AVOID the film "The American." Horrible.

I suffered thru "The American" this week, on Netflix, staring George Clooney. I suspected correctly that it would be atrocious, and it was. The only redeeming quality which you can skip thru the film to see is some very generous female nudity... The gun stuff is so poorly done.

Clooney plays an assassin, who kills one guy sent to kill him. Clooney, armed with a PPK, and the assassin armed with some long gun. Clooney of course doesn't take the superior weapon from dead assassin #1, but then stalks assassin #2 and gets him with the same anemic PPK. Later, Clooney mail orders and receives a disassembled Mini 14 and painstakingly assembles it. In Italy, no less. No explanation on how he acquires a bunch of ammo or other key parts. He calls it an M14. Then he builds and threads a silencer from common parts in found in an auto garage.

Some other atrociously bad gun stuff. Test fires the gun something like 5 times and calls it good, which apparently was enough to test accuracy and reliability and dial in the scope. Late in the film, something really really dumb happens with the rifle. I'll leave the spoiler in case you want to torture yourself. Among the worst "serious" films using guns as a main device. "The Assassin" is truly remarkable at how bad it is.

Yeah, "The American" was terrible. Don't bother.

Even the 3rd season of "Shooter" is starting to lose me. More Hollywood-style operating and gunplay. You really have to suspend disbelief, which is difficult for me. Maybe I just need to stick to non-fiction/documentaries.

The wife has started watching Nurse Jackie lately.
I find it mildly entertaining

That, along with the shaky camera that gives some of us motion sickness are a real bummer. It could have been such a good show...

She definitely has zero fucks to give.

Not Netflix but upcoming movies.

Trying to enjoy Designated Survivor. Was doingbgood until they suddenly started in on gun control. One lie and bullshit story after another. Fake news and misinformation pissing me off.

Ah yes ... my experience exactly.

Damnation is pretty decent, watched 9 episodes in two days. Basically about bank corruption in the 30s that drove farmers to strike. Has a early days of unions forming kinda feeling to it.

Another Life



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Not much of a review, amigo.
Does that mean it's a really funny comedy or that it was a waste of electricity to make it?

I'm struggling with the thread title.

Possible the worst show ever. I mean good lord, it's got it all. I only watched an episode and a half. I will leave the real reviews to others. Avoid.

Turd. I got less than 20 minutes in, with much fast-forwarding, and gave up. Horrible.

The Great Hack

Yep, That is ALL the review anyone needs.

Didn't we used to have a thread with Netflix, Prime, etc shows that DO suck?