davidmlandau

At this point (Ep 06) I'm hate watching this show. What a disappointment. A strong creative team and an all star cast and it's just...dumb and boring and all over the place. Clichèd and trite and soap opera-esque for no reason. Way too many subplots that go nowhere , so much time wasted on extraneous BS and so much incredible talent given nothing to do and directed badly. It's almost laughable...no it is laughable. Save 6 hours of your life. You could watch almost anything else and be better for it: watch Black Doves or Slow Horses or The Diplomat. All are way better thank this dreck! What a shame. Great premise that could have made for an excellent show.

Don't you dare compare it to Die Hard. That's offensive! Hahaha this film is SO bad. Blatantly stealing from Die Hard and the recent Edris Elba Apple+ series, Hijack, this 2hour waste of time is such garbage it's shocking. Netflix is usually better than this. So disappointing. It wastes the talents of Jason Bateman and Dean Norris (how far has he fallen to take such a thankless role). I don't get the appeal of Taron Everton at all. He's just terrible. There's nothing charming or interesting about this guy and he brings nothing to the role. He does run a lot. Like A LOT. So if you want to watch Everton run all over an airport this is definitely the film for you.

I'm a fan of The Archers. This is not that. A massive misstep in a career full of great films. There's nothing terrifying IMO nor is there anything interesting happening here...other than the blind neighbor who has some great dialogue.

I wonder if Michael Powell set out to make a biting satire of the film industry. Is Peeping Tom Powell's subversive comedic commentary on the state of the art in 1960? It fails there too but at least I could make sense of the effort if it was.

All the talk surrounding this film leads to expectations massively unfulfilled. Truly disappointing. Powell may have been the director of The Archers but he certainly was missing his writer here!