bluegrassglen Reviews

Unhuman (2022)

Who are we supposed to root for in this?

[4/10 · 9 June 2022]

I can't say much without giving spoilers but my title says it. It's hard to like a movie when it makes you walk away hating everyone.

And the funniest character is the first to die! WTF! (not a spoiler due to subjectivity and no specifics)

Elves (2021)

The obvious question finally asked

[3/10 · 3 December 2021]

As with all of these common sense defying bad shows there's always an obvious thing nobody does, says, or asks that everyone watching is screaming at the screen in bewilderment. I raised my rating from 2 stars to 3 stars based exclusively on the fact that they actually had a character finally say the obvious thing. It took until episode 5 but finally, after the visitors are warned and ordered to do something for some reason a dozen times with no question, the teen son finally says, "then explain it." If anyone had said that in the first episode the series would have ended episode 2 with the parents saying, "Well why didn't you say so?" The End.

Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)

I can't suspend disbelief enough to buy this story

[3/10 · 27 May 2021]

I've never seen such a lazily written story. I'm very good at suspending disbelief in order to enjoy a movie. I do my damnedest to rationalize things and not nitpick all the holes and logical inconsistencies. But I just had to throw my hands up in frustration and give up by the halfway point of this movie. The things they expect us to buy into are ridiculous. Forest fire watchtowers built with no lightning protection. A man engulfed in flames who comes away without even a singed hair much less the very clothes that were burning on him 10 seconds earlier. Lightning storms producing bolts that strike ground every second in an open field rather than the trees a few dozen yards away. The same bolts chasing the people until they finally hit one then stop immediately their job now done. Except the person struck just gets up and walks away. And the biggest of all: The story begins with a father fleeing with his son from assassins trying to kill him to stop him from exposing the criminal accounting records. His plan is to drive across the country THEN contact the press with his evidence. Why drive across country first? Better yet, why not just publish everything to the internet as soon as he knows they're coming for him? I guess the producers didn't have money for writers after paying AJ.

In the Shadow of the Moon (2019)

Hate speech shouldn't be protected by the right to free speech

[2/10 · 28 September 2019]

Unless, of course, you hate the people the owners of the time machines hate too. That's obviously different.