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People are saying that the modern sequel Bloodlines makes this look like a master piece but I actually preferred that movie after watching this one after.

It started off okey but just went a bit weird. I think it was Edward Furlongs character, he starts off like a seemingly normal kid that's had/has some difficult struggles, at some point in the movie his character just changed, he starts walking around with a deranged grin on his face, it seemed so odd that it took me out of the movie. I'm going to have to watch American History X or something after just to remind myself that he can actually act. Pretty sure this must have been a directional choice. I.e some lines of dialogue just seem to come out of nowhere, not reflecting how you currently felt the mood was going.

At least with bloodlines they took a more serious approach and tried to expand a little on the original story, this just seems like a whacky take on the concept.

I nearly gave it less than a 4 rating but as it started off ok I'm being a little more generous.

I watched the first three episodes which my housemates baby in the background being constantly noisy, which is fine she's very cute and it's great to hear her trying to vocalise things, though this soon turned to be constant wailing and I had to leave to the room and watch it else where, so I carried on upstairs and finished episode three. At this point I kind of felt unfulfilled by the whole thing, it wasn't until later I sat and rewatched these three on my own in darkness in a more focused state, and I loved it. It's very character driven and dialogue based, it's very easy to miss out on simple nuances. It's not fast moving, at least at the start it's not, but when you're focused, there's loads to keep you engaged and the episodes actually go pretty fast. The characters are very well written as is the story that unfolds, there's depth to everything. Look at shows like Better Call Saul, this started off very slow and was character driven and it turned out to be one of the most successful ones on Netflix with plenty of action, another show that needed investment early on.

Anyway whomever says it's boring probably just isn't giving it the focus it deserves and are selling them selves short, I think this is going to turn out to be an amazing series if you give it the right attention early on.

I think part of the problem for some people is that they expect so much from a Star Wars show, we tend to want fast pacing, constant action and the need to see familiar things, there wasn't too much familiarity in the first three episodes, no storm troopers, no Jedi, no lightsabers, no star destroyers, no space battles etc, and the trailers hyped some of these things up a lot, but.. the Empire stuff's coming, it's just early on, like I said, just give it a chance and I'm sure it'll deliver on more than enough.

I watched this at the cinema, it started off pretty good, there were moments where I thought "This is awesome".. it seemed to be a nice sequel to the first two movies with the inclusion of the original theme music. But... then it just started to get silly.. half way through the movie I was thinking "this is just a mess, so many things happening, so many farcical moments.. and unrealistic plot points.. It's like the director was making a parody of the franchise rather than a sequel.. such a shame, the action scenes and visual effects were on point.. it could have been a great movie, the production team did a great job.. but the writing and direction made it flop!!