SmugKitZine Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Nicolas Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

william-03717 Many others have either said this is awful or it's great. Not many in the middle, but that's where I am. Good premise, but lots of stupid stuff. Towards the beginning. the main character escapes the hospital by nearly killing the nurse. He is then seen in town acting like a normal investigator, and everyone seemingly accepts this. No arrest, no more chasing or trying to convince him to go back to the hospital. In fact, he actually does go back to hospital several times for other reasons, but they just let him wander around freely! Nothing is locked up!When the character finds the decomposing corpse, the sheriff tells him that he's the main suspect, despite having been "in town" for only 2 days and the corpse was almost entirely decomposed.There are supposed to be cameras and microphones everywhere, yet the characters seemingly avoid this by just walking around. They are able to meet in secret or go on wilderness excursions without anyone being the wiser. The microphones don't seem to be very strong as characters continue to have conversations above normal volume.The main character sacrificed himself to blow up the elevator at the end of season 1, in order to save everyone else. That was unnecessary as he could have done the same thing without dying himself. As the others escaped the elevator and the monsters were chasing them up the shaft, the main character and his wife had time to exchange a conversation and a very long hug (before everyone had yet to escape out of the elevator - so they decided to stop helping others in order to stare at each other for a few seconds).I liked the mystery from the beginning, but many characters were all too willing to give hints about the reality of the situation, despite the consequences being a sliced throat in front of the whole town.Still, I found the story somewhat compelling. However, I am an all or nothing person, and I continue watching shows even as the devolve into lesser versions of themselves. Season 2 appears set up to be a repeat of Season 1, just with the next generation. I hope it has some saving aspects after reading about Season 2 being so horrible.I noticed another review saying that if you ignore the little plot holes, you can actually get some kind of enjoyment from this. I agree.

ulricjoh I devoured the trilogy of books in a matter of days - the writing style and the story were excellent. *IF* you have the chance to get the books - read them before watching the TV show - they're so much better.I was so looking forward to seeing how the books were made into film.What a massive disappointment. The movies took a huge diversion from the original story. The first book covered almost all of the 3 books.I've just started to watch the second season and it's so confusing - has zero relationship to either book 2 or 3 and it's not easy to follow.I'm not even sure that I'll watch the rest of S2 given how this is starting to pan out.

villysmagicworld5 I had no great expectations upon watching this series. I was just looking for something fun to watch. And boy, did they deliver! This starts as something and then it goes on being something completely different, something utterly mind blowing. What's unique about this series is the ethical complications that are intertwined in the story. I'm not sure if people get this, or they think they are watching just another sci-fi series, but it's pretty thick in moral dilemmas with no easy way outs. Everyone keeps saying that season 2 was disappointing because the main characters all stepped out of the picture. But I say this is not about the life of Ethan Burke or his family, it never was. It is a sociological treatise if you like, about living in an experimental town. About fascism, conformity, greater good, evolution, animal ethics, etc etc. It covers a pretty dense theme base and I was very excited to having watched this. In my opinion season 2 is even better than season 1, though it's being made clear that there;s no more that mystery film you were watching. Questions remain, that's for sure, but we can no longer categorize this as a mystery series. I just kept thinking, what if Abbies are no evolutionary anomaly, but actually a step up from humanity? The idea is pretty old, older than biblical: Sodom and Gomorrah, Noah's ark, etc etc. Every civilization has a myth where humanity has strayed so badly that they only way to fix its errors is to wipe out and write on a clean slate. So maybe the Abbies are just the next step in evolution, like homo sapiens came out of the previous kind. People come out more evolved emotionally, they are altruistic, they empathize. Not everything is about intelligence. So maybe the Abbies are to begin civilization again from zero- a better, more humane civilization, and now that a place like Wayward Pines came to be, and humans are spreading like syphilis again, that will not possible. At least not without a fight. I hope there will be a season 3, because we've only just started to get a grip on what's really going on and I have great expectations from now on.There are a few things that could be better about this film, and by that I mean mainly acting. And some dialogues. That's no serious damage though, if you're into problematics and ethics you' ll love this one.

info-03957 (I gave the first season a six -- though partly because I am in love with Carla Gugino and would go live where she is had it not got vetoed by the wife and kids -- and the second season got a 0 since I couldn't get through the first episode.)I liked the premise very much, it should have great potential, if you're just looking for some easy entertainment and don't sit there counting every last bullet everybody fires. It clearly isn't the type of thing that can be drawn out endlessly though, as I think they tried to do here.The first season was enjoyable a lot of the time, albeit I repeated too often: why would you say that? why don't you explain yourself? why don't you go there? why would you conclude that? how do you not see that flaw in that???The second season is nothing but a violation of rationale from the outset, so you don't even bother asking the questions.Years ago I probably would never have watched something this south of a decent standard and I can't tell if it is because I am of an older generation or if its our options that have diminished.Truth is I think I am becoming more and more cynical of Hollywood productions in general. I don't believe it's their artists (actors, writers, etc.) who lack talent or intelligence, but there is something horrible that comes through in most shows eventually.