RedMars2017
Joined Dec 2016
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That ratio speaks for itself. This is a very poorly written comedy sketch show. Each episode has 5 or 6 skippable sketches and one or two that raised a small smile, or at least feel neatly observed. Too many sketches are paper thin premises which then outstay their welcome by three or four minutes.
When they have half decent material (the airport bit, the therapist), Mitchell & Webb's chemistry works well. But too often I was so bored. It's like watching a poorly written student show.
When they have half decent material (the airport bit, the therapist), Mitchell & Webb's chemistry works well. But too often I was so bored. It's like watching a poorly written student show.
Two action scenes aside, this is such a boring, poorly written film, with Tom Hardy phoning in his Eddie from the Venom films and Gareth Evans weirdly shooting in Cardiff and using gross amounts of distracting CGI to make it look like New York, with CG cars and L trains that move like toys. It all looks cheap. The dialogue is, like his Gangs Of London, snarling cliche after snarling cliche. Even if you turn off your brain expecting to enjoy the action, the two action scenes are over too quickly and are NOT up to the level of The Raid films. They feel lacking in ideas and suffer from eye-rolling infinite bullets and characters suddenly displaying black-belt level martial arts skills with no explanation or backstory explaining how they got them.
I'd skip and rewatch The Raid films.
I'd skip and rewatch The Raid films.
