Great Film overall

Did you people see the same film I saw?

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Once you get past the fact it's supposedly inspired by a classic Elmore Leonard book and has no similarity whatsoever to the film, and get past the farcical elements like the bundled shooting off an 18th century British film in the Nevada desert, it's actually not bad. But Elmore Leonard's, this is not!!!

Huge fan of the movie and love the reboot of the idea for the show. When I heard Chris O'Dowd was the main guy I already knew it would be great. I can't think of a better guy for this role... and the rest of the cast is great. Ray Romano is perfect.I was so happy to hear this got a second season.. hopefully has many more!

This might have been the most enjoyable television so far seen in 2017.I really enjoyed Master of None, but this Chris O'Dowd actor made me want to see this series. Now, the SO and I watched -- not easy as it's only on epics --- every episode. Really, really looking forward to the next. And the next. And so on and so forth.You may begin to watch the series for Chris O'Dowd but you stay to watch Sean Bridgers. They both, and I mean both, are smartly and deftly played. I cannot tell if it's the direction, the actor, happenstance or all three, but it's worth every minute. Of course Lidia Porto has a role that no one will ever forget, either.Its a total of 10 episodes and you definitely want to begin with episode one. I let the SO begin somewhere afterwards and it only made us need to begin with episode one. So, if you tried to watch this in any other order than by one first, go back and watch one. You have to.That being said the charm rarely lets up and it's like a 10. Until...until...episode 10. Where it kinds of messes the bed. Not a bad mess mind you, just some duty where clean sheets ought to be. Maybe they think they are going to return for season 2? Maybe they ran out of ideas? In any event the finale is OK, just, not perfect.Perhaps when season II rolls out, we'll get that fixed. Enjoy

While most of the user reviews here love this show, I found the series opener slow and dull. The basic idea of a thug looking for a career change becoming a Hollywood producer is a good one, but the plot unfolds slowly and the series is more funny in theory than practice.It's perhaps not fair to compare the series with the movie, since star Chris O'Dowd is not playing the same character as John Travolta played in the movie and the series bills itself as "loosely based" on the book. But the important thing is not that Chris Dowd plays a different character, but that his sad-sack killer cannot hold one's attention the way Travolta did. I like Dowd in general, but I don't find him interesting here.Instead of slowly pulling me in, I felt the pilot was pushing me out; by the end I was desperate to move on.