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I guess you have to live in the US to see how bad this series is. I don't know what Netflix was thinking, but apparently they need a Turkish American to help them not to sink money into awful projects like this.

The Protector has a talented cast but mainly suffers from the badly written screenplay and terrible directing. Especially the dialogue is laughable at times and extremely cheesy, on the nose with full of exposition.

Of course an American won't be able to understand this because Turkish isn't their native language. I'm sure the VP of Development is getting help from Turkish people but, if those people are not in the Hollywood system, they won't be able to tell the difference between bad vs good.

Although fantasy stories are not a part of the Turkish culture, a well executed project might have had a huge following if it was done the right way.

Unfortunately, the action scenes are terrible and the lighting job looks worse than a high school student movie project.

The dialogue is so bad that it makes these great actors look like amateurs as if they are participating in their first acting gig.

The Protector could be a great start and an example for the upcoming Netflix originals, but it falls flat on its face.

I'd say don't even bother to watch. Even the 0.99 cent on demand movies have more potential for you to have a good time.

The title itself just guves it away about the quality of this crap. Bad dialogue, predictable storyline and awful cgi effects that looks like it was done on Windows Paint.

The humor is so bad, you start questioning your self worth and the reason of your existence. Stay away.

Awful acting, terrible script that makes zero sense, horrific cgi effects. This cliche twist in the end was made twenty years ago. One word. Awful.

It's a pretentious little indie movie with illogical murder scenes shot in POV. Elijah's acting is wooden and most times he sounds like he's reading the script rather than saying his lines from memory.

One of the most important aspects of a slasher move is the murder scenes. Maniac is so irrational and fake it puts you off right away. Year 2012, the guy finds a victim from an online dating site and ends up at her house.

Now when he murders her, he leaves so much evidence that actually it's funny. Touches everything with no gloves, vomits in the toilet and even kills her with bare hands.

Now in real life or in any movie that has a little bit of logic, the cops would be knocking on his door the very next morning.

He leaves witnesses at the restaurant where they eat first, his IP address at the dating site, he even sends her his real picture before they decide to meet. All of these are more than enough to catch this guy, but no one comes looking for him.

Another pet peeve for me was how unbelievable it was to see him hook up with women. Come on now, this is LA. You drive a serial killer van, your hands are all scruffed, dirty and look like hobo hands and yet, women throw themselves all over you? Right...

The only good part about this movie was the cinematography. It's beautifully shot and it doesn't tire you during the POV scenes. It's very artistic and helps you get in the head of the character.

However, it's not enough to justify wasting your two hours for this. I'm sure you can find something more productive to do, like watching paint dry rather than seeing this stupid movie. I say pass.

This movie is terrible. Please do not try to watch it even if you find it for free. Trust me, it's not worthy of your time. There's no such thing as a story, the acting is terrible and the directing couldn't probably be any worse than it is now.

Basically, this movie has no production value whatsoever. It's shot inside two apartments with a dslr or a cheap camcorder (maybe even iphone) and the visual quality is lower than a youtube production.

I wouldn't be surprised that much if I watched this on youtube but I can't understand how netflix said yes to this nonsense?

You could grab your Galaxy S6 or Iphone 6 plus and shoot a much better movie than this one, I guarantee you. Stay a million miles away.

Will Smith had a lot of pressure on his shoulders because of his latest movies flopping big time. Focus was a mile stone in his career and it had to be successful otherwise he was probably going to lose his A star brand.

Unfortunately, Focus is most likely another flop at the box office with an open just shy of 20 million. Considering the budget being around 50 mil plus unannounced marketing costs, it will be a loser unless it does extremely well in world wide box office.

One of the main reasons of the failure is the problems with the story structure. The movie cannot decide what genre to be and constantly goes in and out of romantic comedy. This causes us to lose "Focus" and prevents us from connecting with the story.

Although the acting is successful, the roles are not believable. Margot Robbie plays the adorable sweetheart successfully however, her character traits couldn't convince me that she could be a successful con artist that easily. Will Smith, does not look convincing enough as a con artist, as Nicholas Cage or Leaonardo Di Caprio does. I didn't even bite it for one second.

These problems along with an uninteresting story line caused me to disconnect from the movie altogether and especially during the 50-60th mark of the movie, I started looking at my watch every few minutes.

Focus opens with an interesting scene where we get to meet the lead cast and witness their semi romantic start of their relationship. Robbie is a beauty for sure and a pleasure to watch and her good acting abilities help us wonder what's coming next.

The chemistry between Smith and Robbie is not enough and pushes you away from the believability of it. They look awkward together and I can assure you, Will Smith is not the right cast for this role. His performance is too wooden at times and he is having trouble reflecting back the chemistry he gets from Robbie at certain scenes.

Focus is aware of the story structure problems so it comes up with a twist after a twist, especially during the final stage to keep things relatively interesting. It does succeed but the unconvincing romantic scenes drag the movie and causes us to feel we are watching a chick flick rather than a con artist movie.

Focus is definitely not a "Catch me if you can" nor it is "Matchstick Men," it doesn't claim this either. It just tries to be an entertaining heist movie with romantic elements attached to it. It doesn't fail altogether but it doesn't succeed either.

One of the things that Focus failed was the most important aspect of a heist movie, the con job. They were not artistic, impressive nor believable. Especially the gambling scene felt far fetched and borderline ridiculous rather than impressive.

Also there was no tension built up for the final job and for the sake of a one last plot twist, they decided to make it "coincidental" rather than planned which was a huge mistake. A heist movie is known for its tension. Ocean's Eleven is all about the job along with lots details and the movie tells us how they are going to pull it off.

Focus on the other hand has none of this. This probably was may be the main reason of the failure. There was no tension building up for the one last job. A big mistake the producers felt to see which probably will cost them millions of dollars.

Also the movie cannot convince you that Robbie and Smith really has the skills to pull these jobs and you never have this issue with similar movies like Ocean's Eleven or Catch Me If You Can.

Overall, Focus is an okay movie which you should just watch on your favorite movie platform instead of going all the way to a movie theater. There's no reason to see it on the big screen.

My advice, save your money and give this a pass. Just wait for it to come out on netflix or red box.

5/10

The Interview may not be the best comedy ever made or win an Oscar or two but, it definitely is entertaining. If you don't pay attention to Debbie downers and nay sayers who have nothing better to do other than bashing anything they watch from the comfort of their armchairs, you might actually have a good time watching this movie.

While I admit that the recent publicity helped this movie draw more attention than it would get otherwise, I can assure you that it is not the worst movie ever made. The humor is unbalanced at certain points and it can get quite repetitive but there are some scenes that made me laugh out loud, especially Seth's scene with the tiger and the electronic device.

I couldn't figure out why these armchair critics are bashing the acting so much, because the casting is phenomenal. The chemistry of Rogen and Franco is on par with Diana Bang (Sook) and Randall Park (Kim Jong- Un) and their performances are simply amazing.

If you really want to see a movie that is fun to watch, then I'd recommend The Interview. The film knows that its premise is ridiculous, therefore it doesn't take itself seriously at all. Never it claims that it has Oscar worthy material so I have no idea from where these critics are coming up with that. There is also some well done gore, which adds extra flavor on top of what it offers to us.

Go see it. It's only five bucks and you don't even need to leave the comfort of your house. I promise you'll have a good time. 7/10

It's easy to tell the rave reviews are written by 13 year olds so if you are an adult, keep that in mind when considering to spend your hard earned money on this cheesy horror flick.

Ouija is a poorly written and directed horror movie with basically having nothing to impress the audience other than cheap jump scares. I gave up on expecting character development in these type of horror movies long time ago but I was still waiting something in the sense of story telling which this movie has none of it.

Quija heavily relies on one thing. Trying to scare people by off screen boo effects because it doesn't have a story to tell. A group of high school kids get a Ouija board and gather around a table to find out why their beloved friend hung herself. Of course, the answer is not that clear and soon after, whatever they communicated with, starts chasing the group.

The main problem of this movie is relying on jump scares rather than making the movie itself scary with the ambiance, story and the situations characters are in like Insidious, The Conjuring, Anabelle etc. If your friend suddenly tried to scare you every five minutes, how would you feel? Or would you still be scared after an hour or rather become annoyed? I'll go with the latter and that's what happens with this movie.

Considering the 5 million dollar budget, I wasn't expecting much but when you think that the first Paranormal Activity had a thirty thousand dollar budget, I bet this movie could have made a lot better than what it is now.

Unfortunately, Ouija lacks tension, horror, likable characters and all the things that a good movie has. It's a bummer to see that we don't have a good scary movie on a Halloween weekend and certainly Ouija does not have the fun you are looking for.

P.S: If you really want to get scared and are looking for a movie about Ouija boards, then you should check out the British scary movie "Long Time Dead". Although it was made more than 12 years ago, it is a lot more scarier, gory and more successful than this awful Ouija mess.

I don't know why Nicholas Cage accepted this movie, who knows maybe he needed the cash, but definitely this job is not up to par with his standarts.

The script is badly written with full of clichés and paper thin characters. During the entire movie I felt like I am watching a bad B class movie.

Nicholas Cage, settles down with a nice house, a daughter and a beautiful wife after leaving his criminal past behind. However, soon his past catches up with him and it is up to him to find out the evil behind all this.

The twist at the end, although not bad, is still not enough to save this flick. There's no resolution and the ending is so bad, you almost feel like it spits on your face.

If you are planning to watch this just because of the cast then do yourself a favor and skip this one, because if no name actors were cast instead of A list, they would do just fine.

My vote 3/10 for the sub par music, awful script and bad ending.

This film was produced by mad crapper productions (seriously, why would you name a production company, mad crapper anyway?) which does not surprise me why this film is totally crap.

What kind of a genius would write a slasher script where NOTHING happens for the first 60 MINUTES???? Yes, almost 60 minutes! Not 3-5-10 or even 20. I understand the character development but boy, you could develop the frigging citizen kane in 60 minutes, leave aside a slasher movie character.

You can maybe now understand how bad this movie is. From start to finish it's a painful 80 something minutes and even if you can bear till the end, you will see that you were right about guessing the stupid twist coming from 60 miles away.

The story is about a bunch of high school students who are on a school trip to study the industry revolution and on the way, they encounter with a maniac who starts offing them one by one with a pick axe.

Although the story sounds like a regular teen slasher, the script and directing is so bad that it makes it almost impossible to watch it till the end. The characters are extremely annoying and very unattractive for a screen cast, makes you wonder if they all accepted to play for free, in exchange of an IMDb credit.

I don't know you, but I love slashers mainly because of the high tension, original killings, hot chicks and surprise twists. I can assure you that this movie has NONE of them. All the killings are off screen, a little bit of blood is spattered on the camera, that's all the visual effects you get from this flick. There's no nudity or gore or any actress whom you may think she is a cliché hot slasher chick.

Now I'm not saying that heads should explode, guts should be torn or the students should go for an orgy, but why the hell are you bothering to shoot a slasher movie, if you are not going to show any of the killings??? This is like shooting an action movie where the camera never shows an actor actually firing a weapon!

All in all, please do not let the fake rave reviews written by the cast and/or their families trick you. You are really better watching your turd float in the toilet ,rather than watching this one. Just forget about it and watch something else instead.

Unbelievably awful acting, directing and script!

1/10