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Trailblazers (2016)
Overly dramatic and silly
I'm struggling to write this review because I don't know what to begin criticizing first. The show will try to convince you that your best guide into a remote area is someone who has never been there before, as long as they have military training! Why take a guide with climbing or mountaineering experience, when you can take a navy seal! But there's more! How remote are these areas really? Take for example the El Reventador episode; there is a hostel at the bottom of the volcano and a hiking trail that takes you half way up. There is detailed route information on how to get to hike to the cone in six hours that anyone can google, yet this show will try to convince you that these guys are "trail blazers." Camera crew seems to be above the "expert" guides in the most difficult of places, as the guides proclaim to be the first to reach these spots. Camera is constantly shaken, rocks thrown down and angles distorted to make it seems like these guys are constantly in danger. If there are people are watching these episodes from start to finish, they've certainly accomplished something more challenging than these "trailblazers."
Underworld: Evolution (2006)
Terrible
Underworld: Evolution is terrible.
I'm a huge fan of the Underworld characters, especially Kate Beckinsale's hot kick-ass vampire chick, dressed in tight fitting black latex that neatly shows off her curves with the slightest hint of light and movement. The sets in the first one were pretty cool and I think they get a little better in the sequel. That's about all the positives for this film. What a shame.
I was hoping it would score high on the fighting sequences, but it was pretty poor in that department. There are some neat shots, but most of it is pretty quick, hard to follow and uninteresting. There's a whole bunch of characters in this movie that weren't in the first, but they get killed off as quickly as they're introduced. As much as I want to see Kate Beckinsale in the costume that she wears in this movie, she's in every scene! If they just had a two hour slideshow of Kate Beckinsale stills I might have been less disappointed. At least that way I wouldn't have to try to follow one of the worst scripts ever written for this genre. There's more character development in children's stories.
There's a hint at a third Underworld movie. My suggestion to the director would be to put the writers of this one in it and have them torn apart in a brutal and gruesome action scene. That and perhaps some Kate Beckinsale nudity might make me want to see a third installment.
The Island (2005)
Sigh
I didn't expect much from the movie aside from maybe some neat special effects. It opened really well and it got better and better, and I started to think "this is going to be an awesome movie". The first half of the movie I would give a nine out of ten. Then stupid things started happening. It went from a brilliant believable futuristic story to a ridiculous car chase beat all odds while dodging hundreds of bullets that happen to miss by an inch every time movie that just wouldn't end, just like this sentence. Such a shame, it's like the director lost interest or got drunk. Just because of the first half, I'm giving it a seven out of ten. If I was to just rate the second half I'd have trouble giving it a five.
War of the Worlds (2005)
Why all the rave?
I don't understand the rave behind this movie. The trailer for the movie was good, but somewhat misleading as it doesn't show much. The papers read "the critics are raving". The IMDb rating was 7/10. I went into this movie expecting to be somewhat satisfied. I wasn't.
This movie is terrible. It is possibly the worst movie of the year. Bad script, bad acting, bad special effects, just all together bad. I had an urge to leave the movie half way through, and that hasn't happened to me very often.
I have not seen the original, so maybe I'm missing something. I would not recommend this movie. If you are curious about it, wait until it comes out on TV.