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There is this amazing women called Helen, a spy, also known as a Black Dove, hence the title of the series. But you do not see her a lot. For some reason the most of the time you see the (sexual) expedites of Sam, a sort of colleague of Helen.

Overall series produced by Netflix are of high quality, but it seems that Netflix is taking more the easy way. If a story is not compelling enough it overdoes a very long and detailed character build to fill the episodes. In this case the result is a promising first episode with nice action but from then on it goes downhill, Sam is introduced and the focus is all on him, diners with his friends, tet-a-tetes with his friends etc., boring as watching grass grow.

We all stopped watching after episode three, it was too much to stomach, so sadly this whole series was a huge waist of time.

It is very, very hard to take this movie serious. Chris Hemsworth is better casted in a comedy. They even better had Seinfeld to play his part, that would be way more convincing. Furthermore, to make a movie believable, it's always in the details. Why do these soldiers, the best there are, do not have goggles on to prevent sand and shot of rocks from landing in their eyes? And then there are some poorly executed 'award-winning' scenes where Hemsworth does some sort of monologue where he does a speech about something, but the problem here in is that it's so unbelievable I even started laughing, totally not the meaning of the scene, but so unavoidable. Just like the scene in 'Babylon' where the main character get's laughs in the his most serious scene.

Then the action scenes, average, to much closeups, nothing special. So sum it up, if you have the choice for another movie, better watch that one, like "All Quiet on the Western Front" or whatever war movie, everyone is better then this movie.