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This is not bad. In fact mostly I enjoyed myself and even smirked on several occasions. This is very charming with likeable (but underdeveloped) characters and mostly its a fun watch.

With that said this is messy and the very intense cartoonish style just throw you around and daze you. Which, together with the weird pacing, make the movie a very strange watch. This feels like it was written and directed by a hyperactive 14yo with coffee pouring into their body intravenously. But the director is a 15yo named Mary Jane so we get a lot of (sudden and short) slow moments too. But those moments are too short and not good enough to allow us room to breath or bond with the characters and story. Instead it is off to coffee-induced fast-pace hyper-activeness 2sec later.

This weird pacing make it hard to get to know the characters. Basically only 1 or 2 with a decent arc and good story, the rest are either just there or we only get half their story. The movie feels incomplete.

I also never got the feeling that had urgency nor that there ever was a real threat.

The songs are okay, the story (what little we get) is okay, the characters (underdeveloped) are okay, the animation is okay. Everything is okay and kinda fun, but that is simply not good enough.

I give it a very generous 5/10 because I did have fun watching, but anyone claiming this is a great movie is most likely lying.

This show is the biggest surprise of the year. And very possibly the best show of the year.

This turns everything New Blood did and flips it over. From garbage to close to masterpiece. Jack Alcott, who was horrible as Harrison in new blood, is here an acting genius. Together with Uma, Peter, Michel and all the rest this is one of the best acted shows I have seen in years. The storytelling is superb, the directing masterful, the sound and sets beyond approach. We also get two really good police detectives who can think, wow, when did that happened last?

This also feels fresh, fun, entertaining, and has that raw adult humour which was a center piece in the original series.

I will not give this a 10/10 until they stick the landing of the show, but if they do, this will be not just the TV of the year but one of the best ever made.

The only tiny little negative I can mention is Batista showing up. He is not necessary. The other detectives are doing a great job and it feels like the show is only milking nostalgia. However David is always a treat so cannot complain too much.

Highly recommend. 9/10.

Everything about this movie is cheap. The sets, costumes, camera movements, music score, and level of acting is about equivalent to a high-school play. I could not find how much money they spent on this, but based on what I saw I would say perhaps $400k.

What could have still saved this movie would have been if the action and sword-play was exceptional. Sadly it is not. The action is not even passable and chopped up into millions of cuts to hide how badly done it is.

Not everything is horrible. The main actress is not bad. Lacking the charisma, beauty, and physique of Red Sonja she still manage to put in a good performance believable enough. The basic story is okay and close enough to the comic to be passable. Sonja also get her red hair and bikini-like armour (slightly more covering her body) in a natural video-game sort of a way which make sense. There are also a couple of scenes and events which elevate the movie somewhat.

I was almost entertained and could almost emerge myself into this world. But, at the end of the day when they spend so little money and bring in a amateur director hired for box ticking reasons then it does not get better than a 3/10.

Stay away, especially if you like the character.