Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

caramia2002 I found this on Netflix and the reviews were fairly good, although it was plain that Spader was carrying this one and many of the plot lines were fantastical. But in the first 5 minutes I watched, it was clear that the acting and writing were less than network (ABC, NBC, CBS) average. Wooden and cliche writing. The beauty of Spader, in his youth, was that he looked like a sweet, cute, harmless geek...until...he opened his mouth. He could smirk and talk creepy amazing and original performance after performance. But now that he is bald, with a generic face (IS that even him?), his trademark personality falls flat (IS that even him?). Or was it this stinker of a script and that fact that he is phoning it in? I can't say that I have much patience, with a very few exceptions, with network series, but even so, this is just another of the least common denominator network shows which pander to the "newspaper" crowd (it it said that newspapers are written for a 4th grade reading level, or something like that).

graduatedan I don't like police procedurals. I mean, I like the procedural part of the show, but most times, I dislike the characters who populate these dramas. They tend to be unsympathetic, dispassionate martinets who see the world in black and white and either punch or shoot their way through an episode. I make this admission in order to give weight to my admiration for the Blacklist, which most certainly is a police procedural, but is so much more than that. I'm kept alertly amused by the byzantine twists and turns of the plots. I genuinely like the characters in this programme, even Donald Ressler who comes closest to the stereotypical punch and shoot fellows I mentioned earlier. Of all the characters in the show, he's the one that has evolved the most over the last five years . The real beauty of the show lies in its careful examination of the nature of morality, exemplified, of course in Raymond Reddington. Reddington is a criminal and a killer, but is capable of great kindness. That dichotomy is the meat of the blacklist. How can we empathize with such a man? How, indeed. In this case, his love for Elizabeth Keen and his willingness to give the FBI team information that puts bad people away puts a human face to his frequently monstrous behaviour. In the end, bad guys are caught and we learn a little more about the enduring mystery of Ramond Reddington. This is a gripping, well written, well acted drama that I look forward to seeing each week.

Iainbr I love this show but the writing has turned vigorously to the left as the seasons progressed. From fundamentalist Christian preachers, neo-nazis, the gun lobby cop/black violence and toxic masculinity no SJW talking point has been spared. As someone who believes in that the extreme left and right are equally toxic. But to Hollywood anyone left of Marx (not Groucho) is an enemy of the Socialist State of Hollywood is evil beyond comprehension. Please please please balance your writing by introducing episodes highting the real perils of embracing the anti social philosophies of BLM, Antifa, SPLC and Planned Parenthood.But having said that the do do a good job separating the horrors of fundamental Islam from the true humanity of the Muslim majority. Looking forward to some balanced writing in S6.

amreos It's little bit of confusing , only the performance of the main actor what make this fun, there are many contruduction in this show but i like Raymond's stories