OK, fine that the quotas are fulfilled: black female, Hispanic female, Asian female, black male (who is chief, of course), white male. Nothing wrong with that, per se, but we should have known where it was going.
And, predictably, they pushed it over the edge, with yet another black male, who is Mormon, and turns out to also be homosexual, and starts passionately kissing another white male. Set off. We're done with it.
Ok movie, but they just had to weave the "trans" false doctrine in there, which was completely unnecessary to the film.
Quite an accomplishment: A movie, with bathroom humor that only Junior high boys might get a kick out of. Yet it's rated R because it's too vile, vulgar, and bloody for them to see.
Finally, after all these years, I watched it. Very good indeed, but do we really need numerous homosexual rapes in every prison movie? Disgusting.
Are we supposed to conclude that homosexuals are over-represented in the criminal population? Or that normal guys can CHOOSE to become homosexuals? But "oh no!" we're not supposed to think either of those things!
Finally just watched it last night. The first 1 1/2 hours were tense and building pretty well, in spite of some improbable "oh come on" moments. Many things didn't fit together very well.
Last half hour was a meaningless "so what?" ending, and asking myself, "I watched this why?" No resolution.
Another one of those movies we're supposed to think is great because expert movie reviewers told us to. Who told them?
I just have to say at the opening, a sheriff or deputy has the bad guy in handcuffs in the sheriff's office, but NOT in a jail cell, and sits down at his desk to make a phone call with his back to the killer. What would he think is going to happen? That's one example.
Halfway through the first season, the three soap opera romantic interludes are getting in the way of the story. When even my wife comments on it, I know my observation is valid on that point. The story (which is why people are watching it in the first place) doesn't move along.
Now there's something we just don't get enough of - being preached to about oppressor & victim classes, and discrimination.
After establishing a following with a pretty good 1st season, and an initial episode of the 2nd, someone weaseled their way over to the punch bowl and dropped a turd in it.
Not sure if this is a hit & run, one-off, or if this is what they really intended the series to be about. I guess we must decide.
If my mind wanders, even during fight scenes, it's a bad sign that they're too long and repetitive.
Good clean spectacular action movie. And somehow, they were able to do it without constant profanity, irrelevant sex, and insulting the audience with eye-rolling woke messaging. See, it can be done.
Interesting idea, but very slow moving. Completely unnecessary, irrelevant, cringe-worthy, homosexual relationship involving Christopher Walken & John Turturro. But they have to fulfill the woke requirements.