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I desperately need to believe the book that inspired this movie is better and deeper - because what I've attended is just a predictable and shallow sequence of stereotypes. It's not even a movie...you just see a list of good looking faces trying to be, in all the grossest ways, good looking / "cool". Even the "dramatic" elements are tasteless. Strangely for a movie derived from a book, everything is kept together by dialogues ripped to the bone. It seems the only visible "mark" (or scar) is unnecessary stupidity.

Even if really thrilled after the first episode, I have to admit the following ones slowly but definitely get (far) worse.

First of all, it was supposed this would be a documentary on history of nuclear warfare and how it forged our modern world...instead almost half of every episode is devoted to the war in Ukraine, observed from a typical neoconservative viewpoint.

Second, here and there you'll see some claims proven definitely false and lacunous reconstructions - for whoever has (or wants to have) a good knowledge of some of the most important historical facts cited, this is really bad.

Third, the effort put in costructing a biased narrative hides potentially truly interesting facts and events about nuclear weapons and its implications (pretty undocumented for the big audience).

So condone me if I'm disappointed and I'd not recommend it - neither if you search for "knowledge" nor "entertainment"

I am so sorry, but this "thing" is probably the worst one I've seen in the last ten years.

The only good thing I can do (since I cannot unsee it) is to warn you: don't fall, like I did, for the advertising or for some sequences grabbed from the original Jackson's trilogy - this thing has nothing to do with all that.

And more...unfortunately and pretty incredibly, it is horrible from pretty ANY point of view: the animation is astonishingly trashy. The music, trivial and tasteless. The plot, predictable and dumb. The characters...oh my, they are shallow, forgettable and cliched to a level you'll ache from cringiness. The plotholes are embarassing, etc.

Maybe someone with an enormous sense of humour could laugh from the first to the last scene. By myself, I still wonder who had the audacity of sending this monstruosity in theaters.