DreamCatcher7

I sat down with my husband looking forward to seeing this series as it had gotten such great reviews on IMDb - but I was very quickly really disappointed.

The contrived, silly, cliché-filled of vampire and how they move predator like is one thing. I can almost live with.

But the acting.... is really, really bad and I'm now halfway into season 2 and apart from Steven Cree as Gallowlglass, none of the actors have any charisma or screen presence at all. In fact, it's like watching a cheap soap.

And then there are the sets... there needs to be thrown a heck of a lot more money into this before this will work at all.

Another thing is there is absolutely zero chemistry between the series' various couples... Hard to believe in the grande love story. In fact, it's unbelievable.

Scripts are poor, special effects are poor, story is poor, fighting sequences are poor. No, it's a crap series fit for children and young adults only.

I read the books before seeing the movie and I think this adaption of the first (out of two) books is great and exactly what I had hoped it to be. It's entertaining, it's funny, it's quirky. It's a bit touching. Alfie Allen sings like a dream and is a gift in this (as he usually is in anything he's in) and Beanie Feldstein does a great job as Johanna/Dolly Wilde. I wish the two of them had more screen time together - that's my only complaint, really. Here's to hoping for a sequel if they chose to film book no. 2 as well.

Some years ago, I rented this movie for Johnny Depp's looks alone - and still, I was sorrily disappointed.

I found the story telling slow where it needed pace and too fast where it needed time. This can be blamed on the director and editor, of course.

Actingwise, I never felt that Depp was a great talent and he certainly did not manage to make me feel anything for his character at all in this particular movie. Not even dislike.

All in all, to me, this movie was a dull, unnecessary, and depressing experience which i cannot recommend to any body.