Reviews

Someone put some funny mushrooms in the writer's tea pot. This was the result. Best enjoyed, only enjoyed, on the same mushroom tea from the magic tea pot.

Its rare to see a film with a strong moral core that doesn't moralise. Excellent nuanced performances, a well paced story that examines the complexity of information gathering, intelligence, and how Governments subvert the apparatus of the State to work for their own political interets.

The perfect movie: perfect script adaption, perfect casting, perfectly filmed and edited. Suitable for every age... over and over.

This is one of the great zombie comedy genre films, wry humour, good performances from an all-star cast and just enough splatter. It doesn't end well, another pleasant change for zombie movies that are usually redemption stories of some kind.

No, I've sat here for 5 minutes trying to think about where to start, but it is indescribably bad.

Concept was intruiging but just very very poor at every level from script writing, casting, directing, science. Just. Bad.

Battlestar Galactica, but set in the Pacific, and being a movie, rather than a multi-season television series, without the character development

By far the most enigmatic, surreal and interesting episode of the series, the only one like the original Twilight Zone of my childhood

It's not a Hollywood adventure blockbuster action film, it's unfair to criticize it for that. It's really a film about relationships, trauma and social expectations, and it does that quite well

A multi-million dollar budget and they can't afford a steady-cam? ...or a scriptwriter?

Lazy character development with race and gender stereotypes, lazy plot development, poor CGI, there's little to recommend this movie.

This is not a series for the action movie generation. There are no superheroes, no fast paced action scenes. Most disturbingly it s not an empowering series, it's a series about disempowerment, about complicity, about silence. This makes for disturbing viewing as the viewer is also passive, disempowered, and left to process disturbed affects. It evolves slowly, far too slowly from some, who prefer easy rapid solutions and happy resolutions, but that sense of slow unremitting oppression and suffocation is exactly what the show is written and filmed to convey. The show is paced so you feel trapped, feel like it's just taking too long, perhaps that's why there are comments here about how the pace could be 'improved' with a 3 episode series?

This won't make the show popular with everyone as the polarizing reviews here reflect, but it's such a pleasing change from the usual vapid shallow television that is the staple milk from the cathode ray nipple. I accept that the message here isn't subtle, but really, how do you write a subtle show about disempoerment and abuse?