alangmcw-850-641963
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This is pretty dire, and I regret watching all 6 episodes in the vague hope it would get better. The storyline is ridiculous (but I guess that's horror or sci-fi for you). It is painfully slow, the sets are unrealistic. There are some decent actors here who probably should have known better. Many of the characters are (I suppose deliberately) annoying or just plain thick. None are endearing or likeable. It is supposedly set on a north sea oil rig over several pretty stormy days, but the actors always seem to be freshly groomed, and there is hardly a whiff of a breeze in the air. The ending was unfinished, but please don't take this as an opportunity to make a follow-up series.
I watched this today on Prime, after a recommendation from a friend - and I am glad I did. It is a rather different kind of movie from the norm, but is excellent in so many ways: the cast, the storyline, the twists, the action, the powerful ending. It is an unconventional plot, in the worlds of corruption in senior care and of a very dangerous mafia, but I see this as a strength and as a refreshing change. I rate it highly.
Well I'm going to give this a moderately positive score, because I enjoyed it for what it is - a movie version of a stage musical which is based loosely on T.S. Eliot's charming stories. I was accompanied by a neighbour who loves her own cats, and we had both seen the stage musical many years ago. The production uses CGI to enhance the costumes and movements of the human cast, and I think this works well. The performers are clearly still human beings dressed in cat costumes, which seems to be a look that some reviewers can't accept. I presume that some of the negative reviewers might prefer cartoon animation, but I reckon that what this movie does works well.
It isn't Tom & Jerry, or James Bond, or Star Trek, or romantic comedy, or of any other conventional genre. This is a different kind of movie, and I suggest for a different kind of audience: ideally cat-ladies who have seen the stage musical at least once.