krissa75

The series started of interesting enough but it slowly slid into an abomination of a final episode.

Terrible writing, cheap tricks to produce shock value/emotions and storylines that go nowhere or are kept alive by ridiculous twists and turns, these became the staple of the series and the last episode is absolutely filled with them.

Add to that the uneven acting performances (Martins and especially Macari are chewing so much scenery I expected to see large holes in the sets) and a sliding disregard for any sort of historical accuracy and there's very little reason to even get to a second season.

If people had hoped for a new "Rome", this is nowhere near the quality of that series.

This is quickly becoming a frustrating watch. I like the mystery, I like the suspension and how it's slowly developing. Harold Perrineau is always a joy to watch but the cast of characters seems a bit uneven talentwise.

The real frustrating parts are how clichéd several of the characters are written (Julie being the main example) with dialogues that offer nothing in character development other than just to confirm how cliché the characters are.

I hope it picks up but as of know it starts falling into the Walking Dead trap: not a lot of action/moving the story forward and loads of meaningless drama/dialogue between characters you either never cared for or stopped caring for quite some time ago.

The title is an actual line from this movie. I could have taken countless others. It points out the overal quality of the dialogue which is "self-published YA emo novel". That's to say: cringeworthy and often just plain dumb.

The other point that is immediately clear: the casting feels off for so many roles.

FKA twigs is not a good actress and she has no chemistry with Skarsgard whatsoever. David Bowles as Wickham (or Skull Cowboy, a role that was scrapped in the original due to the death of Brandon Lee) feels oddly out of place. Danny Huston is another one in a long line of villains that just whisper for dramatic effect. If you have the distinct deep raspy voice of Michael Wincott that works. Here it just screams "generic villain".

Another user is angry at the bad reviews suggesting it's because "we all hate remakes and don't give it a fair shot." I love the original The Crow, I also love the comic book. I tried with this, I really did, but it failed me.

As said before: the dialogue is terrible. The first half hour sets up the villain and the love story. None of it grabbed my attention. Vincent Roeg is nowhere near as interesting or menacing as Top Dollar and for the love story see my earlier remarks about FKA Twigs, the chemistry and the hokey dialogues.

Ironically the best scenes of the movie are the ones that very much copy the style and aesthetic of the original but even then it chooses gore over substance and never reaches the iconic status that made the original such a great movie.