ArmedBear (Level 27)

Reviewing any sort of fictional narrative can be a difficult endeavor.  There is no line between art and garbage.  There is only perspective.  A review therefore is only a reflection of one's own collected perspective.  Different reviews will yield different results because of disparate perspectives.  
 
I review fictional narratives (whether that be movies, TV, books, video game story lines) based on two questions.  What happens next?  Do I give a shit?  These are two basic questions that can be applied to most anything that qualifies as entertainment.  
 
How well those two questions are answered is my basis for a positive or a negative review.  I'll throw an example out.  In the case of The Proposal, I know what is going to happen next because it is a Hollywood romantic comedy.  It's predictable stuff at this point.  I ended up liking the movie because I cared about the characters.  Another example would be Inception, which I loved, because I had no idea what was happening but I cared about what was going to happen next.   On the negative side, there is Attack of the Clones.  I hated that movie for several reasons, but most importantly I knew what was going to ultimately happen, and I couldn't give a shit less because the acting, the characters, the directing, and the story were all rather poor.
 
These two simple questions could yield a hundred thousand different answers.  It is not the basis for debate and discussion, as different questions will yield all sorts of angles for discussion.  'What happens next' and 'Do I give a shit' are my personal ways to come to an immediate conclusion on the impact of a narrative on me.  Keeping those two questions in my mind has worked well as a measurement of how well I was engaged.