simbartson

Given the casting & media hype for this tv series, you would be expecting that an interesting story would be afoot. Well, you would be mistaken in that expectation. As adult viewers, we have so many more choices today than in the era of just 3 big networks to pick from. The winners in this game have a minimum requirement to get the audience interested in their product right from the start. No one will sit through multiple episodes of dreck waiting for the plot to become clear. Tried to get into whatever story line the producers put together here, but it just doesn't work. Kidman was wooden and less than convincing in her depiction and the children seemed more like NPCs than actual characters. Give this series a hard pass. There's plenty of better material out there.

Didn't even finish the whole film. I was actually looking forward to seeing it based strictly on the cast list. It starts on a visually weird note, being displayed in a format akin to black & white TV from the 60's and just gets weirder from there. There is little to recommend about the plot or the cinematography. Scenery that appears to have been pilfered from an old hanna-barbera cartoon, backgrounds flying laterally past your eyes so fast that any attempt to follow just makes you dizzy. The story jumps around on a timeline with no apparent rhyme or reason. All the characters are introduced and explained by an orator, ala Rod Serling's Twilight Zone. If a film needs to be explained by a third party while you're watching it, it should have been rewritten before filming. Started to grind on my nerves after about half an hour. Watched for another 30 minutes, hoping it would improve. It didn't.