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New Amsterdam: Falling (2023)
Too much unreal nonsense
In general I like this show. Or did. At first I was upset this was the last season, but with this episode I'm sort of glad it's over soon. I'll watch to the end, but the show has become way too preachy and pressing too hard on their agenda.
This episode in particular has way too many unrealistic story lines and factually atrocious inaccuracies. I don't want to put spoilers as it is still newer.
Some how they found one of the most annoying guys from Law&Order to play an equally annoying role in this episode. Not to mention that his role was never explained nor did his character do anything other than be super-annoying. How or why he needed to do what he did was never wrapped up, or even remotely explained.
Knowing (2009)
Knowing - knowing enough. It to watch.
The movie starts out interestingly enough. We see some kids working in their school room and a teacher talking about a time capsule. Makes sense - the trailer talks about knowing about impending disasters and what would you do. There were several places where it seemed like there were opportunities to do so much more with the movie and the mysterious number sequences he uncovers, however the movie seems to miss every opportunity at suspense and settle for cheap every chance they can. Here's a few details:
Cage plays an MIT astro-physicist although he never lives up to this potential. Throughout the movie he does a surprising amount of stupid things.
Random stupidity - the kids sing "This little light of mine!" a children's Christian gospel song - being sung at a public school in Massachusetts - the most liberal state in the union and nobody was there from the ACLU taking exception
There is a plane crash that happens just after he makes an interesting discovery regarding the number sequence, and he attempts in vain to save several burning passengers. Eventually the first responders tell him to go away - which he does with little discussion or drama.
We spend untold minutes of screentime wandering around in the dark with diver quality flashlights ala X-files.
Cage's kid has some wild dream that, as near as I could tell, was a test of the special effects crew's capabilities but little else.
At one point he makes a call to the FBI to warn them of what will happen instead of stating: "I am an MIT professor, please listen to me when I tell you something" which could have led to all manner of intrigue and discussion regarding the number sequences, what had happened, what will happen, etc. instead, he yells into a random pay-phone "something will happen at location X tomorrow - get everyone away or they will die" which would clearly put him on the terrorist watch list.
Later in the sequence he walks up to a random cop and asks why they haven't cleared the area - surprise all law enforcement starts chasing him
When chasing and being chased in the subway he is cornered by several cops, he states rather bluntly: "you should arrest him" and points to the person he is chasing, they instantly unfocus on Cage and focus on the other guy.
He frequently abandons the children in his charge to go investigate random things.
The end of the movie was off scale high on the stupid meter. With about 20 minutes left in the movie and no realistic ending, we throw in a random car chase where a woman essentially kidnaps his son and in the middle of the chase Cage pauses in his pursuit of his CHILD to spend a few minutes with the now dead woman he has known for 36 hours, this enables him to see an intriguing black rock
Finally, we go completely implausible with an ending involving aliens rescuing mere earthlings from impending disaster and over the top stupid dialog between Cage and his son.
We also have a token reference to Noah - 2x2 animals and some (I think) reference to "The Matrix" with two white rabbits.
Finally, while the entire movie is set in and around Boston, when disaster strikes big time - New York City is what we see - hello continuity department where are you? Poor New York City- always the place to destroy - Independence Day, Armageddon, Sudden Impact, The Day After Tomorrow, I'm sure there many others.
I'm sure there are more specific stupid things - but that's all I can think of right now.
Perfect Plan (2010)
Unthinking characters. Needless plot twists.
The opening two minutes seem intriguing. Puzzling for then next 40 minutes. Then all kinds of stupid are unveiled. A lot of twists. The last 20 minutes I can say we were entertained. Not thrilled, Just laughing at the unbelievable nonsense.