Poor streaming  quality, couldn't even watch half way
345130
Very poor streaming - watched less than half of the movie - hoping will issue a refund!
2327594
Review concerns the streaming quality of the film, which was enjoyable. Unwatchable due to very poor streaming quality of the SD version of film. Constantly stopped for "loading" every few minutes. My TV is an older one, so I choose the SD version instead of the HD version. I ended up renting the HD version as well just to be able to watch the movie and this version worked fine on my TV.
 So choose HD version even if you have an older TV....worked fine with HD but I found out the hard way after having to rent both versions.

I'd like to add that Amazon did give me a refund for the SD rental, which was great of them.
2933422
I rented this because my kids are getting into X files, and we reached that point in the plotline where they needed to see the movie.  Although I enjoyed the movie, the streaming was beyond tedious.  This 2 hour movie took over 3 hours to view, stopping every 1-3 minutes for buffering.  Next time, I think I'll just find a videostore.
2840389
Thought Mark Wahlberg was great. Not a huge fan of Seth MacFarlane, but overall the movie provided some good laughs.

More importantly... I'm unimpressed with the quality of the HD stream provided by Amazon.  I've got my Panasonic TV connected directly to my router, comcast xfinity internet (not as good as it gets... but definitely should be enough to stream HD over a hard connection), and half of the time the movie is streaming choppy and blurry.  If Amazon is going to charge extra for an HD rental... you would think they could provide a slightly better streaming/buffering system to keep a quality stream throughout the entire movie.

I thought Amazon's video service would be a better option than Comcast OnDemand... I guess I thought wrong.
2358509
We found the Amazon Instant Video service to be extremely frustrating. The excellent show was continually interrupted so the video stream could buffer. I'll be borrowing the DVDs from the library instead of using Amazon Instant Video again.
459000
Sorry to say it was unwatchable because it kept jumping and the audio didn't even sync with the image ... I'll rent a DVD next time...:-(
2290965
I was in such a hurry to see this season of Dexter that I jumped the gun and bought it as a download through Amazon. I was really dissapointed in the quality of the streaming. I had previously bought a season on my ipad which was basically equivalent to viewing the season on a regular DVD in terms of quality and comfort. Watching this on my computer was agony--streaming didn't work or was spotty and the visuals were ruined. I will probably end up buying the season and watching it again on a regular DVD. I definitely won't buy anything that is stored off my computer again.
1806759
This player has really poor streaming performance, and is sluggish in general to respond to button presses on the remote.  I used it for slightly more than a week, and I had to power-cycle it to resolve lock-ups at least four times.  Once it gave me an error about insufficient memory after I'd been using one streaming app and then opened another.  Returned.
1342775
The movie was great but the streaming video quality through Amazon was so pixelated. It made watching the action scenes so difficult, we finally gave up. I'm noticing this quite a bit with Amazon Instant video.
3211280
HATED this movie.  Poor story line, totally predictable and bad bad acting.  Sorry that I purchased it...of course the streaming itself was flawless!

I thought it would be a mindless comedy--sometimes I'm in the mood for one of those.  Nope, this wasn't funny and was more annoying than anything!
4696237
after reading a considerable amount about this film, and not being able to 'rent' it from netflix, i decided to purchase this dvd here on amazon.

i put it in the dvd player tonight, and couldn't get more then 10 minutes into it as the dvd quality was so bad. now i am not speaking of grain or a bad transfer, i mean the dvd itself was literally so flawed i couldn't watch, or even hear it after a few minutes.

the screen would pixelize every few seconds, the screen would halt every few seconds, and the sound would halt every few seconds, usually with an overlap of issues at the same time.

i still really would like to watch this movie, but unfortunately i can not do that with this copy. i'm also not sure i would be willing to go out on a limb to buy another copy in case this issue is rampant.

a big darn on this one. if anyone knows of a digital way in which i can see this film, please do let me know.
1088822
It's not that I disliked the movie at all, because I never got the chance to watch it.  It kept rebuffering every 2 minutes and, after about a half-hour of trying, we gave up and switched back to Netflix which doesn't have this movie, (at least that we've found) but does load and play smoothly...  :_(
3545218
I was excited to watch this, rented it and could not concentrate on the movie because the quality was worse than an old bootleg movie. I should also point out that have very fast internet speeds.
4316430
This film would not buffer well, and the image was grainy. How do I get credit on this, it was unwatchable.
1449741
Streaming quality was poor as the color gradations in the sea and sky were highly pixelated with macro-blocking throughout. Almost unwatchable in sections. Film is interesting but hard to enjoy with poor streaming quality. Can't imagine how 4K can be streamed effectively.
4868629
Low quality. Cannot replay. When connecting to app to watch when were away it say error and does not work. Really dissatisfied
2692829
Unfunny, gratuitous vulgarity, unwatchable.