dwaynemayo60

Now don't get me wrong this is not a great movie but it's a good movie. The plot is kinda cookie cutter, human species at risk, one last chance, bucnh guys and a suicide mission. There's nothing here that you haven't seen before. But it's got a ton of really good actors in it and they do well with the script. The CGI is passable to goos. It's kinda Steampunk, meets the dirty dozen meets sin city but it is mostly steampunk I really enjoyed it for free on YT. It's good science fiction. It's violent and dystopian. If you like weird Scifi like Priest then you'll probably like this. If you like to nitpick movies apart like you're a real movie critic whining about the director , a particular actor, or whatever else know-it-all crap you like to talk about then you won't. I just had it playing on my second monitor while i was doing something else and I stopped what I was doing and watched it. Nuff said.

I may be biased but I've read and loved the books. I'm actually rereading (listening actually) them as I'm watching.

I'm glad they're sticking pretty close to the books. Really close compared to some of the atrocities I've watch in comarison (WoT, Halo, etc) where the writers can't seem to actually do a live version of the book or game but just use the IP to spew out whatever agenda they have running on a loop in their brain.

The production quality is top notch. And the acting is OK. I think you can tell who read the books and who didn't. The guy playing murderbot is pretty good. I think the awkwardness is a little overplayed but I may be wrong. I think in the books murderbot was more annoyed than uncomfortable. It's one of the reasons I'm reviewiing the books again.

The main issue is the episodes are too short. To be fair the books were really short too. Almost long short stories rather than novellas. For a TV show like this, the episodes need to be longer. This is not a sitcom you laugh at for 25 minutes and then move on. I'm afraid it'll kill the show. It's like going to a restaurant for the best burger in town and there 3 inches across. You just don't get enough, so you end up eating elsewhere.

The fun of the books was you get this almost unstoppab;e robot, who no longer has any limits and chooses to help a bunch of hippie, we are the world, make love not war, softies and in doing so they change his view of humanity and himself and what he wants to be. In the books, IIRC, he even measures his later decisions on what these people would think of his actions.

Finally, my hope is that they make longer episodes and the actors get a chance to really become, settle into and understand their characters. I hope apple will give them the chance. Longer episodes, a little bit more of murderbots sardonic humor, and a really good screen adaptation and this could be really good.

I really like this movie. The acting was very good. The story went just the way I like it.

I'm not sure what to call this, action-comedy? Silly action romantic comedy? It was just fun. The writing and acting just makes you like who you're supposed to like and dislike who you're supposed to dislike. And at the end of the movie, everybody gets what you think they deserve. Lots of violence but the movie takes it so lightly you barely notice.

Watch this movie. Don't take it too seriously. Relax and have some fun. It kinda has the same feel as Gross Pointe Blank from way back but a little more quirky.