leobardolouisrodriguez

If a movie is halfway decent and clearly made in fun or reverence, and that fun or reverence transfers successfully to the screen, I can make peace with a flawed film and be happy.

Satanic Panic and The Void come to mind as recent, cult-related movies that are of a higher caliber.

This was a bland film. The acting was pretty flat--I don't mean to call out anyone, but the teacher and the two girls, specifically, were weakly portrayed. They read their lines like they were puppets who were lying to me.

Aside from that, the gore is a little silly, which would be fine, but coupled with the tenuous plot and the rather silly batch of characters and the only thing really left to marvel at?

Well, I enjoyed the costuming and the setting. But overall it's a boring film and I suggest passing on it.

Off the top of my head, movies that have.

In all honesty, I left the theater still WANTING to like the movie--I mean, it's JLD!--but I just didn't. Almost nothing about it synchronized with any good review I could give it. It was flat almost entirely. The performances seemed to struggle with the writing, or vice-versa. Either way, they were all at odds.

I think the joke about the socks might summarize how I felt about the whole thing: The joke being there is a wall of socks at Paragon, and it's so...big. That's pretty much the meat of it. I did not laugh, I did not chuckle. I mostly nodded to myself and thought, Yes, I know that wall of socks, and it is kind of humorous.

I'm dying laughing because another review seemed a bit upset that this was a ripoff of the Rookie and could not let that go.

I actually had the same thought during the first ten minutes of the show, but that's where the comparison ends--the on-paper premise of three probationary officers.

Otherwise, this is a very engaging, well-acted, and tightly produced police drama. It is normally not my cup of tea, but the actors were really quite great and the overarching plot was dynamic enough for a six-part series. If it had gone on much longer I might have needed them to change gears, but then there we were, wrapping up episode 6.

My only complaint would be that several story threads went absolutely nowhere. I would have appreciated some closure. Without any big spoilers: Cal. What happened with Cal? The series just ends tying up the main conflict and then...that's it.