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While watching the film I found myself constantly snacking and doing other chores and still getting bored just listening to the dialogue that does not tell the story. The absense of musical score, tension and poor pacing made this two hour film a great ordeal to overcome.

There are filmmakers that have a lot to say and their movies lack unnecessary scenes and dialogs and are completely polished and engage the viewer completely. This movie has none of that. Its maker obviously had social commentary in mind and she had seen "Call me by your name" too. Then it needs some disgusting and provocative scenes that didn't appear to do the trick because the maker failed to deliver the shock.

It left me very little ideas to interpret and in the end it ended up being this the rich vs. The poor type of social commentary and climbing up in the foodchain kind of art movie. It was just too boring and didn't really give me the thrill of seeing a great piece of cinema. Also using letterbox aspect was a poor artistic choice.

The Continental opens to me slowly because I've never seen any John Wick movies and it's not an easy one to comprehend as very little is explained. I like the idea of a mystery, but it only works if there is a script, strong characters, strong storytelling, great dialogue. The Continental does poorly in that respect and the first episode felt like running from one scene to another way too fast. I'm expecting this show to just improve. After one and half hour the story should have already progressed somewhere and I was getting bored of it.

However I liked the 70's vibe and the music. All in all it's like as if the script had been generated by a computer bot and it resembles these films that were based on a video game entirely. So there's lots of room to improve this and hopefully I'm completely wrong about this.

After watching the complete first season, I can honestly say that the show didn't improve much at all during the four and half hour running time. They should have made a two hour action movie instead.

Also the very narrow cinema aspect with two black bars on video doesn't do any favors to the image quality. On normal sized tvs, it's barely visible and even on a bigger screen it looked so tiny.

In summary The Continental has great premises but takes a lot of time to watch and feels like a waste of time because it offers very little gratification in the end.