Here’s something from Insty:
I haven’t seen any of them, of course, and am unlikely to do so — unless they’re on Netflix already, and even then…
…which brings me to a new movie — okay, series — that I have seen, watched over the past weekend, in fact.
My one-word review: Don’t.
My longer review: total and utter bullshit, with a paper-thin plot, an unbelievable “heroine”, and more holes in the plot (and action sequences) than in the average piece of Swiss cheese — and I apologize in advance for any slight against Swiss cheese.
Suffice it to say that the good guys all shoot like Jerry Miculek, while the bad guys (predictably) all shoot like guys who flunked out of Imperial Stormtrooper Beginners Marksmanship Qualification. And watching the 82-pound Keira Knightley fighting a Special Forces sniper hand-to-hand — and winning — is enough to make you reach for the barf bag.
There’s even a sub-plot where the good-guy assassin is (surprise, surprise) a homo with (of course) a Black lover. That this relationship is actually one of the more interesting and entertaining parts of the show should say it all.
I would go into greater detail, but that would require making an effort which this stupid series really does not deserve.
And to prove how totally crap this show is, Netflix has committed to Season 2 already.
Don’t say you haven’t been warned.
Keira is still cute as a button, though. Even if it’s 40-something cute. I didn’t realize she could look 15 years younger just by wearing bangs … just kidding, she can’t, but the show thinks she can … ridiculous. Beating up the sniper was the last draw for me, although the butt-sex nearly had me reaching for the remote.
Straw, dammit.
Another “powerful woman with a gun”, how novel.
All day yesterday, off n on, I glanced at GRIT TV’s Clint Eastwood marathon. All the old cowboy originals.
The old stuff STILL blows away all the silly assed new stuff.