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This director (Len Wiseman) clearly has the same problem (and obsession) as what J. J. Abrams has with fake lightbeams / screenflares. It's hugely distracting and these fake screenflares are used well over 100 times in the movie. Apart from that madness, the story is simply not believable and has many plotholes. I counted atleast 5 plotholes so big that you could jump an elephant through them. So the direction is bad, the story is bad, the plot is non-believable... the only thing in the movie that is good, is the visuals of the city and the futuristic landscape, which I'm certain they spend many, many millions on. Overall, it's just a bad movie and not anywhere close to being as good as the original from 1990 is.

I really put the majority of the failure of this Australian edition of the show, on the editing. The editing is AWFUL. Absolutely awful. The added beeping of the clock, as the seconds go past? Why even do that? They probably added HUNDREDS of beeps to the show, just for the freaking clock. It's highly irritating hearing that fake beep each time that the camera is aimed at the clock. And that's not even close to being the only unnecessary sound effects that they added in post... it's just a smorgasbord of terribly tacky and fake sound effects spread throughout the show. How is anyone supposed to concentrate on the 'comedy' when their ears are being bombarded with fake sound effects out of a cartoon every 5seconds? And why on earth can't you keep a camera still? Why is it necessary to pan the camera constantly, during the interview sections? KEEP THE CAMERA STILL. Honestly, the comedy on display is probably a 4/10 but the editing choices of the production team just completely destroy ANY enjoyment that could possibly have been gained from the show. Im glad it died after just one season, because it was completely unwatchable, and it's not the comedians' fault.

Think of EVERY action movie trope you can think of, and you'll find it in this movie. It's like the plot for this movie was written by a machine-learning algorithm after it was fed every bad action film from the past two decades... and then this movie was spat out. The plot has so many holes, it's basically a sieve. Jason Statham does a great job playing the action hero, but even the best actor on the planet couldn't make this hogwash story believable or real. It's so unrealistic and so badly written in many scenes that you can't help but chortle at the spectacle of it all. This movie didn't need to be made, but hollywood just couldn't help making another needless action movie.