andymike-75725
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As a moderate fan of the wheel of time books it is endlessly disappointing that this adaption of the series butchers the book series beyond belief and any hope of saving it. It is truly heartbreaking, this will be the tv show adaption that we are going to get and it is a complete butchering. No survivors left behind.
So that sucks ... however even disregarding this the series is very poor.
Visually it is all over the place, sometimes it can look decent but it can also look goofy (whitecloaks, firemask man, blight etc) and the effects and fight scenes are hardly impressive.
The world building is very sparse and i can't imagine anything else than non-book readers being very confused on what is going on. The pacing is all over the place and manages to both feel very rushed and slow at the same time as important parts are rushed while fairly unimportant side parts gets a lot of screentime.
This relates to the main issue of this series which is that it is all over the place, it doesn't feel coherent or well thought through and it rarely goes more than a few minutes until something weird happens that doesn't make any sense.
If you are looking for a full time job for 2022 then i bet you can create a 40 hours youtube series going through each episode just pointing out stuff that makes no sense whatsoever.
Add to that unnatural dialogue, weird editing, weak characters (due to the sadistic butchering mentioned above), weak ending (season 1), even weaker (or-nonexistent) villains and you have yourself a mess of a show.
So that sucks ... however even disregarding this the series is very poor.
Visually it is all over the place, sometimes it can look decent but it can also look goofy (whitecloaks, firemask man, blight etc) and the effects and fight scenes are hardly impressive.
The world building is very sparse and i can't imagine anything else than non-book readers being very confused on what is going on. The pacing is all over the place and manages to both feel very rushed and slow at the same time as important parts are rushed while fairly unimportant side parts gets a lot of screentime.
This relates to the main issue of this series which is that it is all over the place, it doesn't feel coherent or well thought through and it rarely goes more than a few minutes until something weird happens that doesn't make any sense.
If you are looking for a full time job for 2022 then i bet you can create a 40 hours youtube series going through each episode just pointing out stuff that makes no sense whatsoever.
Add to that unnatural dialogue, weird editing, weak characters (due to the sadistic butchering mentioned above), weak ending (season 1), even weaker (or-nonexistent) villains and you have yourself a mess of a show.
While the intro might trick you into believing that you are watching a slow paced detective movie about finding a brutal serial killer, the movie fairly quickly shows its true colors as a stupid over the top revenge story straight out of a graphic novel.
Like most of its kind the story is insanely stupid, unbelievable and feels like it is written by a edgy 15 year old, but while movies like Sin City at least have the decency to not take itself too seriously this movie takes itself way too seriously, is too long and too slow paced.
The result is a tonally inconsistent mess, as a silly revenge movie it is too slow paced and grimdark, and it is way too classless and stupid to be anything more than that. It got a bunch of excessive violence , torturing and raping going go and perhaps that is enough to please some people but i just found it cheap and out of place.
The movie certainly looks nice and the actors does a good job overall but as a whole i certainly didn't enjoy this movie.
Like most of its kind the story is insanely stupid, unbelievable and feels like it is written by a edgy 15 year old, but while movies like Sin City at least have the decency to not take itself too seriously this movie takes itself way too seriously, is too long and too slow paced.
The result is a tonally inconsistent mess, as a silly revenge movie it is too slow paced and grimdark, and it is way too classless and stupid to be anything more than that. It got a bunch of excessive violence , torturing and raping going go and perhaps that is enough to please some people but i just found it cheap and out of place.
The movie certainly looks nice and the actors does a good job overall but as a whole i certainly didn't enjoy this movie.