Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Andrew Gold Action is a genre that hinges solely on entertainment value. Even if it's a blatantly dumb plot and objectively not that great, something like Machete or Bullet to the Head, you can still have fun watching it and appreciate it for its pure insanity. MI-5 lies on the opposite side of the action spectrum. It tries to be serious and dark and much smarter than it actually is. This sucks the atmosphere dry and leaves you with a bland, brooding, and tasteless thriller with little to no thrills. The movie starts off with a criminal escort gone wrong and develops into an espionage mission that can only be done by a specific agent who was kicked off the force, Will Holloway played by Kit Harrington. I can't fault any of the actors here because these characters are paper thin. They're just either giving orders or receiving orders or having secrets meetings or reciting some other form of lifeless expository dialogue for a majority of the movie. There's no chemistry between anyone, they have no development whatsoever. It just doesn't look like anyone is having fun. And with a script like that, how can you blame them.There is a sleek, glossy feel about MI-5, which is one of the few positive things about it. Kit Harrington is a badass in general and it's nice to see him in a modern action setting. Unfortunately, the action in this movie is so scarce and underwhelming, it's hard to even call it an action movie. Instead of exciting action sequences, we're left with cliché double-crosses and triple-crosses and back stabs that no one cares about because none of the characters are engaging in the first place.MI-5 is kind of like background music. It's not gripping and won't get your adrenaline pumping, but it's quite harmless to have on. It's just completely run-of-the-mill, linear storytelling that takes a page out of every spy book and streamlines it all into a two hour film. Kit Harrington can certainly be an action star, but this is not the proper vehicle to showcase his talents. MI-5 is a miss.

The Couchpotatoes This movie is really nothing special. I don't get why some people are so thrilled about it. It's actually a pretty boring movie with tons of pointless twists. Twists in a story are normally good but they have to be good twists. And that's not the case in Spooks: The Greater Good. At almost every twist you go like "uh yeah, whatever" or "pleasssse". And too much stupid twists are killing a story or make it completely uninteresting. About the cast there is not much to say. They stay with their script (that is bad by the way) but they act decently, without being the greatest actors ever. And one more thing, with spy movies it's always the same. You have that one betraying that one and then another betraying that one and so on... It's getting so boring at one point. And in this movie it's just the same. Conclussion for me Spooks: The Greater Good is highly overrated.

Zeech This film is so B-O-R-I-N-G it had to be British. So boring like the drizzle dreary bwitish weather itself. So boring I wrote this to fight off the insomnia attack while watching this turkey (and we all know the bwitish can't cook).What with the lines "what the bloody hell… ' each fulmination delivered with that repressed boarding school angst the top inbred upper class characters all have. They do have a black guy in there but he's such a coconut his massas probably don't even call him by name just whistle.No need for spoilers this turkey is well spoiled because it's about… surprise, surprise Arab terrorists. And not like Three Kings or The Siege or Traitor where the gray areas are used for brill dramatic effect.To make it appear somewhat original, you know what they did? Get this WASP on WASP competition! American CIA vs bwitish MI5. Too funny, I know the bwitish are pretty clueless bunch (I use to live there) but there is no competition folks it's been over since the US started using that drizzle dreary island as its largest aircraft carrier, over 30,000 US troops on British soil under American command. Uncle Sam runs things already. C'mon now MI5 it's over so stop embarrassing yourselves with this farce to stay independent while pottering around after naughty arabs with bombs.Sometimes a boring movie can be bearable with eye candy or a great backing track but not this lame duck. In the name of realism they used actors who look the part, that's inbred upper class twats from that diminishing gene pool who are not easy on the eye. And the backing track to this wooden chicken, is like intro to techno beats, you know the cheezy slow intro effects before the beats speed up.Woulda Coulda Shoulda worked if it was serious, and I mean serious in any way, seriously camp like James Bond (the boys at the club say you're not fooling anyone James), or a serious setting like the brilliant Hidden Agenda 1991, but then that's set in Ireland and too much for the BBC tea and biscuit brigade who need to believe their nanny state is taking care of them — yea right, tell that to the victims of their imperialist wars blessed by the worlds biggest welfare queen.If it's a TV spy series that's your bag, check out Homeland.

siderite The movie is about a rogue agent that has to save MI-5 for certain destruction by foreign powers. Sounds familiar? The film has multiple problems, starting with Harington's acting (sorry, John Snow) and ending with a way too predictable script. Every twist it had I saw coming for a mile away and there were things that happened that were quite clearly impossible in the timeframe of the movie.But what was probably the thing that stopped me most from enjoying this film was that it felt like a clone after American movies. Way before MI5 was taken over by the CIA, the British film industry seems to be taken over by Hollywood. Same cardboard characters, same complicated plots that somehow survive the battle unscathed, even if they are full of holes, same "human" behavior thing where the trained agent can't shoot and ask questions later, same grandiose villain and hero speeches and so on.Bottom line: as entertaining as an American blockbuster, with a slightly lower budget. I watched it, almost regretted it and soon I will forget all about it. Completely unmemorable.