprio, but the script couldn't be further away from Gilbert Grape. Has there been a decent Scorsese film in the past 20 years? There's so much quality available to watch these days, if this was released today it would be right on its arse where it deserves.