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The George is more like a low-budget console game than a movie. Centered around a kitsch and over the top romance between an American and a Russian watcher over a mysterious, fog-enshrouded ravine rumored to be the gate of hell , the movie begins like dozens before and develops its strength from the interactions between the protagonists. Once the mutual attraction is consummated, the silliness begins. Cheap CGI, stupid revelations stolen from many stupid movies, cringeworthy creature design. Every scene and development is completely predictable. The action choreography is uninspiring and amateurish, the dialogues are hard to take seriously.

Blur are the studio behind one of Love, Death & Robots' best episodes, the introductory Sonnie's Edge. They're also behind a spate of iconic games, from 2001's Return to Castle Wolfenstein to this year's Black Ops 6.

In Secret Level, Amazon's answer to NETFLIX's LD&R, they are in their native element. Adding their take in the form of 'secret levels' to 15 game franchises in form of 15 episodes of varying length, they aim for the wow.

And succeed- visually. Jaw dropping visuals abound, from the photorealism of Crossfire to Warhammer and Dungeons & Dragons to the more stylized world of Sifu.

Violence abounds, blood flows by the hectoliter, entrails spill, creatures and humans meet their brutal ends, things are generally grim, there's little to no humor.

What's missing is coherence and sense. With an exception of two, plots and storylines are simplistic and negligible or ridiculous.

There are repetitive elements; flashbacks, voice overs, inner voices, all spouting nonsense

As hollow, instantly forgettable entertainment, it's a hit.

A motley collection of unlikeable characters spout insipid dialogue nonstop in a series so derivative it seems like an inferior pastiche of dozens of mediocre 1970s sci-fi series.

The acting is served bad and plausibility absent. Watch the doctor ("call me doc") who can tell just by looking at someone fully dressed in a spacesuit that they have broken ribs on their left side. This diagnosis is followed a few minutes later by the statement that splinters from fractured ribs must have perforated the lung.

The story revolves around a mysterious substance to be salvaged from an abandoned station on the moon.

There needs to be some science behind science fiction; here, we have nonsense.

There are some nice special effects, but overall, Silent Sea is no more than an overlong offering for diehard devotees of Korean series.