Reviews

I swear it's like I'm not watching the same show anymore at all. I feel like the writing has just taken a complete nosedive since this new season debuted. Something I was able to overlook during the first half of the season, expecting it to pick up during the second half, but this episode really just broke my optimism. For one, why is the voice acting so stiff? It's painfully obvious that none of the voice actors actually recorded their lines together, every conversation between characters in this episode feels off. It really deflates any attempt to try and build relationships between these characters. And on the subject of characters I want to talk about the Immortal, cause he is being handled so poorly. He has had essentially no development as a character, and it makes every scene with him all the more frustrating when the writers try to imply depth to his character despite us not witnessing anything of that sort. At first I thought the Immortal was going to be more of an antagonistic force to Invincible, but now I really have no idea what they are doing with him, and he just feels like some random superhero, rather than the team leader and only survivor of the original guardians of the globe. But what I think really pissed me off the most about this episode is the ending. Allen returns for like the last 5 minutes of the episode and just drops a ton of exposition. Remember Thaddeus, Allen's boss from like episode 3, well turns out he's actually a viltrumite. Is there any like reveal or anything, no we (the audience) just get told this by Allen. Also wait, how is Allen alive??? Oh, he just is. I kid you not the reasoning was pretty much, Oh when I get killed I actually get stronger. Idk, maybe I'm being nitpicky and overly critical, but I can't help but feel that everything about this show just feels lazier this season, and I honestly doubt the last two episodes can save the rest of this show for me personally.

This episode works both as a catch-up/review of the events of last season and also sets up some stuff for the future. I enjoyed most of the stuff having to do with Mark and how he has been recovering. This episode also introduces a new character called Angstrom, and that's where my issues begin. For one I feel like introducing a multiverse brings up a lot of issues (unlimited universes means unlimited solutions/cures/weapons/etc.), and while they try to explain why Angstrom can't just use the multiverse to get like a Omniman killer or something, it feels flimsy at best. Also A lot of exposition dumping happens throughout the Angstrom plot which is interesting but also kinda forced. I think the Guardians of the Globe stuff was kind of brief. They reintroduce immortal as leader of the team and demote robot who is adjusting to the new body. Again not much on that front but will probably get explored in the future. So again, while I did like this episode, it mostly felt like a reintroduction into the universe, while also setting up some of what's to come, rather than an actual story.

NOTHING HAPPENS IN THIS MOVIE. There are no characters, there is no story, there is no action, there are no stakes, there is no moral or message or point. THERE IS NO POINT TO THIS MOVIE.

Every character are stiff one dimensional pieces of cardboard. About 60% of this movie is just Denzel sitting around in a town in Italy doing jack becoming seen as "one of them". The villains are just some stereotypical mafia guys who are so laughably evil in cruel it's not even fun to hate them.

The action in this movie is sooooooooo brief too. Denzel is pretty much never in danger and always just quickly assassinates the villians.

And easily the worst part of this movie is the climax, because just when things are seeming to start ramping up, the movie is just over. Basically the big mafia boss comes to the town and threatens everyone because Denzel killed his brother in an earlier scene. So at this point you think there might finally be some big action payoff at the end. Nope. Instead what happens is Denzel just magically teleports to the bad guy's house (which he never knew the location of but whatever) and assasinates every guard one by one and then the boss without any sort of struggle. And that's it. He basically just kills everyone with no struggle. In a good movie, this kind of big bad mafia villian would be made to seem untouchable, and it would be an actual struggle for are hero to get to them and kill them. But in the Equalizer 3 are hero just kills a dozen men with no problem. There is no stakes no struggle no sense of urgency. You have no reason to be invested because at no point do you feel like there is any sort of danger.

This was a pretty solid ending overall, Jane was the killer, but I can't help feeling it was kind of rushed. It takes 15 minutes for the Jane to be revealed and subsequently defeated. The last 10 minutes were essentially just an epilogue of sorts and the other 5 were set up for the next season. There are some pretty funny bits, like brozos being paralyzed throughout the conflict, but besides that it was kind of underwhelming. I feel like the better option for the murder was the original fake out. But Jane is fine. The very end is super weird because it is unclear if mable actually stabbed bunny or bunny was already stabbed. It's also weird that Charles and Oliver are arrested to even though they clearly have nothing to do with what happened. Anyways very confusing but still enjoyable ending.

Alex and Cory and that whole book stuff was really good, and Cory's B plot is really good. But everything outside of that is super meh to bad. Stella getting randomly attacked and yako defending her was just so random. Ik this happens in real life, but it just seems so out of place pointless in the episode. Also the yako B plot about the spirit animal thing is still stupid. Like who actually cares. And I have always felt weird about making Bradley Jackson lesbian. It just feels like they are trying to do a thousand social/political issues and it just feels for show. Also Mitch plot is super boring and weirdly sympathetic.

This was an extremely bold undertaking. Having an episode entirely without dialogue, you expect things to get boring but no. This was by far one of the most engaging and at times intense episodes yet. The camera work was also really good all the time. The plot was fantastic and the story telling was flawless. But the main highlight was the main character of this episode. Not only was he super compelling and very much put a wrench and everything. A fantastic episode.

SPOILER WARNING Evil morty is back and I like this version of him way better than any of the rick and morty theories before. The "Curve" explains why the infinite is so consistent with Rick and Mortys and actually makes sense. Ricks backstory is cool. The episode is very well written and all the characters feel like themselves. But the only problem I do have with this is that the episode feels just to rush. Especially in the last half basically everything is revealed all at once and its just an information overload. It does feel like they are just trying to cleanly but quickly wrap up this story arc they had created but still, I feel like the 2 part aspect of this was kind of wasted seeing as the last episode had basically nothing to do with this episode besides a funny gag at the beginning. This single episode should have definitely been stretched out for both those episodes, but still it is pretty great. Overall this episode nicely wraps up an important plot line perhaps a little to fast.