brewster139

Anyone who can independently fund, produce and release a film using a small budget deserves huge respect. Especially given the fact they have so little talent at their disposal.

I saw the 2.5 rating but I weighed that up against the idea of potentially seeing some "hot" amazon warriors fighting dragons. Who wouldn't like that?

Unfortunately those amazon warriors were about as convincing as the UK's current response to the Covid pandemic. I would urge people to avoid this film and frankly I've been too generous with my rating.

Why is it bad? Awful, awful sound, criminal acting, terrible script, painful and at times childlike direction and a meandering storyline that is just banal at best. Give it a miss and definitely under no circumstances pay to watch this.

When an ambitious series like this is produced you have to watch it realising a few caveats - such as historicity (it is fantasy) and to a certain extent realism of actions, thought and narrative. However and this is a big "however" this particular journey into a fantasy world suffers from some serious problems which I will elaborate upon further, later in my review. But I would rather mention it's positive aspects first and why I gave it a reasonable, 6 out of 10. For example this is bubblegum TV it can be watched with little effort if you dispense any notion of realism. The ensemble cast has some pedigree and occasionally this talent is self evident. Unfortunately a number of performances are perfunctory at best, Arthur and Nimue in my opinion, pretty weak casting and delivered well below what I would expect. The show has a good pace and the story moves along keeping my interest just enough, yet I almost gave this series a truly terrible score out of ten. Aside from the weak acting of some of the central characters there is some quite ridiculous make up and costume design. The Fey, the collective heroes of the story look like an after thought, in a post GOT World their appearance looks incredibly childish. I like Merlin's character and I'm a huge fan of Gustaf Skarsgaard but I get the impression even he is tired of this kind of quirky portrayal nevertheless it is still one of the better acting performances. Unfortunately the direction is similarity tired and lacking in skill with moments of hilariously bad CGI thrown in for good measure such as a particular bad scene in the first episode. I'm also very bored of this forced diversity it smacks of laziness and an actual consideration to potential world building and character ethnicity. I don't mind if Arthur is black but explain this in the story line please, just saying it's a fantasy story is not good enough. Would you expect a character like Shaka Zulu to be portrayed by a white Englishman? No. All round this show is ill conceived, badly directed, badly cast and in part badly acted. Netflix seem to have a history of promising so much more but not delivering even after the budgets have by any standards exceeded what their rivals can employ (with the exception of Amazon or HBO). But if you intend to watch this don't expect a great show or don't expect to be challenged, it's the kind of show you watch when there's no alternatives.