AndreasHardcastle

Firstly, I totally disagree with those who say the acting was bad. They delivered pretty much spot on what was asked of them, which, unfortunately, was a pile of crap. Don't blame the actors for a bad script and bad directing. I actually liked the actors a lot, but felt sorry for them in many scenes for the dialogue they had to deliver.

Transformer movies, with the exception of Bumblebee, have never been anything to use in the same sentence with words like "smart" or "intelligent", but they were entertaining nonetheless. But THIS one here takes the cake in just plain stupidity. Not suspension of disbelief, just plain stupidity. The couple of minutes of "story" between (world-class) CGI orgies make the last two Fast and Furious movies seem like sophisticated pieces of deep philosophy and the holes in the plot are so huge, you could drive a dozen Optimus Primes through them.

This is for you if: you are equal parts die hard Transformers fan and veteran plot hole masochist and as long as it features Transformers made with good CGI you don't need anything else.

This is not for you if: you expect anything, and I mean ANYTHING at all, but great CGI.

I gave one star for the actors, which I liked, two stars for the really awesome CGI and one star because "Transformers". If you are not generally a Transformers fan, subtract one star.

I was utterly flabbergasted when I saw this show has got a bellow 4 rating. Then I read the reviews and became clear very quickly: Tons of die hard Resident Evil fans, folks who loved the games and/or the former movies and animated series who didn't get what they were probably not only expecting but hoping badly for.

Yes, this show is not entirely like the Resident Evil material that has been created so far. But is it truly awful? Absolutely NOT! I am SO glad I didn't see and read any ratings before, or I wouldn't have given it a chance. I wasn't a big fan of the games but loved the movies and animated series and have to admit, I was expecting something different. Too. But contrary to what some very disappointed people write in their reviews, the acting is pretty damn fine, and what others call teenage drama IS young teenagers living through some dangerous and dramatic stuff. They are not superheroes, they are human and faced with traumatic and world view altering situations, and the young actors do an awesome job on delivering that.

This show does not try to recreate the kind of Resident Evil you've been given in many different ways before, it's going its own path and if you can live with that it is pretty damn awesome. The characters are given depth and the story has a couple of interesting twists. It is very character driven and less effect and horror heavy than other RE vehicles, but when there are scenes focusing on the world and what the T-virus does the effects are well-made, and it DOES look like RE. The latter simply isn't the main focus of it.

All necessary details have been already brought up in other reviews, I just want to stress one thing, because it's what most people probably wonder about:

Even if you didn't even know about "The Watch" books by Terry Pratchett: This is still utter garbage with zero production value, unlikeable characters, CGI borrowed from the 80s (or maybe your hobby video editor neighbor with some Adobe software). No need to compare, it's a painful experience either way.