lizzieqever Reviews

Murdoch Mysteries: Do The Right Thing Part 2 (2023) Season 17, Episode 2

How a great show has fallen!

[1/10 · 27 May 2024]

The show started off awesome the first few seasons, great episodes, great mysteries. It would be an exaggeration to say the show was even a shadow of its for herself. This episode felt like a spoof. An absolutely ridiculous plot, so stupid it must be on reason.

I really like mystery shows I probably would've quit on this one a while ago. I'm only into my episode of season two but if they keep on pumping out ridiculous episodes like this, I'll be continuing to watch.

If you want to watch Murdoch mysteries and you haven't seen very many yet I would just start off with season one. Phenomenal first five or six seasons, started to waiver maybe season seven or eight but still pretty solid. The shows been out of gas for three or four years and just getting worse. I would actually think it's probably not too far from being canceled, but I might underestimate what the public will put up with.

One More Shot (2024)

Complete dumpster fire

[1/10 · 11 May 2024]

Rarely have I seen a movie this bad. Mystery science theater worthy. I suppose entertaining from that standpoint if you want something to laugh at.

More plot holes than a piece of Swiss cheese. Characters act stupidly. Evil henchmen stand still and watch action until it's time for them to get killed. Couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. I seriously think my 10-year-old could shoot better in some of the bad guys.

Absolutely atrocious awful camera angles. Gives you a headache, watching it. Hard to even follow the crazy plot. Bad guys seemingly take over an airport, which is completely abandoned..

Avoid unless you wanna laugh at a really really bad movie.

Midsomer Murders: Ghosts of Christmas Past (2004) Season 7, Episode 7

Good mystery but fairly easy to solve

[9/10 · 4 May 2024]

I like this one, it was a solid mystery, good story. It's also a very solvable mystery, if you pay attention, one shouldn't have any difficulty solving it or much, especially if you watch a lot of mysteries. I figured this one out probably 50 minutes in.

Not too much else to say, they do a good job of weaving the holidays or the holiday into the story. Burnaby is cool as usable, polite, yet assertive.

The start on this one is a little bit slow. The actual first murder takes a while to occur, Or I should say the first attempted murder. I don't know that should be considered a spoiler, but if one considers the first attempt at murder, there's only one obvious suspect could have The perpetrator.

Rather sympathetic killer.

Death in Paradise: Episode #13.8 (2024) Season 13, Episode 8

Very convoluted episode.

[2/10 · 5 April 2024]

Normally these are really high quality mysteries. This one was really a stinker. So many plot holes.

Why did the murder victim have to pay the third guy on the plane $50k? He really didn't have to pay anyone I live in the pilot. And why did they all lie about it? What's the point of that? The guy got off the plane. Just tell the police the guy got off the plane. Why in the world would the pilot not do that? He had his plain impounded all he had to do was just say the guy got off the plane.

Then the actual murderer brings a silencer with them apparently to use with the gun that his wife just fired. Why in the world would he have a silencer with him and not a gun? Why would the guy who the Wife shot at and sit there for two minutes doing nothing? Wouldn't you go grab the gun that she dropped wouldn't get away maybe? You can't have plot twist just have plot twists. Unless it's thought out and all fits together it's stupid!

Let's hope this is a one off piece of bad writing.

Midsomer Murders: Book of the Dead (2023) Season 24, Episode 2

Another excellent mystery

[8/10 · 18 February 2024]

This was a good mystery. I did guess the killer at the very end, but not until like a minute before the reveal.

Spoilers ahead...

One thing I liked about this mystery was at one point I was suspecting a female, but then the vicar was viciously drowned. I was thinking to myself they better not make the killer a female because there's no way any of the women that were possible suspects could've pulled off this drowning that the killer had to be pretty much one of a couple of men that were suspects.

I will say, I also thought very early on that this murder was going to be not about the treasure, but about the death that took place earlier. That didn't end up being the case. Obviously, the treasure was just a red herring, but that was pretty cool. Overall well done and entertaining.

Midsomer Murders: The Devil's Work (2023) Season 24, Episode 1

Good solid episode.

[9/10 · 17 February 2024]

A good solid and very solvable mystery for the opening of this season. Nice location for filling, good acting. A crisp, tight script, a good number of suspects.

You have to pay attention to solve the mystery, but if you follow motive, and what was going on, it should lead you to the killer. It wasn't too hard to figure out, they did do the reveal a little early in the movie.

What is I thought Barnaby was real understanding of the murderer at the end, allowing the murderer to linger in their garden. I don't think I would've been quite as understanding of someone who would killed so many.

Overall, though an excellent effort.

Death in Paradise: A Personal Murder (2016) Season 5, Episode 4

A real stinker!!

[3/10 · 16 February 2024]

I'll get right into spoilers with this review. I like it when my who done it realistic. This one just really felt stupid. You've got three old and experience men, who've had 45 years to contemplate all the nuances of a crime they committed. And they get scared and digging up the body? That is ridiculous. None of them thought "Hey, They might be trying to scare us into showing where the body is?" None of them considered we might be followed? That's stupid and frankly not believable. Whoever wrote this plot didn't put a lot of thought into it in my opinion. Also, I'm not exactly sure how you would've figured out who did it other than I suppose they had an argument with the person before he died. It felt more like a guess at the end.

Another thing this was in a jungle and 45 years ago. Do writers understand what a jungle is? These men probably hadn't been back there in 45 years where they buried the body. Do you think they made a habit of walking back there and checking it out? Did anyone think how much the area would it changed a jungle in 45 years? I would think it would be more likely they wouldn't have any idea where the body was. Conveniently, there wasn't a bush or a tree around. Looks like they buried it right in the middle of a road or something.

It was pretty easy to figure out they were all in, on it, and even before it was revealed. Also, who else would've sent the text except the girlfriend who found his body and had his phone.

Death in Paradise: Unlike Father, Unlike Son (2015) Season 4, Episode 8

Another good mystery

[8/10 · 16 February 2024]

This was another solid outing for death in Paradise. It was a relatively good script and solvable mystery, with lots of suspects with motives.

Spoilers ahead...

Opportunity plays a big role in this one. I guessed the murderer just based upon opportunity, the prison guy was the only one that seem to have opportunity to a committed The crime, therefore, must've committed it. I'm glad the show followed a logical premise. There is one minor spot, where they went away from that, and that was when the female officer overpowered a much larger man. That was really stupid and they do that once in a while. There's no way this lady officer would've been able to overpower this man, not even close. The world of make-believe!

Otherwise, though a very solid outing.

Death in Paradise: She Was Murdered Twice (2015) Season 4, Episode 7

Solid and solvable

[9/10 · 15 February 2024]

This was a good solid mystery, lots of suspects. I don't know if they really explored opportunity that well, more focused on motive. For me, the mystery seemed almost too easy, I didn't have a hard time guessing who did it. Acting was good as usual location was beautiful. The victim was not very likable, almost satisfying to see her get bumped off.

Spoilers ahead...

This was the old killer confesses, but then finds out. Oh, I didn't really kill her, but he'd really killed her earlier. This has been used more than once in mysteries like this perhaps I've just watched too many I found it easy to guess.

I don't know why the killer confessed at the end. A detective with decades of experience has told me that experience criminals, anybody who's done any real time never confess, unless, of course, maybe it's part of a plea, bargain deal and they're getting a lower sentence. But them this is just fantasy.

Death in Paradise: Episode #13.1 (2024) Season 13, Episode 1

Below par episode

[5/10 · 15 February 2024]

The filming, as usual was beautiful, and the acting was fine, I thought, though the plot and the solution to the murder were well below the high standards the show has set.

Spoilers ahead...

A killer who came behind the guy who pulled the trigger and made him do it? What is this Star Wars and the guys is using the Jedi Mind trick? I like the fact that most death in Paradise mysteries at least have a physically realistic murder. This one was just dumb, and how are you supposed to figure dumb?

Then the hardened criminal just confesses in the end? Just an FYI and I know this from talking to real detectives, guys who've done prison time, they never confess ever. This was really a below par episode. Still not bad, just not up to the usual standards.

Plus, the guy that did actually shot the gun, his life went off the rails 50 years ago because he didn't pass an exam and get into police college? That's stupid also. I mean like really? He's not gonna keep trying, find something else to do, go be a cop elsewhere?

Hopefully the next episode is better.

Death in Paradise: Hidden Secrets (2015) Season 4, Episode 2

Solid mystery

[8/10 · 13 February 2024]

This one is a solid outing with a good mystery, I would say this one's a little harder due to the final solution. I solve these with some regularity, but I did not get this one.

One thing about this one I found rather ridiculous, was how Camille captured this huge man when he was trying to run away. I realize this is fiction and a lot of things happen in fiction That isn't realistic. A Very good Example of this is how often in this particular show the murderer confess at the end, let's consider that you have killers who have very carefully and in detail planned out their murder. Do you think someone who's planned this meticulously is going to suddenly just confess at the end? Wouldn't they have thought if they confess that's gonna make sure that they get convicted? Would not most of these very crafty murderers to deny they did it all the way to the very end? Yet for tvs sake, they always confess at the end. In the same way, Camille Capturing this guy who is at least twice or size and probably three or four times as strong is just ridiculously unrealistic. The two male cops from season three would've had a tough time taken this big guy down if he didn't want to be taken down. Yet this 120 pound girl easily put his arm behind his back.

I thought the solution was solvable, and the plot was solid. It requires a little bit of a different kind of thinking I personally thought the shot came from well outside the window, and the gun was thrown in, but this was not the case at the end.

Death in Paradise: Stab in the Dark (2015) Season 4, Episode 1

Decent mystery.

[8/10 · 12 February 2024]

This was a decent mystery, but not a particularly hard one to solve. This is mildly interesting with the ghost addition. Sances have a long history of being involved in mystery movies going back to Charlie Chan. The acting was good. The script was solid. The fictitious island of San Marie is always beautiful in the filming.

Spoilers ahead...

The one somewhat negative I have about this one, and it's not really that much of a negative, but it was pretty easy to see who the killer was. If you assume that everyone was holding hands as they said, and that no one gave someone a wooden hand or something ridiculous like that, it could've only been the one person that was outside, this person was the only one who wasn't really accounted for. They must've figured out a way to get in. Figuring was a little harder. I figured that out just before the end because it was the only real reason that he might've committed the murder, and you only had his word that his wife had left the island.

Death in Paradise: The Early Bird (2014) Season 3, Episode 6

An excellent and solvable mystery.

[4/10 · 12 February 2024]

A good solid, insolvable mystery. I will see I didn't find this one particularly hard to solve, though some people might. It had a sly impossible murder, like who could've committed it? The story was good. The characters were good. I thought the actors did a good job as usual beautiful location in San Marie.

Spoilers ahead...

The reason I say, this one wasn't that hard to solve was the initially showed the victim walking away, so he only saw him from the back. I've watched enough mysteries to know often if you can't see the victim, if it just looks like the victim from behind it may not have been the victim, this was the case in this mystery. As a mystery unfolded, it was obvious that the only solution was that someone had acted the part of the victim. That immediately meant that they probably had to accomplice, and the accomplice was the person who immediately flagged, the victim is walking away. Beyond that, as it flushed out once you knew that eggs were the reason for the theft. It became quite obvious that the killer or the other person involved was the hardened adventurer. So you had these two in it together, mystery solved.

Death in Paradise: Ye of Little Faith (2014) Season 3, Episode 4

Very solvable but tricky mystery.

[10/10 · 12 February 2024]

This was a very tricky but very solvable mystery. The motor for the murder was reasonable. There were plenty of red herrings all in all of very good and tight script. Well done with good acting. If you are a fan of a good who done it, this is an excellent episode.

Spoiler ahead...

What clued me off to the murderer was when the vile appeared after it was thoroughly searched, the hotel room what transpired, and what changed I asked myself? Well, the murderer had made a play for the dead girls, lover, and then had Been spurned. When his prints showed up on the vile, there was only one person who would want to set them up the murderer. To me, it was that obvious that she had known he was having an affair with the dead girl and she had lied when she said she didn't.

The Day After (1983 TV Movie)

Massively impactful film

[8/10 · 8 February 2024]

My rating in no way reflects the importance of this movie. President Regan watched this movie when it was shown and it really affected him. He was down after watching it, but he was in a unique position to actually DO Something about it.

Later in Iceland he started the down the path of reducing strategic nuclear weapons, both in the number of warheads and in the yield. Both sides, at least on paper, have way less total warheads, that have a much smaller yield, I think limited to 10 megatons.

The risk is still there, but it is way less to the whole world. It difficult as some others have already stated, to convey what is was like to live in the 80's. I remember a sense even reinforced by teachers of the day that nuclear war was inevitable eventually. The Soviet Union was this Juggernaut that would never fall internally. I had friends that wore "better dead than red." If someone said it's versus them, everyone knew who the "Them" was.

This was a bleak and relatively frightening movie, because it dealt and still deals with a real threat. It's worth a watch by anyone who hasn't seen it.

Inspector Lewis: Beyond Good and Evil: Part 2 (2014) Season 8, Episode 6

Pretty good

[8/10 · 28 January 2024]

One thing I like about the 2 parter is they developed a good number of suspects with possible motives to keep you guessing. The final solution was plausible, but I have noticed with Lewis there is a tendency to withhold a vital clue until nearly the end. I missed the murderer on this one.

The story on this one was much better and easier to follow than many Lewis episodes. I would probably give a 9 rating, but towards the end a couple of the main characters did things putting themselves in danger that seemed ridiculously stupid. It detracted from overall a good story for me. Still certainly one of the better Lewis episodes, especially as a whodunnit.

Inspector Lewis: Magnum Opus: Part 2 (2015) Season 9, Episode 4

Rather boring 2 part episode.

[5/10 · 28 January 2024]

I've found the last couple seasons of Lewis to be rather boring. I was able to guess the murderer(s), so that's always a plus, though it was more of a reasonable guess.

The premise of this was rather stupid. Some kind of a weird secretive group looking for forgiveness. This is basic Christianity. I don't know why you'd develop so weird secret society around forgiveness. Just go to any decent church. Maybe decent Christian churches are really rare in modern England?

In case anyone doesn't know, basic Christianity is Jesus died for the sins of everyone. It's a free gift, all anyone has to do is accept his sacrifice.

This one felt more like a bad midsommer murder mystery. Acting was solid as usual.

Reacher (2022– )

Entertaining

[8/10 · 21 January 2024]

Very unrealistic series! First of all, how does reacher maintain such great shape, eating crap, food, great, eating cake and stuff like that and without any weights to work out with? Not remotely realistic.

Secondly, how did the crew of of accountants and such become such a crack fighting unit better than special forces? Once again, not remotely realistic but whatever it's a TV show.

The one thing I do like about reacher is he always kills the bad guys. I appreciate that in the show. If you show guys be really bad I enjoy seeing them put down. After all this is not reality just fiction. Reminds me of old-time Tarzan bad guys never lived to see the next movie.

Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)

Awful

[1/10 · 21 January 2024]

This was truly an awful movie. Boring as heck way too much stuff going on. I have a guy who likes scheduling movies, but this one was terrible, I don't mind the alien thing happening at the same time too.

One of the worst things about this movie was the god-awful special effects I mean I honestly think some of the movies from the 70s had better effects. Rodan looked better in the 70s.

The one thing this movie was hotter. Women who showed off their bodies maybe a little more.

This movie had too much going on, like a lengthy fight scene in the beginning between two mutants that seem to go on forever, a training exercise, and I had no interest in either the characters I didn't even know that they fought for five minutes.

I will say I didn't see the last half hour. I finally pulled the plug on it about 3/4 of the way through. For a similar movie that is better I would recommend destroy all monsters.

Endeavour (2012–2023)

Good show.

[8/10 · 7 January 2024]

This is a good show but more drama than mystery. Good but if you are looking for a whodunnit, this is definitely not it.

The show does a good job of extending a developing longer multi episode and even multi series stories. It does take a few liberties with Morse's past that was developed in the original inspector Morse series. It would be interesting to watch this one first and then the Inspector Morse series. I personally preferred Morse, which is more of a whodunnit format.

Does a good job with adding flavor and current events from the years, even I think showing some of the issues from the era. Overall worth the watch.

Inspector Lewis: And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea (2008) Season 2, Episode 1

Solvable mystery

[10/10 · 4 January 2024]

What I really like from these shows is solvable mystery, one where you're able to guess the killer or killers from clues provided during the course of the show. I haven't found that always to be the case with Lewis, however, this one they provided sufficient data, one could piece together and determine the killer, I had the killer or killer pegged at about the one hour mark with the information provided which turned out to be correct.

A solid and interesting episode with red herrings as well. I find both the main characters the two detectives to be quite likable and in this one, I thought the actions of the bad guys and other characters were pretty reasonable. Well done this episode!

Endeavour: Zenana (2020) Season 7, Episode 3

Very bad ending

[4/10 · 30 December 2023]

This was a stupidly dramatic ending and a very weak story. Morse plays the fool. Totally out of character for him. Implausible murder for gain plan.

So easy also to forecast where this one was going. I lost count of all the stupid decisions that were made in the last 10 minutes. Why the heck did they even end up in Venice? I'm actually talking myself into a worse rating.

The first 75 minutes were pretty good. I don't know what the point of tied up girl was though. Really a much lesser entry in what has otherwise been an excellent series. This really had two mysteries to it. Who was the killer by the top path and who was the killers involved in the insurance scam.

Wish for Christmas (2016)

Excellent Christmas movie

[8/10 · 24 December 2023]

A little bit of Christmas magic in a movie of Faith. Pretty cool. Girl gets her wish granted, then finds out. It's not all she really wanted, matter fact she finds out it's not what she really wanted even at all.

This movie got heart. This young girl wants to live out her dream and be the queen of the Christmas dance, but her parents convictions get in the way. Then, suddenly, she gets all she wants, or does she.

Pretty good acting I say the story isn't flimsy besides the basic premise it, you can make a wish and it would happen. Nothing that happens after that seems unrealistic at all. Very solid movie set at Christmas time and revolving around the holiday. Good for anyone to watch to get you in the true spirit of Christmas.

In my opinion, people who give this one star are very offended by the Christian faith in general.

Christmas Grace (2013)

Solid Christmas movie

[7/10 · 24 December 2023]

Good faith based Christmas story. Not a big budget movie but reasonably acted. Has some truly powerful and emotional moments.

This a reality based drama, there are no Christmas elves or Santa Claus. It isn't an action movie where a kid fights off burglars. No crazy accidents, just about real people and how Jesus, whom Christmas is about, can still be involved in people's lives today.

About the only criticism I could make is I don't know why a guy who hated Christmas would open a Toy Story. Odd carreer choice. Also I don't think a medium size toy store could ever be big business, but this is a movie, the world of make believe. As a believer, I probably wouldn't have been as generous as the main character was towards the end of the movie.

I've seen a number of one star reviews when I first started to read reviews. I can only think these were given because the reviewers objected to the faith in Jesus of the central characters, and how at the end of the movie, this faith is triumphant. There is nothing one star about this movie. Hopefully this isn't a spoiler.

My Sister's Serial Killer Boyfriend (2023 TV Movie)

Very unrealistic but entertaining movie

[5/10 · 20 November 2023]

Very poor and unrealistic script. Like when the sister in trouble gave a note to the man behind the counter, that she was in trouble and call her sister. Even if the girl in trouble wasn't smart enough to ask him to call the police, and even if he was going to call the sister, why in the world wouldn't you also call the police?

In real life, the main heroine would be completely paranoid. She suspected the main bad guy for absolutely no reason right from get go. Ridiculous for her to suspect him like that. The story the bad guy.

Still, I did find this one entertaining. I gave it five stars, might've been a little generous, but the movie managed to be good with a fairly flimsy script.