Harry_Pamiaqui

The violent force behind it made a brutal, hard, believable, and powerful experience. Stands out no sugarcoated, diving into the dangerous reality of those times. It goes on my list of the best moments lived in front of the TV. A brutal and gritty masterpiece exceeding expectation with colorless scenes that just rendered almost downright unwatchable. Really ... this is your version of what a 4K should look like? Where is the 4K here? Why do these colorless productions continue to be filmed?

First, they made the screens infinitely wide, then, they brought spectacular 4K resolutions, and now, we wind up in dark blurry-fussy-hazy-misty-foggy-shadowy lifeless cemetery landfill like scenarios, hard to see even under the Sun light. They've killed the magic of high-resolution cinematography, not to mention the weight on eyes stressed by the constant quest to focus. It feels insulting to all the work put in by the actors, set designers, makeup artists, director, who worked hard to make something that someone in an editing room decided should be borderline indecipherable sludge. Need to remind modern directors that people are universally complaining about how horrible dark/nighttime colorless effects are. This style of filming hurts the eye and should be discontinued.

Too repetitive. We have a narrator, architects, and archaeologists who repeat what someone else has just explained, and this fillers happen over and over again. When it comes to adding mysteries revealed, each chapter would last 15 minutes, everything else is filled with images, often the same image, to explain over and over again the analytical capacity of digital scanning technology. Of interest is how fragile the drones used to take images look. These drones didn't make the tunnel diagrams, which is what Ground Penetrating Radar does, but it's not presented compared to the time consumed by photogrammetry advertisements. The data obtained by researchers are not heard and much less discussed or lost among comments and opinions that do not reveal or advance in any way the multiple questions presented as if as a riddle. The mysteries to be revealed became questions after the translation. New research and access to important places are presented but superficially mentioned before moving on to another round of unresolved questions and speculations. They have a good show assembled, but they must polish the presentation avoiding repeating information and unresolved questions. I do understand that they are valid questions with a lot of reasoning, but if I wanted questions, I would be in front of a math book, not in front of a television.

The screenplay presents a powerful play of corruption and political stunts well-crafted in an immaculate atmosphere, with sets and wardrobe artfully crafted, and a believable portrayal. Which one doesn't belong to the group? Well, an Oscar worthy ruined when the ending destroys everything what came before. An unnecessary twist, not for been a private matter, but for been so simple to understand and still so out of place and not attuned, that it didn't properly integrate with the rest of the film. Every situation has its place and time, but not everything can be accommodated in any given situation or time. After no behind the scenes action, just rumors and gossip about different cardinals, a perfectly orchestrated web of tension flips on its head. A film ending means a lot, an unknown would never be seriously considered as a pope.