Twisted Metal

Everyone simply seems to be having more fun this year, and that can be infectious. If the first season felt like an obligation to ride a wave of video game adaptations, the second feels like an honest effort to satisfy both fans of the games and those who never played them. The result is a season that finds its tone in ways that the first never did.

This is a screen-popping, wickedly funny, seriously twisted and action-jammed adventure that leaves us wanting more. Think “Mad Max” meets “A Clockwork Orange,” with a little bit of the aforementioned “The Last of Us” as well as “The Walking Dead” sprinkled in like so many scoops of lemon pepper.

Season 2 gives us a satisfying deepening of the characters and lore, though some of build up to the climactic Twisted Metal match gets repetitive as it moves from one random death race to another.

Although its late-stage tie-ins to its source material and cliffhanger ending didn’t do much for me, and I have a general allergy towards its brand of blood-splattered gags, the characterization of these endearing misfits left me eager to see what stretch of road they’d visit next.

Fans of the games will be thrilled by Sweet Tooth’s scene-stealing brio, if not the structure of the show’s premise; we have another Mortal Kombat (2021) situation on our hands, an adaptation that serves primarily as a set-up for more to come. But if low-budget and low-brow bloodletting is your thing, there are far worse roads to travel.

Its general mode of operating is to put in whatever seems cool and fun and silly and sick and leave out anything that does not meet those parameters. Yes to: guns, cars, sardonic needle drops, wisecracks, blood, sex, flash, grime, the sound of tires on pavement, shit that looks dope. No to: quietness, finicky world-building, thinking too hard about the limitations of the human body, complex motivations, depth, taking stuff too seriously, man.

John and Quiet squabble in painfully contrived fashion, resulting in reheated monologues about trust and vengeance that would play poorly in any context but are particularly galling here, padding the runtime of an otherwise interminably wacky series.

Twisted Metal is a wildly entertaining series — packed with humor, action, and charm, it’s one of the most fun adaptations in years.

An interesting take on the PlayStation game which itself was inspired by a slew of similar post apocalyptic road movies a LA mad max **** fun as it is dumb with some occasionally interesting action scenes and amusing quippy dialogue. Soundtrack is great too with a decent visual effects budget too. There was little here to challenge the mind with and the world building is shallow and tropey. Despite all that I found it passed the time nicely.

Yet another video game that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world is adapted to the screen. The major cities in the US are protected by giant walls and armed guards, while the rest of the country is wild and dangerous anarchy. Anthony Mackie plays a "milkman," who specializes in braving the continuous attacks to deliver goods between cities. His comic sensibilities serve his well as he wise cracks his way thru the villains…with the help of a souped-up car and lots of weapons. Pretty soon, he's paired up with a sullen woman (Stephanie Beatriz) and their friendship/rivalry forms the movie's core relationship. Her gruff attitude and dry delivery add punch to the duo's chemistry. Since this was created by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the duo behind Zombieland and the Deadpool films, you can expect plenty of off-hand violence followed by an off-hand quip. Given this pedigree you might hope for something extra, but even with the upbeat action and smart aleck lines, it only occasionally generates mild excitement.

This is an embarrassing attempt to televise a mindlessly violent video game franchise that ... well ... succeeds at being mindless and violent, but not much else. The humor is low brow, the characters are silly and unappealing, and the plot is uninteresting. The only worthwhile contribution is from an overweight, murderous clown who makes thoughtful observations about the human condition.

This show could have been amazing, with the right Director or creator behind it. But instead we got a horribly done show that is mostly a bad comedy. I was expecting funny silly jokes but good ones, this right here is some of the worst comedy ever. This show needed a director like the guy who directed Starship Troopers or say Miike. Someone who doesn't give a damn and just gives you a crazy nutty show with the right feel to it. Because what we have here is just a silly mess, bad jokes, bad dialogue, bad acting, bad effects and some of the worst humor ever. Twisted Metal is one of my favorite game series ever, I was stoked a show was coming out to, but this here is beyond terrible, its bad in every single aspect. After the wonderful Last Of Us, I thought this one might turn out good to, but nope, its up there wit Halo as the worst shows ever based on videogames. TRASH.