foszen

Rarely I have seen such a soporific, irritating show off of primal macho display as in this series. And that's not because of the story. Is war essentially something different? Anyway the opening sequence begins with the catching and killing of a shark or another big fish with one's bare hands. The tone is set. But the creators immediately succeeded in depicting even that bloodlessly boring. The first field, sorry, beach battle was a moment where I thought: I need to get a drink. In between, you see virtually all the male actors displaying the only two facial expressions you can see in the entire first episode: looking tough and looking very tough. Lips pressed together, eyes slitted. Supported by ... tough walking and stiff dialogues. I felt like I saw a bad performance of a Shakespeare play by a local village theater that is forced to use acts so the actors could review their text lines in between them. And now an example of the cinematography: to enhance the majesty of the Chief of War, the director uses the glare of the sun around his head. After a battle corpses are moved making supportive movements to avoid injury as they fall. And all of this in the first episode. My God of war , what was this?

Overacting, Kevin Kline did remind me of the professor in Back to the future, pathetic, cringy dialogues, enervating pace from the third episode on, elevated soap opera, pretentious, bombastic, full of plot holes, weird (messy) sound design, way to long (7 episodes) for a story that could be told in a movie, needs a lot suspension of disbelief, sometimes cartoonesque and all over ridiculous and empty script writing, using the soundtrack and the voice-over like the story was told to a boarding class, a waste of great talent like Kate Blanchet and Kodi McPhee, a finale that doesn't make any sense and that was already predictable miles before, really the most worse series I ever saw in my life, what a completely waste of time.