Cocked

Cocked, a failed pilot for a series about a gun-making family, starts off great, with a high-energy, stylishly filmed sequence at a gun show. Right away there's some nefarious action and some tension between hothead Jason Lee and his father, and I thought, this will be lots of fun.

And yet, as the series progressed I found myself never quite as engaged as I would hope. After a super start, the show just started to look like any other soap opera about a business dynasty, and by the end all the flashiness and given way to something pretty ordinary.

It wasn't bad, but if the series had been picked up, I wouldn't have bothered watching.

With Jason Lee on the poster, I expected a satirical comedy and in a way, the pilot doesn't disappoint.

Jason Lee's character does have a bit of his Earl Hickey personality, or at least you get the feeling of it, albeit being entirely different. The first episode leaves you impressed with the ending. It satires the Gun culture more than the laws or an individual itself, which is refreshing.

However, it doesn't quite give you the feeling of waiting for the next episode and bad as the other counterparts. If Amazon is going to pick only one Pilot, I doubt this will make its way through, unless Amazon picks top 3 or more.

-Cocked (2015) TV movie review: -Cocked follows a father and son who own a failing gun company, and need the help of their son/brother to fix their promotional adds, but they have to fix their family relationship before they can work together.

-Only a few things make this movie not completely forgettable, so I will try to think of those by the end.

-I didn't really care for the story, and it had some trouble focusing.

-The pace was fine. It's only an hour.

-The acting is not great. It has some guy, some older guy, and Earl from My Name Is Earl, who all do fine, but there is nothing special.

-The characters are all somewhat easy to root for and like when they start to work things out, but until then you don't really like any of them.

-The music was odd. Very Coen Brothers, which worked.

-Some of the editing was very Wes Anderson, which I liked.

-I knew there were a few things! Cocked is nothing special and nothing new, but it is entertaining, somewhat. It might be worth watching on Netflix, if you want to see Earl shoot large automatic pistols through bottles as fruit in slow motion set to classical music. That was a cool scene.

-It is rated-R for some language, not a lot, some nudity, not a lot, but enough, and some drug use.