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.

Daredevil: Born Again "The Southern Cross" SPOILER FILLED Review

Disney really is on a roll with there TV show finales as we've just had Maul: Shadow Lord kill it with it's first season finale and now we have another show it's final episode. With this episode also being really good as it more the pays off everything that was set up in not only this season but the first season as well and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the episode that really does change the game with the episode in question being called simply "The Southern Cross" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is with Karen still in court Matt must do what he can to prove that Wilson is evil and expose him for all of his crimes even it means doing something drastic. 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. To put it frankly this episodes plot works so well even if you remove the fact that it's a Marvel show as it is just such a well written plot that does get you invested in what's happening on screen and it keeps you hooked all the way to the very end of the episode. With the thing that makes this episodes plot work as well as it does is the fat that both this season and the first season where originally commissioned as one big season order before it was decided to split the episode count into two separate season with allowing the makers of this show to tell one whole story over two seasons with this episode of course forming the final chapter of that story with this helping the episode due to the fact that it's now given us the audience alot more longer to become in vested in these characters and in this story, while yes this episodes plot could have been alot more stronger in some places as not everything that you wont to see get resolved gets resolved the things that the episodes plot does well it does really well 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 Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock / Daredevil and Vincent D'Onofrio as Wilson Fisk / Kingpin. Also starring in this episode is Wilson Bethel as Benjamin Poindexter / Bullseye , Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page , Matthew Lillard as Mr. Charles , Margarita Levieva as Heather Glenn , Lili Taylor as Marge McCaffrey , Nikki M. James as Kirsten McDuffie , Arty Froushan as Buck Cashman , Zabryna Guevara as Sheila Rivera , Genneya Walton as BB Urich , Clark Johnson as Cherry , Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones , Hamish Allan-Headley as Connor Powell , Ruibo Qian as Angie Kim , Jeremy Isaiah Earl as Cole North , Camila Rodriguez as Angela Del Toro / White Tiger , John Benjamin Hickey as Benjamin Hochberg , Ashley Marie Ortiz as Soledad Ayala , Annie Parisse as Ariana Iacovou , Alexis Frias as Javi Espinosa , Roberto Lopez as Berto , Deirdre Lovejoy as Alicia Waters , Dustin Tucker as Grimes and John Hedges as Luna.

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. It's not really all that surprising that this episode has some really good acting in it as not only are a bunch of this episodes actors some really good actors in there own right but this show and by extension the first Daredevil TV show did always have some really good acting in it with this episode of course being of no exception as all of this episodes actors really do bring there A game to this episode something which they really didn't need to do. With the best actor in this entire episode being Vincent D'Onofrio as Wilson Fisk / Kingpin as he really does go through alot of emotions in this episode and may god do you see it all in his face as you see him go from calm to kind of playful in the scenes in the court but when the ace in the hole gets played you see him go from happy to anxious at the drop of a hat and then you see him go from anxious to down right angry and that is when that character is at his most dangerous and yet even then it doesn't stop as he goes from angry to sad and then from sad to at piece and all of this is something that Vincent does in not only his facial expressions but his body language as well and that is something that really does make you see just what this character is thinking and feeling at any given time and that is something that does come through in his performance. With the acting that's in this very episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so good that all this episodes actors have to do is just say te 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 that's in this very episode.

Doing the CGI for this episode is the legends and the greats thar are currently over at Ingenuity Studios. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI 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 CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. To be frank this episodes CGI was alot more better then what it really had any right to be as while the episode does make alot of use of digital doubles for it's characters especially during the third act there not as bad as have been in more recent productions as they do still move like real people with the only major thing being that they are doing things that the actors just can't do or it's unsafe for them to do them. While this show doesn't really use CGI all that much as really it's only used for extended the set and creating digital doubles of certain characters and that's really it the episode does take the time to add in things like buildings in the background or in the case of this episode some CGI light coming in the windows in some of the courtroom scenes and while alot of this is understandable as you might have to hide certain things like the camera or crew for example there really wasn't any need to add in some CGI light as you very easily could have shone a light through the window and created naturally and while the CGI version isn't that bad it is somethin that does stand out as everything around it is done for real and while it might have been added in in post to make the scene be more visually interesting this is something that should have been thought of while the episode was in production, yet to be fair to this episode alot of the hidden CGI in this episode does work really well as you can't tell what was added in later as opposed to what was done there on the day and that is exactly how CGI should be as it should always blend in and enhance the scene and not stand out and take away from it.

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Out of alot of the things that are in this episode one of the things that people are going to be talking is the fact that we get the return of Mike Colter as Luke Cage. With him appearing in the final few moments of the episode just to confirm that he and Jessica are now parents this a huge bombshell moment as even tho the two of them got together in Jessica Jones by the time that that show ended and Luke Cage began as a TV show he has dating someone else entirely and yet here he is not only back with Jessica but now a dad this is something that does change the game for those two characters as now there little girl could very well end up having superpowers of her very own. With both Luke Cage and Jessica Jones pretty much all but confirmed for the next season of Born Again it would be interesting to see where the show takes those characters given the fact that this episode ends with the family setting up a new version of "Alias Investigations" and given the fact that the two of them do now have a kid of there very own it would be more then interesting to see where the show goes with there characters and given the fact that this show does firmly love the Netflix shows so much it would be interesting to see them brining back in alot of the side characters from both shows just to see how those characters would react to seeing both Jessica and Luke back together again let alone seeing that there both up to there old ways of being super heroes once more as this is something that could lead to an interesting plot for the characters like maybe there daughter doesn't know that her mom and dad were former superheroes and has to come to terms with that over the course of the next season or they could do a one off special like that there doing with The Punisher: One Last Kill.

For one reason or another when it comes to there series finales Disney has been really on fire recently with both this show and Maul: Shadow Lord not only having great first and second outings in there own right but also having fantastic final episodes. This is something that should always be the case as plenty of TV shows have been ruined by having a bad finale and while both of those shows are confirmed to be getting new seasons the fact that they managed to have episodes that stick the landing as it goes is something that will make people look back on those respective shows alot more fondly yet if you were to take a look at something like for example Game Of Thrones which had several good seasons but it fell apart when it's final season was ending and therefor people don't look back on that show as fondly as they know where it's leading to. However with this show and this episode what it's leading to is a great episode where we get to see Matt Murdock reveal himself as Daredevil in the ultimate move to get Fisk to reveal to the whole of New York that he's a bad guy with it being done in a way that not only makes sense but also works for both characters as Matt calls Fisk to the stands and after several questions shows him the video that confirms that Daredevil was in the right with him saying that he is daredevil to back that up essentially all the while Fisk is almost daring him to do it as he knows that if Matt does go through with it that he will be locked up from the crimes that he committed as Daredevil with them both playing chess basically and daring the other one to make the wrong move first, that is somethin that does work well for both of these characters as Matt would of course do anything to help his friend and in this case his client and Wilson Fisk would do whatever it takes not only to clear his own name but to make sure that the people see him as being in the right the whole time.

Speaking of Matt and Wilson they get one of the best scenes in the episode together with the episode itself proving that a hero doesn't always need to punch his opponent into submission to get his to quit. With this episode having Matt talk Wilson into accepting an offer to step down as mayor of New York willingly and move away and never come back this is something that does prove that words can be just as effective as a punch to the face as while it would have been totally justified for Daredevil to beat the ever loving daylights out of Wilson all it would have done is prove him right and that all vigilantes are the bad guys yet by taking the opposite approach and having him use his words and using logic to get him to do it all willingly he is proving that not only to Wilson but to the people surrounding them both that violence isn't always the answer. This is something that works so well in the episode as while the Kingpin in his current frame of mind would be capable of rational thought due to the fact that he's just lost the only person who could ever hold him back he and Matt know this dance to well to know that the other won't quit whilst the other is still standing and therefor the only logical choice was him to accept the offer and willingly leave New York and start his life over again somewhere but even so it could be argued that Kingpin does get the last laugh as unlike Matt he is still free to do whatever he wants meanwhile Matt is now in jail for the crimes that he committed as Daredevil essentially leaving alot of New York without someone to protect it which does mean that Fisk or any other street level villain could swoop in and do alot of damage and Daredevil wouldn't be there to stop them and while we do see Karen putting the Muse mask there's tell on if she'll become a vigilante n Matt's absence.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly fifty one minuets and nine seconds. With this episode being one of the more longer episodes of this season of the show which is something that does make sense as this episode does essentially have to wrap up two seasons worth of stories and therefor it did need the extra running time to do exactly that but at the same time tho this episode could have done with loosing a few minuets around the middle of the episode as that's where the episode did start to drag a little bit not so much that it hurts the episodes overall pacing but enough so that you do start to notice it a a little bit with the episode on the whole having the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place. Yet in saying this tho the episode really doesn't use its running time all that wisely as the episode doesn't fully develop its plot which in all fairness it really doesn't have to do that given the fact that this is the final episode of the season and therefor it wouldn't make sense for them to fully develop this episodes plot but at the same time tho the episode does spend time on a prolog scene with Matt being arrested and sent to jail and then showing a clearly distraught Karen putting on the Muse mask when all of that is something that could have been covered in a montage at the end as we don't need to see whole scenes explaining all of that as all that does is eat up screen time that could have been spent on developing the episodes plot. The episode kind of doesn't even fully develop its characters either which again isn't that big of an issue in this case as it doesn't have to do that in the final episode but they don't even reveal who Mr. Charles really when that's something that could have done as that would have added something of interest to his character but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is ana action how 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. The fact that this episodes action is as good as it is isn't something that shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone as people who have watched this show will know that when this show gives us a really cool action scene it is something that is worth talking about and that is very much the case with this episode as even tho the episode only has the one action may god is it one that's worth talking about. With the best action scene in the whole entire episode being the attack on the courthouse as that scene is just so well done as we get to see Fisk punching and headbutting innocent New Yorkers all the while his own task force is hunting down and trying to kill Matt , Jessica and there friends which leads to both Matt and Jessica having to take out entire waves of them on there own with the whole sequence being very well edited and put together as we do get to see just how desperate that both sets of characters are with the thing that makes the whole thing wrong being the fact that it was something that was built up in another episode of this same season as earlier on we had an entire episode where the people of New York had finally had enough and were trying let there feelings beard and Fisk's task force got violent with them and yet here when they do it again the people don't back down and they are et into the building and that one thing is something that makes that whole scene work with the rest of the episodes action just as good in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall next week Punisher special has alot to live up as this episode no scratch that this whole season has just been so good that we are now closer then we have been in the past several years to finally saying that the MCU is back on track as this episode gives us a satisfying ending to a really good second season in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the god and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very show really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 9.5 out of 10 and the episode earns itself a 9.5 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 pf the images tat 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 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.

Daredevil: Born Again "The Northern Star" SPOILER FILLED Review

 

It is a very rare thing for a show set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to be given a season 2 as all of them end after there first season. Which is something that does make this show kind of special as it was greenlit with a two season order with each season being really around nine or eight episodes each and will second season has just started and since I loved the first season it really only made sense that I check out this episode and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the episode that sees Matt get a new suit with the episode in question being called simply just "The Northern Star" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is sometime after the events of the last season New York is still truly under Fisk's thumb and Matt has to try and find any kind of evidence that can be linked to Fisk in order to help to bring him down. 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 not that bad. With the episodes plot doing a good job of not only catching us up with where the characters are now but also in carrying on the plot for the first season with that plot still being as gripping as it was back in season one yet just based off of this episode it does look like that this season won't add anything to the shows overall plot which is something that does somewhat make sense as this shows plot was devised mostly with that two season order in mind and yet the plot of this episode still does feel like it's own unique thing as you don't really have to have watched the previous season to get the plot of this episode. Yet the thing that does let down this episodes plot is the fact that it's not the strongest plot to start the season out with and with any TV show you always want to start with your best foot forward with this episodes plot feeling very weak and like it was thought up very quickly as alot of what was said in this episode does appear to be nothing all that major with the plot of this episode 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 Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock / Daredevil and Vincent D'Onofrio as Wilson Fisk. Also starring in this episode is Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page , Margarita Levieva as Heather Glenn , Matthew Lillard as Mr. Charles , Tony Dalton as Jack Duquesne , Michael Gandolfini as Daniel Blake , Nikki M. James as Kirsten McDuffie , Arty Froushan as Buck Cashman , Genneya Walton as BB Urich , Zabryna Guevara as Sheila Rivera , Clark Johnson as Cherry , Ayelet Zurer as Vanessa Fisk , Hamish Allan-Headley as Connor Powell , Ty Jones as Steverud , John Benjamin Hickey as Benjamin Hochberg , Thomas Cokenias as Achilleo Kyriaco , Yorgos Karamihos as Christofi Savva , Annie Parisse as Ariana , Lenny Platt as Juan Gomez and Michael Anthony Cruz as Longshoreman.

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 not that bad. With all of this shows main actors giving us some really good performances which given just whom is starring in this episode is something that was quite frankly to be expected where te acting does somewhat start to faulter is with it's guest actors as alot of them either overact in every scene that there in or show next to no emotion in scenes that do require emotion with the best example of this being in the episodes opening where a ships captain and his possibly second in command are talking while Daredevil is attacking there ship and yet they both don't show any kind of urgency as they play it off as being just another day at the office for them when this is something that would require alot of emotion. With the best actor in this episode being Matthew Lillard as Mr. Charles as not only does Matthew Lillard prove once again why he's a good actor and why he's having some really good few years acting wise but he does come across as being a less cocky version of Fisk himself with him and Vincent D'Onofrio really having some really good chemistry together which is something that does make all of there scenes together all the mor fun to watch. With the acting that's in this episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so good that all this episodes 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 episode.

 

Doing the CGI for this episode is Ingenuity Studios and the legends and the greats that are currently over at RISE Visual Effects Studios. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI 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 CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. With this episode mainly using CGI in the way that it should be used as it's only used to extend sets and that's really it so no need to to fear there is no CGI smoke in this episode with the episode very much like the show on the whole preferring to us practical effects over CGI effects with the episodes practical effects working really well and blending it well with the episodes CGI. The episode does even manage to gave some fairly convincing looking water effects which is impressive on it's own as water is one of the most difficult things to get right on a feature film budget let alone on a streaming show budget and while they don't quite get it right here given that the scene that it appears in as at night it is forgivable even taking into account that this is a Disney show while there are some kind of bad looking green screen effects done on certain characters it's not really all that distracting it's just something that you will notice and that's really it but to be fair to this episode tho this show isn't an effects heavy show it never was in the first season and it looks like that's going to be true for this season as well and therefor for them to have good looking effects that blend in really well with what filmed for real is still something that's truly special to be hold.

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To be blunt Fisk in this episode doesn't really have that much on an impact on the episode as a whole as the only thing that he does is tell his task force officers to track down the two people on the ship and have a meeting with Mr. Charles. Which fair enough is still a solid enough way to use the character but when you bare in mind that season one of this show used the character so well by showing him being this manipulative person who is really willing to do whatever it takes to achieve his goals it makes what they do with him in this episode feel less impactful as they could have shown him and his wife filming fake videos to release to the public which is something that does get shown quite alot in this episode and they could have shown him getting mad when he finds out that one of his boats was attacked just something that would let us the audience know that Daredevil is starting to get to him and that he's starting to loose it. Yet at the same time tho the fact that they don't do any of that does make you wonder what he's really thinking as we all know from both the Netflix show and this shows first season that Wilson Fisk is a character who is always thinking two or three moves ahead of everyone else and therefor when he discovers that one of his boats was attacked he would already be thinking of ways to hurt or persons responsible for the attack in the first place and heck it could even be argued that this character is more scary when we don't see him react to it as we know just how evil that this character really is in the first place and while it is of course far two early to work out just what his grand scheme is for New York we know that it is something that is going to be scary just due to the fact that he is a creepy and scary character.

Much like how in the first episode of the previous season where they killed of Foggy Nelson here in this episode they hint at the fact that Cherry might be dead. Due to the fact that at the end of the episode when members of the task force come to interrogate him they give him a beating which his heart can't handle and starts to suffer a heart attack right there as Matt as Daredevil is trying to fight them off. With it being that very incident that made this review got from a SPOILER FREE review to a SPOILER FILLED review as while Cherry isn't as beloved of a character as Foggy was he was still a core member of Matt's inner circle of friends and having the episode eve hint at him dying was something that will be shocking thing to see but it is one that could have been handled more better due to the fact that they have it be the episodes cliff hanger which don't get wrong is a great cliff hanger to have as it makes you want to watch episode two of this show. On the flip side of that tho is the fact that it's pretty obvious that there not going to kill him off as then they would risk repeating everything that they did in the first season with Foggy's death and even then his death only worked due to the fact that the character appeared on the Netflix show and therefor the fans of that show already have that connection to his character where as here with Cherry he's a newly introduced character and therefor having him be killed of in a way that granted is still quite shocking to see just wouldn't have the same effect as when Foggy was killed of. However tho having Cherry be the one to possibly die would be a great way to rise the stakes a little bit as it would still tell us the audience that if this character can die then maybe Matt himself can die.

Also in that ending scene we do get a hint that Bullseye is going to be playing a big part in either the rest of the season or the next episode. As we see a knife come into Cherry's apartment and take out all of the task force agents which if so is going to make for an interesting next few episodes as it was him that killed of Foggy so having him and Matt sort of form a team even tho that both don't like each other is something that will make it interesting to see if they both can get along for the greater good and heck even the tease of him coming back in the next episode is a solid way to end the episode as now we the audience get to make theories on if he's going to be working with Matt or not or if he's saving Matt so that he can take him down himself. All of which are things that would work well for his character as while I never saw that much of the Netflix show based on his few appearances in the previous season of this show he does seem like the kind of character who would want to save the man that did try to kill him just so that he could be the one to deliver the killing blow himself but of course there could be another reason as to why he was teased at the end of this episode all of which do make this show fun to watch as there are so many theories that we all could come up with and the best part of all is that until any of them are confirmed by the show itself they could all be true and yet knowing the makers of this show there going to do the one thing that none of us would have thought of what it ends up being. While yes it would have worked just as well if they did show us the character even if it's just quickly very early on in the episode the fact that they didn't do that makes his possible return at the end of the episode all the more exciting.

Now then this film has / had an exact gran total running time of exactly fifty minuets and forty two seconds. Which to be fair to this episode is pretty much the bogstandard running time for this shows episodes to have in the first place with this episode having just about the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place. Yet this episode really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as the episode doesn't take the time to fully develop it's plot with the plot of the episode feeling like it's playing second fiddle to everything else that's going on in the episode and yet when you compare it to the plot of the first episode of the previous season that episodes plot was as well developed as it was going to be given the fact that it was the first episode of a new show and yet here in this episode it felt like the makers of this show forgot how to make a good first episode as everything just felt very by the numbers with very little of what the episodes plot does do feeling earned. With the same thing being true for the episodes characters as well altho here you could make the argument that all of them don't really need there character development as alot of the older characters would of course have had the Netflix show and the first season of this show to get there character development which is fair enough and for the new characters you could make the case that they are going to be getting there character development in future episodes of this season but either way it still would have been nice if we got to find something literally anything about this episodes new characters as we find out nothing about Mr. Charles outside of possibly where was born and we get to find out nothing about Ariana this is despite the fact that she's technically a major character in this episode 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 gave to actually talk about the action 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. With the episode having all of the really good action that you have come to expect from this show not only from the previous season but also from the Netflix show as well with the episodes action looking as impressive as you'd want it to be given the fact that it's Daredevil and to the episodes credit it doesn't shy away from showing the hero getting beaten up something which they very easily could have done but the fact that they didn't do that does oddly make Matt Murdock seem more human. With the best action scene un the whole entire episode being the episodes opening scene as we get to see Matt as daredevil take on several guys basically at once in the cargo area of a ship with him flipping them into boxes and knocking them all out in really creative ways all which does make that action really fun to watch as much like how the action in the opening of James Bond film gets you excited for the rest of the film it could be argued that that's what that opening action scene does. The episode does even somewhat contrast that by having a more smaller action scene at the end of the episode where daredevil now has to take about four task force agents in Cherry's home with Daredevil winning the fight until he hears Cherry's heart and realizes what's going on which does give those agents the moment that they need to go in for the kill with them only being stopped by Bullseye's knife attacking and killing all four of them with the rest of the action in this episode being really good in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall for an episode that was barely promoted as there's only really been one trailer and three posters released for this new season this episode is still a really good as it does a good job of setting up the rest of the season whilst doing the one thing that all good first episodes should do and that's make you want to watch episode two as that's just how good that this episode really is in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well a all of the bad thigs that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does ern itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 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 an 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 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.

Wonder Man TV Series SPOILER FILLED Review

Marvel releases alot of new shows and movies all of the time and yet they always give them alot of fanfare. Yet what many of you might not realize is the fact that they have a new show coming out and yet there remaining radio silent on it this is despite the fact that there usually really good when it comes to promoting things set in the MCU and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the show that is basically a comedy show with the show in question being called simply just "Wonder Man" enjoy.

The plot of this show is when he goes up for a starring role in the remake of Wonder Man Simon Williams not only has to confront his own past but also the fact that Hollywood no longer excepts superheroes as actors all while dealing with Trevor Slattery. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show 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 show was in all honesty not that bad with this shows plot being one that you can see all pf the plot twists coming a mile away but due to how fun that the plot of this show you kind of don't mind that as what makes this shows plot work as well as it does is the character interactions between Simon and Trevor as they do bring out the best in each other and to be fair we do get some really fun and funny scenes with them but just because there interactions are nice doesn't make up for the fact that the plot of this show is one that is on of the weak side of things with this shows plot being so weak hat at times it was hard to tell just what the plot of the show was even meant to be in the first place as for a large portion of the show they just drop the part where both characters are up for roles in this movie and while that might be understandable if this show was twenty two episodes long as then you can have episodes that don't focus on the plot here tho as this is only eight episodes long every episode of the show needs to be about advancing the plot of the show with the plot of this show really being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this show is Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Simon Williams ,  Arian Moayed as P. Cleary and X Mayo as Janelle Jackson. Also starring in this show is Zlatko Burić as Von Kovak , Joe Pantoliano as Himself , Demetrius Grosse as Eric Williams , Ed Harris as Neal Saroyan , Byron Bowers as DeMarr Davis / Doorman , Juliette Ortega as Melanie , Olivia Thirlby as Vivian , Shola Adewusi as Martha Williams , Dane Larsen as Brent Willard and Sir Ben Kingsley as Trevor Slattery.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show 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 show was in all honesty really good. With it being crystal clear that all of this shows main actors really do know how to turn in a really good performance something which is helped by the fact that he show is lead by two really good actors in Sir Ben Kingsley and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II with the two of them having some really good chemistry with each other something which does help with there performances as it helps to make there friendship with each other feel more real and less forced with the pair of them even being the best actors in the whole entire show as the two of them really do get to show us just what it is that that they can do as actors and while Sir Ben Kingsley has been playing the role Trevor Slattery on and off for about ten years now and therefor does know how best to perform this character and still make him the lovable goofball that he is something he does put to good use in this show with Yahya Abdul-Mateen II being just as good with him proving that he can do the dramatic aspects of the show as well as the more comedic aspects as well with the acting that's in this very show really being helped by the fact that the scripts for this show are just so good that all this shows 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 show.

For one I really cannot tell you just who it was that did the CGI for this show as there's no effects companies listen anywhere online. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show 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 show was in all honesty really good while there really isn't alot of CGI in this show with the show using more practical effects that CGI effects what little effects that they do have in the show do look good with the show not only using CGI to create things like Simons powers or things like the ship in the original Wonder Man but also to do basic things like extent the set which is how CGI should be used as then your putting more of a focus on practical effects and while yes granted there will always be a heavy focus on CGI when it comes to superhero adaptations those that that blend the two together often come out all the more better as there effects come across as being more timeless as you can't tell what was really and what was done in a computer whereas with something like Attack Of The Clines or Rebel Moon both of which had next to nothing what was shot practically there effects now come across as being more dated and obvious to point out and yet with shows like this one it helps the show that you can't really tell what was real and what was done in a computer as that's what we've been trained to do these days due to there being so much CGI in both films and TV shows alike that it does come across as being really refreshing to see a show not use that much CGI and only use what was there practically on the day of filming.

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It has been started by one of this shows executive producers Brad Winderbaum that this shows actually concludes a trilogy of stories. That trilogy being the fall and rise of Trevor Slattery a story which started all the way back in Iron Man 3 and continued in Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings with his story not really ending as while he does get sent back to prison this time it's a fully powered Simon that comes to help out his best friend after he pretended to be The Mandarin again after Simon accidentally uses his powers to cause an explosion to happen on the set of Wonder Man with this being something that the Trevor seen all the way back in Iron Man 3 would never have done as he was to much of a selfish person to do and yet due to what he went through and learnt in Shang-Chi he is able to form these kinds of bonds of people whilst still being his lovable goofy self with him here being pretty much forced to work for the Department Of Damage Control inorder to try and bring Simon in as they believe him to be this evil powerful person due to what's happened in his past and yet once he and Simon become these close friends Trevor decides to not work for them even tho it would mean him getting put back into jail due to his past crimes and while his story isn't by any means done as there are ways that you could bring Trevor back if this was the end of the character in the MCU then it would be a nice end for the character as he does in his own unique way get his happy ending and considering the fact that alot of heroes are now technically friends with him then it does open the door for Simon meeting up with Shang-Chi as well.

As villains the Department Of Damage Control aren't that very threatening as villains as for large portions of the show they don't really do any thing at all. With them only showing up very briefly once every few episodes if that and even then the only character one of them interacts with is Trevor himself and that's it when it would made more sense when towards the end of the show that they started interacting with Simon just as much as well as by the end of episode seven he finds out that Trevor has been working for them by spying on him anyway so it would make sense to have them come in and be more of a threat thus forcing Simon to use his powers and prove to not only them but other people as well that his powers aren't a threat to them and while yes there is chance that the department as a whole could play a much more bigger role on the films and be a bigger threat in the movies which is something that would make alot of sense as you want to save your bigger threats for the movies all that could do is make this shows version of them seem all the more weaker then what they already are as here they fail to capture one man but in all fairness to this show they are uses as effectively as they could have dine given the shows premise which does allow for the show to put more of a focus on the bond between Trevor and Simon with that being something that doesn't allow for a good villain and yet at the same time by not giving us a good villain all this does is make the films central heroes look all the more weaker because of it when if Simon and Trevor had a stronger threat to overcome then they would both come across as being more stronger characters because of it.

For some odd reason the makers of this show don't go as far as they could when it comes to the original Wonder Man film. As while they do show us alot of the film which is said to be made sometime between the fifties and seventies they don't go all the way by not making the film look like it was made it whatever time it was meant to be made in as all of the effects in that film look really good and look like the type of effects that you'd find in films today with there not even being a break in the film either when both of those things are things that would have added some extra authenticity to the film and heck the original film doesn't even have the kind of bad acting that alot of those types films had back in the day but again to the shows credit they go as far into the remake culture as they perhaps could have done by having Simon fight for his Wonder Man glasses to be as close to the ones that were worn in the original film and while they don't go as far into how bad making a franchise film ca be like The Franchise did they do go quite far into what making a movie is like by having Simon's character arc being not to overthink things and ask to many questions about his characters ad instead just be in the moment something which Trevor does help him with but at the same time tho it would have been if the show did spend more time in giving us both the positive and negative aspects of being in a remake be it from the studio wanting to do something different with the character and the fans wanting things to stay the same as this is something that is relevant to today's film industry and will remain relevant for as long as people are willing to remake things but for one reason or another the makers of this show don't do any of that.

Now then this show has / had an exact grand total running time of no longer then thirty four minuets and five seconds. With each episode being around about thirty minuets in length which to be fair to this show is a solid running time for this show to have with the show having more then enough plot there to really cover that amount of running time and yet whilst the show is eight episodes long that does feel more like it's holding the show back as there are times where the show doesn't focus on it's plot alot of the time when it really didn't have the episode count to do that where as if this show was a few more episodes longer then they would have had the episodes there to take a break from it's plot with this also allowing the show to take the time to fully develop it's plot alot more then what it really has the chance to do so as right now the show has to rush along its plot when taking it's time and making things more fully developed would help the show out quite alot with this having the add on effect of making the films character development work as well as the show doesn't really take the time to give alot of the characters any kind of character development as the only two characters that get development in this show are Trevor and Simon and even then Trevor doesn't really need it to the fact that's appeared in a few of the MCU films where as it would have been more interesting to see more of the shows characters get some character development something which they would have been able to get if this shows was even just two episodes longer but I really will admit that this show really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty not that bad. With the makers of this show really knowing that they can get some good comedy out of it's two leading characters as they get alot of jokes in the episode which granted doesn't always work but when it does work that's when you get to see just how funny that this show really can be with the best joke in the whole episode being in episode "Found Footage" when Trevor gets harassed by some gang members due to what something he did in his past and Simon uses his powers to stop them only for them to get caught on camera something they both at first hopefully believe that the person filming them didn't see them doing it only for it to very slowly dawn on the pair of them that yeah he did see them with the episode the spending a good few minuets just on Trevor and Simon trying to chase down this one person who is on park whilst they are stuck in LA traffic which was a nice little touch as it is something that would make sense given just how bad the traffic in LA is meant to be in the first place and therefor having these two people trying to chase down this one person in this town is something that will always be comedic gold with the show having quite alot of other good jokes in it as well all of which work because of the fact that they feel like there very character driven jokes in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall its hard to call this show bad as the idea behind the show is one that is really good but at the same time tho it's hard to call it a good show either as the show doesn't really commit to any of it's ideas and instead chooses to play things safe when this is a show that should have been much more braver and much more thought out 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 show in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very show really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6 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 show 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 show with alot of them 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 are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.