donsanuk Reviews

Atlas (2024)

The 6 is for effects

[6/10 · 1 June 2024]

"Atlas" (2024) looks great, with good action scenes, but something is off. Characters are missing interesting backstories, and the actors do not suit their roles. Despite Jennifer Lopez's earnest portrayal of Atlas Shepherd, her performance feels out of place, and the supporting cast struggles to elevate the underdeveloped script.

The ending, which resembles a love story, feels out of place in the context of an AI-driven narrative. This attempt at adding emotional depth falls flat, making it feel disconnected.

Visually, the film boasts cool robots and superb VFX, which are impressive. However, the reliance on these elements cannot compensate for the lack of a cohesive story and good acting. The CGI, while occasionally stunning, often appears inconsistent, detracting from the overall experience.

AI and science fiction present some of the best opportunities to tackle deep philosophical topics, yet "Atlas" misses this point entirely. The film's exploration of AI and human relationships feels superficial, failing to engage with the profound questions it raises. In a genre ripe for introspection and innovation, "Atlas" unfortunately settles for mediocrity, leaving its potential untapped.

In conclusion, "Atlas" offers visual spectacle and action but falls short in character development and thematic depth. While it has moments of intrigue, it ultimately disappoints, unable to fully capitalize on its ambitious premise.

Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (2022)

Dragon Ball is awesome, 3D is ok, Cell Max is ridiculous

[8/10 · 4 October 2022]

Finally a new Dragon Ball movie! The world is waiting for new movies and more Dragon Ball Super episodes for years, seriously!

This movie is cool, the 3D choice is ok, but Cell Max just screaming all the time is ridiculous, he is sadly a big fail ...

Character development is nice! Delightful to see Son Gohan finally back

Animation looks good, despite the camera spinning around too much

But this final boss needs improvement, such a waste of potential. Cell is supposed to be elegant, clever, to absorb other characters to become stronger, not just a stupid animal screaming all the time, what went wrong with this??

Looking forward more episodes and movies asap.

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022)

Why is there a woman screaming in the show credits song instead of a normal song?

[5/10 · 2 September 2022]

It's cool to see Hulk getting some love, he is one of the best character of the MCU, and as seen in trailers, he appears a lot at the beginning of this show

It's ok to have a new female hero becoming a hulk

What is very sad and a big mistake is too erase the original Hulk so quickly The smart Hulk story deserved more

And mainly, this new Hulk becoming stronger than the original Hulk in only 5 minutes is an insult to Hulk, to the MCU, and to Hulk fans

What people love about Hulk is that he becomes an uncontrollable monster destroying everything, with a small part of humanity left, that creates jokes and emotions

This new Hulk is always in control and not a beast at all, just a tall strong person, just as low as Captain America, without what makes him cool

Bring back the Hulk beasts please.

Morbius (2022)

Sony, please do your movies with Marvel

[5/10 · 21 May 2022]

Actors, story, VFX, ... It's so sad that everything in Morbius is average.

It would be nice if they find a way to improve those movies like Venom franchise and this new Morbius.

The Batman (2022)

No, just no

[5/10 · 1 May 2022]

DC is so lost against Marvel that they try this new approach with Joker and Batman, but it's just not working.

I'm glad I didn't go the watch this 3 hours long movie at the cinema ...

Make Superman and Batman great again, with interconnected movies

Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck, Christian Bale, Gal Gadot were a good fit

Don't forget the light and colours!

The Guardians of Justice (Will Save You!) (2022– )

This is a masterpiece

[10/10 · 5 March 2022]

The Guardians of Justice is a masterpiece, with references to hundreds of other movies and universes. Actually there are references and genius ideas every 5 seconds, sometimes every second, it goes so fast, I get few hundreds of references in the first 2 episodes, and I'm sure I get only some of them.

Black mirror + Don't look up + The boys + 50 movies/shows like this all together do not equal 20 minutes of The Guardians of Justice, it's incredible.

The way they picture politics, power, relationships, super heroes, countries, fights - 1% of this could be a full successful TV show.

How they manage to mix genres, movie, cartoon, video games and many others is insanely well made.

There's so much here that it will be very hard for people to get it.

Yellowjackets (2021– )

Tree timelines at once is too much

[4/10 · 4 March 2022]

I read good things about Yellowjackets, gave it a try: episode one starts with tree timelines ... It's just too much, and not enough interesting to follow. I'll fast forward to episode 2, to give myself a chance to enjoy what other people enjoyed.

Heroes (II) (2006–2010)

Awesome but inconsistent

[10/10 · 26 January 2022]

Heroes was one of the best series at the time

Season 1 - Volume 1: 10/10

Season 2 - Volume 2 : 9/10 but inconsistent

Season 3 - Volume 3: 8/10 first episodes 6/10 then 9/10 once we're in

Season 3 - Volume 4: 6/10 Annoying

Season 4 - Volume 5: TBD/10.

Wanted (2008)

Better than John Wick!

[9/10 · 11 December 2021]

The action looks incredible, with some unique ideas.

Gun fights like John Wick, an OK story, it's a pleasant action movie to watch

Hope there will be a sequel a or a reboot.

Sex/Life (2021–2023)

Not enjoyable

[3/10 · 1 July 2021]

Actors are good and gorgeous The rythm is great Filming is nice But the story is wrong, I still wonder if it's immoral or plainly stupid.

Sherlock (2010–2017)

Bully is bad

[6/10 · 24 January 2021]

The way Sherlock bullies Watson is not fun not interesting.

People of Earth (2016–2017)

It should be forbidden to cancel series without ending

[8/10 · 18 December 2020]

People of earth is a nice, fun SF TV show Both seasons are good Sad that it was cancelled in the middle of the story Seriously, it should be forbidden to do this At least cancelled series could benefit from a unique last special episode with an ending

Deadly Class (2018–2019)

It doesn't make sense

[6/10 · 21 November 2020]

This mix of murderers teens and their daily life doesn't make sense ... Just the teenagers thing would be good, or just the assassins thing

Upload (2020– )

Clever and fun

[10/10 · 15 November 2020]

I gave Upload 10 stars after 20 minutes of watching (then finished the whole season 1 in 2 days) It's easy to watch but deep, clever and fun, I wish we had more content like this nowadays

The 100 (2014–2020)

Cannot compete with Lost

[5/10 · 5 February 2020]

I gave up after 10 episodes. It's not so exciting.

Knights of the Zodiac: Saint Seiya (2019–2022)

They miss the point of

[4/10 · 24 January 2020]

There was a reason why knights have to carry their armor. Saint Seiya is about efforts, sacrifices, hope. Shun is a sensitive man wearing pink for reasons. The cosmo is something that people acquire or discover deep inside them, not some substance that can be extracted or created with technology. This adaptation miss everything that was interesting in Saint Seiya, it's sad.

Messiah (2020)

Captivating

[10/10 · 11 January 2020]

Captivating I have rarely been so emotional and moved in front of a film lately. This movie makes you think a lot. We always wonder what will happen next. Action, politics, love, the role of media and social media ... It is brilliant from the start to the end. The contrast between civilizations, countries and religions is striking. The representation and understanding of the three religions chosen - Muslim, Christian, Jewish - seems respectful to my knowledge. Messiah studies humanity with an approach similar to The Leftovers : the most important is not if he is the Messiah or not, but the reaction of humanity. I wish the persons who did this would have done The Leftovers : Messiah is not a resounding failure like The Leftovers, is a remarkable success.

The Leftovers (2014–2017)

Unfortunately, The Leftovers is a waste if time

[1/10 · 23 December 2019]

Content : The leftovers is an overrated slow TV show about life and death, grief, purpose, religion, love, hopen beliefs. Form : A failed cerebral attempt at a twin-peakisation of Lost with non-resolved accumulating mysteries. Rhythm is bad and boring, most of the episodes are very annoying. I enjoyed a few scenes only in the whole show. I forced myself to watch the 3 seasons because some reviews said : "watch the entire show, don't give up after first season". Epic waste of time. I wanted to give up at each single episode at each season. If you want something deep and intelligent, better read a good book than watching this show.

• Dramatic music when nothing happens, everything is an attempt at making things more dramatic than it actually is
• I never wanted to know what will happen next, and never wanted to know more about the characters and story
• There is no endearing, memorable character
• Too many positive reviews saying that negative reviewers did not understand the purpose of the show : it's well understood, it's failed and annoying
• Esotericism, symbolism everywhere, but it's going no where. Authors are just leaving out their own ego, viewers are victims. Writers, please do this alone at home only

Studying grief, family disintegration, and reactions of people to events is interesting : the way it's done in this movie is bad.

Tips : if you still want to watch it, find the feature "1.5 speed" on your video viewer, at least you'll save a few hours of your life

Compare the pilot of Breaking Bad, Lost, and The Leftovers : no comment

Insatiable (2018–2019)

Watch season 1 and 2 before noting

[8/10 · 24 November 2019]

This show is surprising. Watch season 1 and 2 before noting

Raising Dion (2019–2022)

Politic, moral, boring

[5/10 · 26 October 2019]

Good idea, but execution is not too exciting. Not sure about actors

Saint Seiya: Heaven Chapter - Overture (2004)

Best Saint Seiya movie

[10/10 · 13 October 2019]

I just watched Saint Seiya Asgard, Poseidon, Hades 1 2 and 3, the 3D movie, Netflix serie, and the 5 movies. With Hades chapter 1: Sanctuary, this movie is the best of all. Graphics and animation are beautiful. Finally there is an enemy with personality. There's more in fights than just repetitive skills. #SPOILERS AHEAD# Athena is more important here, as well as Seiya, but not tge other bronze Saints : this is a change, a big focus on Seiya ans Saori. There are no power ups. It's not : all the bronze Saints give their hope to Seiya, and/or Athena gives him a power up : Athena even removes the power up from Seiya. By himself, without the help of anyone or anything like a gold armor or god blood, he becomes so powerful that even Athena fears that this naked Seiya could hurt the god. This time, there's not really an ending fight as usual, it's surprising and so cool. The 4 other movies were so annoying that this one is a diamond. We don't really know what happens at the end, sad that there's no other movies after this one. 9/10 but 10 to up the stats

Another Life (2019–2021)

This is really bad

[3/10 · 30 July 2019]

Science fiction is a good subject This serie is very bad