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ignore the suspect poster reviews and avoid this America - appalling!!


well this now gets a U.S. release and I have to say the two reviews plastered on its poster i.e. "Gripping and gruesomely witty ****" from the main UK tv guide Radio times magazine and "An ambitious sci-fi shocker with big frights" from UK Daily Express newspaper are utter bull and so off the mark its not just an absolute joke but so obviously a case where the reviewers were either bought off or the publications buttered up with advertising by the film distributors.
It's not even good enough standard for a TV screening never mind how they can put it out in cinemas with blatantly false and wrong praise in its marketing which is a complete con - avoid it American friends of you'll kick yourself at what a waste of your money it would be!!!

Film reviews in general have got so questionable it's are disgraceful how they try fool the public and the film companies should be done for false advertising or refund people when this happens. The "Taken 2" poster here in Ireland and the UK has had to be withdrawn as the reviews on it including "Move over 007, it's better than bond" and "*****" were totally fabricated and never even appeared in the reviews/press they were attributed to!!! Tankfully in this case people did report it to media and advertising watchdogs (undoubtedly stung from having seen what a dud film it so obviously is) and the distributors had to withdraw their marketing material, issue a public apology and the resulting publicity backfired on them by only highlighting just how far from 5 star or "Skyline" standard their lousy film is.

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