The Punisher: One Last Kill SPOILER FILLED Review

Marvel has been hitting it out of the park very recently with there shows with Daredevil: Born Again season 2 being one of the best things to come out of the MCU in recent years. However as much as we like the good it seems that we also have to get some bad as a week after the finale of Born Again season 2 we get a new special featuring The Punisher and then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the special that does straight up John Wick a dog with the special in question bein called simply just "The Punisher: One Last Kill" enjoy.

The plot of this special is a the last surviving member of a famous mob family puts a hit out on Frank and Frank has to try and survive every thug that tries to kill him. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special was in all honesty OK at best. To be frank here this specials plot is really lacking as at times it does feel like that there was no plot to speak off out of the one that was just described and even then that is something that could be considered more of a synopsis rather then a full blown plot. This special was presented under the "Marvel Studios Special Presentation" banner and yet the specials plot doesn't feel all that special as it feels like something that could have been the plot for an episode of the Netflix Punisher TV series with the specials plot being really thin at best and look granted this special is mainly there to set up Frank appearing in Spider-Man: Brand New Day and that's really it and that's great but you still need to give this special a half way decent plot, it's not all doom and gloom for this specials plot tho as the special does do some interesting things with Frank but sat the same time the special doesn't devote enough time to those things heck it doesn't give its own plot a conclusion as the special just sort of ends and while that would have been fine if this was a TV series as then you could argue that the show is getting another season to finish its story yet this isn't a TV show its a special and therefore the plot really did to be finished by the end of this special. With the plot of this special not really being really rather entertaining and nor is it really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this special is this specials co-writer and producer Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle / The Punisher and Judith Light as Ma Gnucci. Also starring in this special is Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page , Jason R. Moore as Curtis Hoyle , Andre Royo as Dre , John Douglas Thompson as Johnny , Colton Hill as Colton Hill , Nick Koumalatsos as Himself , Addie Bernthal as Lisa Castle , Mila Jaymes as Charli , Eduardo Campirano as Frank Castle, Jr. , Mugga as Debbie , Dónall Ó Héalal as Mickey , Jamal Lloyd Johnson as Barry , Rafael R. Green as Isaiah , Evelyn O. Vaccaro as Isaiah's Mother , Roe Rancell as Dennis , Annika Pergament as Herself , Jesse Ray Sheps as Adnan , Dominick Mancino as Benny Gnucci , Joseph Devito as Bobby Gnucci , Henry Corvino as Eddie Gnucci, Jr. , David Manuele as Carlo Gnucci , David Goodman as Charles and Brenda McCullough as Aly.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special was in all honesty not that bad. This specials acting is quite frankly alot more better then what you think it would have been with the actors that you expect a good performance giving us exactly that, however tho this is a case where the special does have alot more bad acting then it does good with it being clear as day that this specials co-writer , producer and director Reinaldo Marcus Green really has no clue on how to direct his actors as outside of the returning actors the newer actors come across as no having any clue on what to do or if there giving a good performance and this is something that he should communicated to them. With the best actor in this special being Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle / The Punisher which is really something that does make sense as no only is her reprising a role but he also co-wrote and co-produced the special therefore he will have a really good handle on the material and will know how best to make it work not only for him but for his character as well. With the acting that's in this very special not really being helped by the fact that this specials script is just so bad as it gives none of this specials actors anything to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really foes harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very special.

Doing the CGI for this special is the legends and the really greats that really are currently over at Curated. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special was in all honesty not that bad. This special has been getting alot of negative press in recent days due to the quality of the CGI and while yes there is one really bad looking effect which will be getting discussed the rest of the specials CGI was about as passable as you would expect it to be as the rest of the specials CGI is just set extensions with the only other really bad looking effect being some really obvious either green or blue screen effects around the halfway point of the special but that's really it. As for the specials shall we say infamous bad looking effect whilst it is just about as bad as people on social media have been making it out to be as it does look like a computer game effect there could be some logical reasoning behind why it looks so bad in the first place as the effect just screams "we'll fix it post" as they clearly use the real life head of Jon Bernthal but they then replace his entire body the other thing could be that the effects team just either ran out of money or time to get the effect looking just right either way there is something more to this effect other then it being a bad effect as it's really only that effect of Frank falling that looks bad with the rest of the specials effects looking really good for the most part and given that this shot is on screen for only a few seconds it is something that might have just slipped past the makers of the special but either way a bad effect is a bad effect but it is hard to work out just who is to blame for this bad looking effect as there's no information out there about why this effect looks as bad as it does in the first place.

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This whole special does of Dredd 2012 vibes as alot of the specials third act is beat for beat a copy of the entirety of that film. Much like like in Dredd where Judges Dredd and Anderson are trapped inside of a building with people trying to kill them Frank finds himself basically trapped in his apartment building with people trying to kill him with both that film and this special having the main character having to find new and inventive ways to get out of the building this is something that is slightly forgivable due to the fact that Dredd wasn't that big of a hit at the box office and it is still a cult film it is still something that the makers of this special had to be aware of as it's not all that subtle with the only difference being Frank doesn't spend that long in the building as he gets out of it pretty quickly. It does make sense for them to want to copy what worked in Dredd as the character of Judge Dredd is pretty much the same as Frank Castle as Judge Dredd wants to uphold the law no matter what even if it means turning in his co-workers for doing something that breaks the law and Frank has been a victim of a vicious crime and because of that does want to see the law upheld even if it's his own twisted version of it and therefor copying the main plot of the most recent Dredd film in this regard is something that does make sense but at the same time all this ends up doing is reminding people that they could be watching a much more better film as this special has nothing that's worth watching whereas in Dredd the idea of being trapped alone in a building full of criminals that want you dead and with no way to call for help is a good idea and while that idea does also work in this special it's not really one that's done to its fullest extent.

As was mentioned at the start of this review they do John Wick a dog in this film by which they do kill of a dog and yes you do see how it happened even if you don't see the truck hitting the dog. Whilst this is something that will upset alot of dog lovers and animal lovers out there this is also something that is inservice to what little plot that the special does have as it does highlight just how for lack of better word lawless that the town of Little Sicily is as we do see crimes being committed left right and centre in this small town with the police not even going near it as when they do there police cars get set on fire with possibly the policemen in side them as well. This is due to the fact that due to Frank killing of the the Gnucci crime family leaving only Ma Gnucci alive and because of this there is now a huge power vacuum in the town with alot of small time criminals trying to take the biggest slice of the pie yet the special doesn't really take the time to go into this all that much as its something that is very much glossed over and forgotten about by the end of the special as when the special ends things are just as bad in Little Sicily with the only difference being that Frank has suited up once again as The Punisher and while there will be no doubt we'll be seeing more of this small town in the new Spider-Man film it is something that should have been resolved in this special as it then makes the story feel complete and while there is more better ways to get across the fact that there is no law in this town then killing of a dog as you could have showed the dogs owner getting the life beat out of him and robbed as that still would have gotten the point across just as well giving the fact that this special is more mature having the dog killed of is something that works just as well even if it is something that really wasn't needed in the first place.

Ma Gnucci herself is someone that would have made for a more better villain if she was someone that had appeared in The Punisher Netflix show. While over members of her family did so Ma herself was nowhere to be seen and while it does make sense for her to be the main villain of this special as Frank is now struggling with what to do next now that all of them are killed off she doesn't really do all that much outside of appearing in a few scenes and straight up tell Frank that she's told people to come to his home at this time and kill him and that's it which just feels like a waste of a character as on paper this character could have been handled really well as the special could have delved into what it was that made her tick Heck they even could have taken the time to show us just how cold and calculated that she is much like with what they did with Wilson Fisk in Daredevil: Born Again where we got to see him thinking three steps ahead of everyone else thus forcing Matt Murdock and friends to try and outwit him and becoming better heroes because of it yet here due to the fact that we don't get to spend alot of with Ma as a character we don't get to know all that much about her and therefore we don't get to see if she is this cold and calculating. the character does come off as being all the less interesting because of it as she just comes off as being another typical Marvel mobster boss villain with the only difference being that she apparently loved her family to death and while that is great on paper on screen you need to give us more then that to make us truly hate this character as we the audience have no reason to hate her as a character and the only way that you would have a reason to hate her was if you read the comics as the special doesn't give us anything that makes us want to hate her, heck we don't get that much of a backstory for her character something which would have helped us the audience to fully hate her as a character.

Now then this special has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty eight minuets and three seconds. Which for a Disney+ special is kind of the bogstandard running time for these specials to have but at the same time the average episode of any TV drama does typically last a lot more longer then this special when it really should be the other way around as you could very easily get this special to come it at around one hour just by expanding upon the specials main plot and themes with the special having more then enough plot there to fully cover that amount of running time in the first place yet for one reason or another the makers of this special instead chose to have it come it at just under the fifty minuet mark. With the special not really using its running time all that wisely as the special doesn't take the time to fully develop its plot as there isn't much of a plot there to begin with with this being something that very easily could be been fixed with the makers of the special choosing to devote more time to the aspects of the specials plot that actually work like Frank having PTSD and actually finishing off the story that it was tryin to tell in the first place instead of focusing on other less important things as all that does is eat away at the specials screen time. This is something that does also the effect the specials character development as while it could be argued that Frank does get some character development in this special as he does agree to go back to being The Punisher again none of the specials other characters get any kind of screen time which is something that dos make sense as Frank is the specials title character but at the same time characters like Ma are left feeling underdeveloped as the makers of the special seem to be afraid of giving us well thought out characters but I really will admit that this special really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action special that really does mean that I gave to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special wa in all honesty really good. With the specials actin being the best part of the special itself this is something that does make sense as The Punisher is meant to be this unstoppable one man army who is willing to do whatever it is that he thinks is and that is something that does open to having some really fun and creative action scenes and that is something that we do get alot of in this special with the action being the main star of the special. With the best action scene in this special being the escape scene as we get to see Frank both shoot and stab his way through countless criminals all of which are trying to kill him and all of which are harming other people that they believe might be hiding him, heck we even get to see alot of really cool death scenes and moves in this one action scene all of which are thing that do make this specials action feel all the more well thought out then the rest of the special and whilst it would have been very easy to have things cool off when Frank does escape his apartment it keeps on going with this being something that does add an element of danger as now Frank for all we could no might not have anywhere else to go and yet he still keeps on fighting as now he's not fighting to avenge the death of his family he's fighting for his very life with him finding the will to be The Punisher once more during this truly epic action scene with the rest of the specials action being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall if you have the choice between this and Devil May Cry season 2 watch Devil May Cry season 2 as there's really very little of value to be found in this special outside of the set up for Spider-Man: Brand New Day with the whole special feeling like a rush job to get the special out there while people are still really wanting to see more from the Netflix Marvel characters in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad thigs that are in this very special in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very special really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.

Now then as or where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very special that I used in this very review being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very special with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Devil May Cry Season 2 SPOILER FILLED Review

After what feels like years of waiting Netflix has finally dropped all eight episodes of one of the most underrated animated shows currently out. This is a show that to be frank i've been eagerly awaiting so much so that I did a tie in review for this whole new season and well then new season is finally here and well you just knew that I had to check out the very first chance that I got and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the season that features alot of really good rock songs in it with the show in question being called simply just "Devil May Cry" enjoy.

The plot of this season is sometime after the events of the first season Dante is thawed out and along with Lady and his brother Virgil have to stop a demon from resurrecting the ;iteral devil himself. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very season well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very season was in all honesty really good. The seasons plot is one that does more then uphold the already high bar set by that of the first season just due to the fact that's not a copy and paste of the first seasons plot with the plot of this season being one that is alot more darker and more mature then we got in the first season. This is something that does work to the seasons advantage as this show on the whole is meant be an adult show and therefore it does have permission to go deeper into the characters backstories then what a kids animated series could do for example and while there are times where it does feel like that this seasons plot is a bit all over the place it then does something that ties it all together in ways that actually make sense and with the season being a tight eight episodes long it does mean that all of the show episodes are about advancing the seasons plot forward with this being something that does make the plot of this season feel like a really strong and well thought out plot albeit one with a few minor issues here and there with the plot of this season also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this season is Johnny Yong Bosch as Dante and Scout Taylor-Compton as Mary Ann Arkham / Lady. Also starring in this season is Kue Lawrence as young Dante , Ian James Corlett as William Baines , Robbie Daymond as Vergil , Marcel Nahapetian as young Vergil , Graham McTavish as Arius Von Erenburg , Quinn Eakins as young Arius , Ray Chase as Mundus and Jester , Tony Todd as Beowulf , James C. Mathis III as Beowulf , Salli Saffioti as Chi , Tara Strong as Nell Goldstein , Jim Conroy as Stan Sullivan , Andrew Morgado as Argosax , Rick D. Wasserman as Trismagia , Keith David as Lucan and Paris Johnson as Mattie.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very season well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very season was in all honesty really good. The fact that this season has as good acting as it has is something that is not really all that surprising as all you need do is look at how is in this season to see that the quality of acting is going to be really high , much like with the previous season where we had two actors playing Baines we are sadly in that same situation again this season with both Tony Todd and James C. Mathis III playing Beowulf and sadly its for the exact same reason however unlike with Baines where you really couldn't tell who was playing the character in what episode here you can sort of tell just because of the fact that Tony Todd had such a distinctive voice with James's acting still being really good. With the best actor in this season being Scout Taylor-Compton as while she was good in the previous season here in these eight episodes its like she really did up her game as an actor and this is something that does make alot of sense as she is reprising the role and therefor she would of course have more knowledge on how best to perform this character but to compare her performance this to that of what she did with the same character in the last season its night and day. With the acting in this season really being helped by the fact that this seasons scripts where just so good that all this seasons actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very season.

Doing the animation for this season is the legends and the greats that really are currently over at Studio Mir. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very season well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very season was in all honesty really good. Much like with the seasons acting the fact that we got good animation all throughout this season is something that's not really all that surprising due to the fact that the animation in the last season was also really good. With the things that made the animation in this season stand out being the fat that instead of just using hand drawn animation which was they mostly used in the first season here they blend it with 3D CGI animation as well with alot of the demons being done in this method. The other thing that does make this season animation stand out being the fact that unlike the first season where we were mainly stuck on earth which did lead to some really boring looking backgrounds here since we spend alot of time on both earth and the demon world it does mean that we get a vast majority of backgrounds that all look different from each other with it being made clear as day that the makers of this show took great care into giving us both worlds there own unique look to them as the human world mainly has very muted colors with there being lots of brown being used with the inside of the main villains base being mostly white and yet when we get to the demon world as to expected its all mainly red with this being something that does help to distinguish the two worlds from one another.

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There is no way to do a full on review of this season and not talk about Lady as she is pretty much the only character from the first season that gets some major love in this one. As we see how she was deeply effected by not only the events of the first season but also the first season finale as well as she does believe that she is terrible person due to the choices that she's made in that first season with being Dante himself being the one to basically tell her that she had to do what she thought was right at the time and given the fact that she had just seen her while team wiped out in the blink of an eye she had to make a call that whilst it didn't work out well for anyone as it ended with the human race going to war with demons and Dante being put on ice it was still a call that did lead to Dante's brother making himself known again. While Dante and Virgil were very much the focus of the teaser at the end of the first season here it is very much Lady and this is something that does feel like a copy and paste of the first season as it's revealed in the tease for the next season that Lady's dad is not only alive and well but that he's also someone that we've been seeing all throughout the season in the demon world as it's revealed that her father transformed himself into Jester. This is something that does feel like a copy and paste from the end of the first season where it was revealed that Virgil is alive and well and while it worked there it was due to the fact that it was something that was genuinely surprising where as here it doesn't work quite as well due to the fact we've just seen that tease but done in a much better way with the only thing that makes it kind of work here is the fact that we've seen this character alot this season we just never knew just how big of a character that he is for one of the shows main characters and while the tease could have been done better it is still something that does still work in its own right.

Much like with the first season this season also has a killer soundtrack with there being remixed songs of both "Afterlife" ad "My Immortal" both from Evanescence. With there being songs by Papa Roach (Getting Away With Murder) , Casey Edwards &Amira Elfeky (Bazooka) , Avril Lavigne (Sk8ter Boi) Bryce Vine (Street Punks On A Freight Train) Capcom (Dante's Office) , Gunship (The Gates Of Disorder , Power Glove Featuring Gunship (Shall Never Surrener) and Drowning Pool (Bodies) this is just a good song list. Whilst they do ditch Rollin by Limb Bizkit for the shows opening theme and instead replace it with a more generic rock track by the band Powerglove with the theme song being called "Jackpot" nothing is ever going to top just how hyped you would get hearing Rollin every time an the intro for the season played. To give this season its flowers it does know how to use it's music with alot of the songs mentioned being played over fight scenes which is just such a good way to get you hyped for the fight scene but then occasionally they would have a  more emotional song play over a more sad scene and again it is something that does work really well although to be fair alot of the time it does feel like that this shows creator and co-producer Adi Shankar was just using songs that he likes rather then songs that would benefit the show on the whole as while alot of these songs do help to fit in with the show and do give it a more frantic energy alot more of the time they do feel out place and they take you out of the scene because of the fact that alot of them are from well known bands and that is something that could be a bit distracting.

Villain wise this season we do technically have two different villains as we have both Arius and Mundus with Argosax not really being a villain as he only appears in the final two episodes. Arius and Mundus tho are who we spend alot more time with with both of them wanting to reign over the demon world with the only thing that sets them apart being the fact that Arius also wants to rule the human world and is more then willing to use both Dante and Virgil to get what he wants as we see him trying to manipulate Dante in a later episode of the season as Dante knows full well that in his human form he can't beat him let alone land a single hit on him yet he still try to do something to do some damage to him whereas with Virgil because of the fact that he was manipulated by Mundus when he was young he is more easily manipulated by Arius although Virgil does know that Arius is playing him and does help to form a plan to get him and Mundus to fight each other in the demon world. Out of the two villains in this season the more effective one is easily Arius due to the fact that we do see him physically over power all of our heroes at one point or another this season and that's without the use of Argosax and yet when Argosax does come into play then he's basically Godzilla in that he's unbeatable and that s something that does force our heroes to better themselves and to think out side of the box whereas with Mundus due to the fact that the season does spend alot of time on earth we don't get to see just how effective that he is a villain as we know from the final fight of the season that he is a physically strong character but what we don't know is if Dante and Virgil could beat him in a fight and to be fair to this show we don't need to know that just yet as the main purpose of this season was to get Argosax and Arius to fight and that's it.

Now then this season / had an exact grand total running time of no longer then forty minuets with the longest episode being episode one which has a grand total running time of thirty nine minuets and twenty nine seconds and the shortest episode this season was episode three which was thirty minuets and fifty one seconds. The very fact that the makers of this show have episodes that are alot closer to forty minuets then what they were last season is something that does tell you that they took the story this season very seriously as by giving all of the episodes these more longer running times it does allow not only each episodes plot but also the plot of the season to breathe alot more with the season having more then plot to cover that amount of running time in the first place. However tho this season really doesn't use its running time all that wisely as while the episodes are indeed alot longer this season they don't really take the time to fully develop the seasons plot with this being something that could have been fixed if they did two things the first of which being if they stopped playing a song every few minuets as that makes it the show look like an advertisement for the soundtrack and the second of which being if they had two or three more episodes to the episode count as that would then allow for there be scenes where the plot does get alot more development. The show does however take great strides in giving its characters some character development as we do see Lady and Dante first form a bond as friends something which they were close to being by the end of the first season and then to possible love interests and with Virgil we see him go from someone who believes that only people with power can be strong to someone who has just had enough with people controlling him and heck even Baines gets some character development as learns just how evil he has truly been but I really will admit that this season really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is aa action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very season well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in thus very season was in all honesty really good. This is something that was to expected as anything that has Adi Shankar involved in it be it animated or live action does have some really cool action in it and the same thing is true for this season as all of this seasons action scenes are filled to the brim with really cool moments be it Dante shooting a rocket launcher and then riding the rocket down the ground just to get closer to an opponent or or Lady killing a bunch of demons bottom line if you love action and you love action with cool moments in them then this season has you covered. With the best action scene in the whole entire episode actually being all the way back in episode one of the season as when Virgil first arrives on earth he finds himself surrounded by Arius taskforce and yet without hesitation he whips his sword out and starts cutting of there heads and limbs all while "Bodies" by Drowning Pool plays this is such cool action scene as while we did have other action scenes in that episode alot of them were either two long or two short for us to fully take them in where as here with this action scene it lasts the right amount of time with this also giving us a good look at just what Virgil can do in an action scene and while the lyrics to the song playing might be bit on the nose for what's happening n screen one can't help but get excited because of how good of a song that it is in the first place with the reason of seasons action scenes being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall if you haven't watched this new season of the show yet then what are you waiting for go ahead and do exactly that there's a reason why this new season has been getting rave reviews from people online and all of that praise is totally justified as this new season is just that good in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in his very season in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very season really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly an 8.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very season that I used in this very review being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very season with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Doctor Who: The Beast Below Review

When we think of the Matt Smith era of Doctor Who we very rarely if ever think about his debut series as while yes we will for obvious reasons think about his debut episode that's really it when it comes to this series. Well I thought that since it's been quite a long time since anything from the Matt Smith era of Doctor Who was last reviewed that i'd take a look at a forgotten episode from a largely forgotten series and so then join me as I review the episode that sees The Doctor kick Amy off of the TARDIS with the episode episode in question being called simply just "The Beast Below" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when The Doctor and Amy land on a starship that hosts the whole of the UK barring Scotland they have to work out what is actually keeping the ship afloat and why people keep on getting taken. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in al honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty OK at best. The episodes plot does feel like its trying to do a bit two much rather then just being this one thing as we have the story of Amy trying to persuade The Doctor not to investigate the ship and then we have the series long arc of these cracks appearing everywhere and we have the episodes main plot with all three of these fighting to screen time whereas if the episode just focused on its main plot and nothing else then it would have worked all the more better. As the episodes plot on its own isn't that bad of a plot but the issue is that due to it fighting for screen time with other plot heavy scenes then it is left feeling undercooked and not as good as a plot like this could have been as by all rights this episodes plot could have been one of the more better plots for this fifth series but due to the episode trying to do to much with all of those individual elements working better on there own it does leave what could have been a really good plot being a bit forgettable, when this plot should be anything but that as this is still the start of a new era for the show and therefor the makers of this show should have been trying to still try and win over new viewers with this plot with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Matt Smith as The Doctor , Karen Gillan as Amy Pond and Sophie Okonedo as Liz 10. Also starring in this episode is Terrence Hardiman as Hawthorne , Hannah Sharp as Mandy , Alfie Field as Timmy , Christopher Good as Morgan , David Ajala as Peter , Catrin Richards as The Poem Girl , Jonathan Battersby as A Winder , Chris Porter as the voice of the Smilers and the Winders and Ian McNeice as Winston Churchill.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in al honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. Whilst it is hard to say if this episode did get any praise for its acting it is something that the episode should be praised for as alot of the episodes actors do give us some really good performances with the likes of both Matt Smith ad Karren Gillan already nailing there characters just two episodes into there runs on the show. With the best actor in this whole entire episode being Sophie Okonedo as Liz 10 as while it would have been super easy just to say that either or both Matt and Karen are the best actors in this episode they would go on to have the benefit of being on the show for a long time whereas with Sophie she does have to give us a good performance right from the word go and she does do exactly that with her being really cool and at ease in the part of a character where it would have been super easy to just play it as it's written n the page and add nothing new to it but the fact that she does take the time to make her be this cool character think James Bond with a crown and yet she still does take the time to make you feel something for her character which is something that really would have been quite hard to do. With the acting that's in this very episode not really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so bad as it gives none of this episodes absolutely anything to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does help to harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode. 

Doing the CGI for this episode is Real SFX and the legends and the greats that are currently over at The Mill. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in al honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. This episodes were of a rally high quality as the episode did gave more ambitious effects in it for the time and to be fair to the episode the episodes effects haven't aged as badly as they perhaps could have done. As there are effects in this show first series that have aged horribly despite them having the same team that worked on them with this being due to the fact that here was more technology there to create better looking effects in 2010 then there was in 2005 with then being something that dies make all of the difference as while in 2005 they did have to rely more on practical effects with them introducing more CGI elements the further the show when on here in this episode it's mostly an effects driven episode and therefor the effects did have to be really good and while there will always be a need for practical effects in Doctor Who this show has always been and will be an effects heavy show, while the effects in this episode can look a little bit dodgy at time with the CGI tentacles being a good example of this alot of more of the episodes effects do look really good which is mainly due to the fact that the episode does mainly hide there effects in darkness whereas the tentacles are in plain view and therefor we the audience can see all of there faults as they do look a little bit to fake and they do have a plastic like look to them that makes them look like a toy and not something from a TV show. 

We do get to see something that is never seen in Doctor Who in this episode and that's the fact that we get to see The Doctor kick Amy out of the TARDIS. As when he discovers that she has been trying to get him not to investigate this ship he does rightfully snap at her and he does outright say that as soon as there done here he's taking her home with this being something that is so unlike The Doctor and whilst it could very well be chalked up to the fact that she was lying to him and he doesn't care much for liars one of his first rules is is that he will lie therefor the more obvious reason for him doing this is because of the fact that he hasn't travelled with anyone since the end of the fourth series of the show and given the fact that we've seen how The Doctor acts when he's not been around another human being for a long time. It is obvious that the reason that he snapped at Amy when she herself admitted that she was having a bad day and made the wrong call was because of the fact that he hasn't travelled with anyone for some time thus now Amy has to be the responsible one of the two as The Doctor does try to find a painless way to kill of the space whale that's carrying the starship quite literally on it's back with her remembering the fact that she over heard someone say that the creature won't feed on the children. The fact that it's essentially Amy that saves the day and not The Doctor is a good idea as it not only shows the audience how capable that Amy Pond is but it also gives The Doctor a reason to not only trust her again but also welcome her back onto the TARDISA with this being something that do seem to be seeing less and less with each passing season and yet here it is something that is a kind of plot point in the episode.

To be frank here the best word that one could use to describe this episode is forgettable as that's exactly what it is due to the fact that nothing memorable in the episode happens with the only slightly memorable thing that's in the episode isn't even apart of the main episode as its the cliffhanger for the episode which even then is a tease for the next episode this is something that does do alot of harm to the episode as yes it would have been foolish to expect every single episode of this show to be memorable given the fact that they were still trying to reintroduce the show and introduce it to a new audience then there should have been some level of thought and effort put into making this episode be all the more memorable instead of just leaving it as a blank mess of an episode. Heck the episode doesn't even have any villains in the episode as both the Sliders and Winders are only acting the way that they are as they believe that if Liz 10 did hit the abdicate button that they would all die with them acting more out of self reservation rather then malice and anger and while the fact that this episode does have no villain is something that could be seen as being the point of the episode as the episode could be seen as being a pro environment episode which is something that is fair enough but given the fact the episode then doesn't make the human character the outright bad guys which they could have done if that was the case then it does make you wonder why this episode has no real villain to speak off and while not every episode of this show needs to to have an outright villain indeed it could be argued that the very first Doctor Who serial also doesn't have a villain. Here tho it is something that does do a lot of harm to the episode as it robs the episode of the chance of having quite literally anything memorable in the episode happen all for no good reason which is something that does help to make this episode be all the more forgettable.

Liz 10 as a character is one that did have all of the potential in the world to be a great reoccurring character for this era of the show. As she is cool and calm and is always willing to do what's right no matter the cost and heck one could even argue that instead of forcing River Song down our throats by having her appear at least once or more times in a series that maybe Liz 10 could have gotten some love from this episodes writer Steven Moffat as it would have been so cool seeing her and River bounce off of each other in "A Good Man Goes To War" for example and yet outside of this episode and "The Pandorica Opens" the character never appears again in Doctor Who. Which des make you wonder why they bothered o make be this cool character that you actively want to see more off as they very easily could have found ways to explain why The Doctor is bumping into her much like how they found ways to explain that exact same thing when it comes to River Song and yet for one reason or another River got all of the love which she did rightfully deserve then Liz 10 did this is despite the fact that Liz 10 had more of the potential to be this cool character as they had to make up the fact that River was basically Indiana Jones in space where as with Liz even just by going off of this episode you see all of the potential that this character had and it makes all the more upsetting that the makers of this show didn't take full advantage of that by having her appear in more episodes, however tho given the fact that she is the Queen of the starship UK it would have been hard to find believable ways to explain why her character was always having these adventures with The Doctor without The Doctor having to keep on returning to the starship UK each and every time.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty one minuets and twenty seven seconds. Which is the bogstandard running time for this show is moving forward and to be fair to this episode whilst it doesn't really to be that long to tell its story the episode does take the time to make the Starship UK feel like a character in its own right and it's not something that could have been and still tell a good story if the episode had a shorter running time and if the episode was longer then it would have felt like that the episode was stretching an admittedly thin premise even thinner with the episode n the whole having just about the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place. Yet the episode doesn't use its running time all that wisely due to the fact that the episode doesn't take the time to fully develop its plot with this being due to the fact that the episode does have alot of plot lines going on with them all fighting for screen time where as if the episode but more focus on just its running time on just its main plot and not on several of the episodes other plots as all this does is make the episodes main plot feel less developed yet if the episode did take the time to fully develop its main plot then all of the episode other plots would have been all the more better and stronger. This is something does also effect the episodes character development as none of the episodes characters barring The Doctor and Amy get any kind of character development with it being pointless for Amy and The Doctor to get there character development in this episode as they have all of the other episodes of the show to get there character development and yet here we see The Doctor learning to trust humans again and we see Amy learn that lying can get her into trouble but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk abut the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us un this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. While the episode doesn't have that much in the way of action when it does ramp the story up and it does ramp up the excitement this is where the episode does begin to shine and while the episode doesn't have a single fight scene in it this is something that does work well for this episode as this is an episode that is more about exploring The Doctor and Amy as characters and that is somethin that doesn't demand alot of action. With the best action in the episode being when Amy and The Doctor find themselves in a creatures mouth and have to find a way out of it with The Doctor eventually getting the creature to sneeze which is a really good idea with this scene being the closest that we get to having a fully blown action scene in the episode as very thing else in the episode is more subdued with the episode relying more on scares rather then action with that action scene only working due t the fact that we get to see some of the wonderful chemistry and Matt and Karen have with each other as they both have some wonderful back and fourth with each other in that scene which us something that does make that scene be all the more exciting, heck one could argue that that action is a good way of getting the characters to try and find a creative solution to a problem that they had no idea about and to be fair to the episode that is something that des work well enough in the  characters favor with the rest of the episodes action being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Overall it is easy to see why this episode is as forgettable as it is as outside of the character of Liz 10 and all the potential that she had as a character there's nothing all that memorable about this episode and yet if there was more thought and effort put into this episode then this episode could have been a really solid episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and a such that really does mean that this very epsode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review rom Amazon . Co . Uk , Tardis . Wiki and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the really great Tardis . Wiki really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Tardis . Wiki really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Devil May Cry: "A River Of Blood And Fire" Review

For some odd reason Netflix doesn't like to tell you when the new season of a hit animated show is coming out. As we are just a few short days away from the release of Devil May Cry season 2 and yet there's been next to nothing to tell you about this new season coming out well as I liked the first season and will for sure be checking out season 2 I thought that i'd take a look back at the first season finale as a way to get us all excited for the new season and so then join me as I review the episode that features Green Day's "American Idiot" with the episode in question being called simply just "A River Of Blood And Fire" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is Dante and Lady have to defeat fully mutated White Rabbit and stop him from taking over the earth before its far to late. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. This episodes plot is one that whilst it could be seen as being a bit thin as when you boil it down to it's core elements there's not that much going on plot wise as the episode is indeed just one long fight scenes and while this is something that does leave the plot of the episode feeling more like an afterthought in the grand scheme of things. It is also something that does make sense as this episode was the first seasons finale episode and therefor it didn't need to be rich with plot to make it work as this is quite literally the third act of a story and therefor it needed to be more action packed and less story focused and while yes it would have worked just as well if the episode did have more of a focus on it's story as at the end of the day that's what people are going to remember about the show it's also not really something that was needed to make this episode be as good as it is and not every single episode of every single show animated or not needs to be plot focused as sometimes being a dumb action show is more then enough and that is something that was very much the case with this episode as it is just a dumb action show and this episode did fully understand that with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Johnny Yong Bosch as Dante , Scout Taylor-Compton as Lady / Mary and Hoon Lee as The White Rabbit. Also starring in this episode is Kevin Conroy as Baines , Ian James Corlett as Baines , Chris Coppola as Enzo , Benjamin Abiola as Anders and A Guard , Jon Gries as Pres. Hopper and A Soldier , Robbie Daymond as Vergil , Kari Wahlgren as Eva , Donovan Patton as Bloodstryke and A Demon , Roger L. Jackson as An Officer and An Interrogator , Matthew Waterson as The Large Soldier , Jason Marnocha as A Civilian and A Predator Demon and Erica Lindbeck as A Mother , A Baby and A Demon Kid.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. If you want a good idea of just how good that this episodes acting is all you need do is just look at who is in the episode as the episode is filled to the brim not only with anime voice acting legends but with voice acting legends in general with them them all turning in some really good performances in this episode and even tho both Kevin Conroy and Ian James Corlett are playing the same character with Corlett filling for Conroy in this episode you really can't tell the difference as the character of Baines does sound the exact same with both actors nailing there performances as the character with even Ian James Corlett now voicing the character in the rest of the show moving forward. With the best actor in this episode being Johnny Yong Bosch as Dante as he not only does give us some really funny lines in this episode he also knows when to stop being funny and to amp up the tension with the character and just go all out nuts with him which is something that he wouldn't have been able to do on Power Rangers as his character on that show wouldn't have allowed him to do it but here in this show he can go as nus as he wants do and as over the top as he wants to with this being something that you also see him do in several of his other anime projects as well and it works in this episode because of the fact that Dante is an over the top kind of character, with the acting that's in this very episode not really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is so bad as it gives none of this episodes actors alot to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does help to lower the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Doing the animation for this episode is the legends and the greats that really are currently over at Studio Mir. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. Much like with this films acting the fact that this episode or even the show on the whole has good animation isn't all that surprising given the fact that Studio Mir has worked on alot of really good shows in the past and has always out in alot of really good animation in everything that they do. This show and this episode does take a huge amount of inspiration from anime with not only the character designs but also the characters movements in the action scenes and it is something that does make you wonder if this is an anime or not as even the show is firmly an American production you wouldn't know it just by looking at images from the show and yet at the same time this episodes animation does benefit from that as it does allow the characters to have these more over the top movements which in turn does help to make the episodes action scenes really come alive and feel like something that you would see in the Devil May Cry games. There is one thing that does let the animation in this episode down tho and that's the fact that the backgrounds in the human world aren't that inspired with the episode mainly just using a stereotypical city background and fair enough there's not much that you can do with a city background to make it interesting and yet when we briefly visit the demon world the backgrounds there don't look that much better with it feeling like the makers of this show put more effort into the episodes character designs and a lot less effort was put into the episodes backgrounds. 

All throughout this first season of the show we are told that Dante's brother is dead with it being revealed at the very end of this episode that not only is he alive and well but he is also coming after Dante. This is a good way to set up the main character for the next season as this is a character that does deserve to have this amount of build up given just how big of a threat that he has the potential to be and having him be at the very end of this first season as a way to get people to want to watch the next season as now it leaves us the audience wanting more and that is a great way to introduce the character and with him being the main villain of season two or at least going to be one of the villains of season two then having him be this stinger of a character does make alot of sense. While we don't understandably get to spend alot of time with the character the very brief glimpse that we get of the character does tell us that he is a villain that's not to be messed with whereas with The White Rabbit you got the feeling that he very much like the first main villain character of a video game in that he was never going to be that much of a threat and is someone that while it does cause Dante some trouble when you look back at it in two or three more seasons time he will seem like he wasn't that much of a threat and while that's great for The White Rabbit. Yet for a character like Virgil he will need to be someone who can test Dante in every way possible as he already has the mental advantage over the character due to the fact that he's his brother but what we don't know is if he's physically stronger then him and that is something that could cause Dante to be a better character as now he would be truly tested as a hero.

As was mentioned at the start of this review this episode features a moment that has "American Idiot" by Green Day playing over it. This was something that was shocking as while the other episodes had rock songs in them heck the theme song for this show is "Rollin" by Limb Bizkit it was still weird hearing a cut down version of "American Idiot" playing over a montage where America decides to invade the demon world and capture alot of innocent demons as that song is all about pointing how dumb alot of things in America can be but it's done in a more comedic type of way and yet the scene it's played over is this deadly serious scene which only serves to make the song even more funnier as it's an upbeat and up tempo song with this being something that the shows creator Adi Shankar had to know as he's into rock music. To be fair tho having that song play over that sequence doesn't hurt the sequence as it makes it alot more fun to watch which might be the point as it's meant to be this really disturbing scene where the humans essentially become bad guy by attacking demons who have done nothing to them and yet there playing this really upbeat song that does make you want to sing along to it and heck one of the best things that this show does do is have these really cool songs play over key parts of an episode which is something that is bound to make people who aren't that much into rock music want to listen to more of it as while we get a good original song in episode by the band "Evanescence" and while this episode doesn't have any original songs in it the fact that they do manage to find a good and fun use for the truly iconic "American Idiot" is something that does tell you that the makers of this show know how to use there licensed music as it would have been very easy to have that song play over an action scene and call it a day but the fact that they don't does show that the makers of this show are willing to find to new ways to have these licensed songs playing in an episode of the show.

This episode is basically one long fight scene which is something that does make it hard to judge The White Rabbit as a villain. Due to the fact that he doesn't get the chance to talk alot of the time in this episode which is fair enough as we would have had all of the other episodes to get across just what he's like as a character but in all farness to this episode we do still find out what he's main plan is as he does want to take over the world for no good reason and while him wanting to take over the world is typical plan for any villain to have the fact that he is a demon is something that does make it feel unique again as he could very realistically take over the world on his own and the fact that he does manage to briefly merge the human world with the demon world is more then enough to make this character seem like a better threat. While the fact that he does mutate himself be taking a lot of demon blood is something that does feel like a boring thing for the character to do as the character was defeated at the end of the last episode the fact that he did come back in this episode does show you that he is truly insane and that it will take alot more then a good beating for him to get put down and the fact that he does allow himself to get mutated does make him more like this unstoppable beast as now Dante and Lady are truly struggling to even land a hit on him and it is something that does make him feel like more of a threat. However it would been better if the episode did devote more time to his character and give him more of a chance to show case why he is this truly threatening as while the other episodes would have done exactly that in this episode the character does feel more like an afterthought to the episodes action whereas if the episode did devote more time to him as a character then it would make his downfall and defeat all the more satisfying.

Now then this episode has / had an exactly grand total running time of exactly thirty two minuets and fifteen seconds. Which to be fair to this episode is pretty much the bogstandard running time for this show as alot of the episodes either have or have very similar running times to this episode and to be to the episode it really does need this amount of running time as it does have alot of plot to wrap up from the first season and still set up a potential main villain for the second season and it can't do all of that and still tell a good story on it's own and while it's debatable on if this episodes plot is any good what isn't debatable is the fact that this episode could have used a longer running time just to make the story even more stronger. With the plot of this episode having more the enough running time to cover that amount of running time in the first place and yet even so this episode doesn't really use its running time all that wisely as the episode doesn't take the time to fully develop its plot which OK fair enough the episode doesn't really have to do that as the episode had all of the other episodes to give its plot that development and therefor this episode doesn't need to have that plot development but at the same time given how thinly drawn out that this episodes plot is due to the fact that it is essentially just one long fight scene then there should have been some time given to give the episodes plot some small amount of plot development even if it's just something small it still would have been something. This is something that does kind of effect the episodes character development as well as none of the episodes characters get anything in the way of character development which in all fairness they didn't really need but at the same time it would have been all the more better if the episode did take the time to give the characters some small amount of character development but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. This episodes action is where the episodes does well and truly shine it's brightest as the episode is essentially one long action but whereas in something like Mad Max: Fury Road where that film would take small breaks to go more into the story and get you more invested with its characters this episode really doesn't need to do any of that due to the fact that it is a TV show and can therefor just go insane with it's action something which the episode does take great delight in doing and in doing so does give us alot of really fun and downright cool action scenes. With the best action scene in the whole entire episode being the opening roof top fight where Dante and Mary as well as a group of soldiers have to take on a fully mutated White Rabbit with him just lying the floor with them as White Rabbit rips of limbs and cuts open several of the soldiers with his blade and blows up several of there helicopters all the while both they and Dante and Mary are trying to kill him by shooting at him and yet all there bullets do is just bounce off of him. This is just such a freaking cool way to start of the episode as it lets you know right away that this episode is going to be very action packed and that is exactly what it is it's an action packed with the action never really letting up and getting more and more violent the longer that it goes on as the characters are forced to think outside of the box to even land a hit on The White Rabbit with the rest of the episodes action being just as good in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.    

Overall we are just a few short days away from the release of this shows second season and if this episode was anything to go by then we are in for one hell of a ride as this episode just gives you everything that you want to see in a Devil May Cry animated episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and a such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly an 8.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images hat I personally used in his very review from IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very post being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.