Helix

I like bad films. Films that are 'so bad it's good', but this? It's just bad. So awful that I stopped watching after 25 minutes and I can't remember ever doing that before. The acting is wooden, which I can overlook in films because they're entertainingly bad and have redeeming features, but this was just painful to watch. The main character is uninteresting, there are too many irrelevant characters and interactions, and it seems in this futuristic vision everyone is an *sshole. For a city sector that is crumbling the pavements are surprisingly clean, but this film is a mess. The UK DVD cover looks like it should be an action movie, the synopsis read like it had potential, so for £3 in ASDA I took a chance on it but it's going straight to the charity shop.

I think there were some good ideas here, but it didn't quite deliver. But I think if the editing and the pacing was better it could have been a good film. I thought some of the post apocalypse scenes did look really nice though.

There's no chemistry between the lead and his love interest that it feels the romance comes from no where. The acting was very mixed. Overall there was little character development, because I think a lot was put into the setting off the future, and the DNA system they had. Which was cool, but a better balance between the two was needed.

So I think they tried to do too much.

There are a lot of bad reviews for this movie.

It wasn't that bad.

Sure it's disjointed, not enough background detail on the protagonists, but it kinda works.

It's spiced with a bit of romance, and it has a happy ending.

Just like most shows if you read the comments below where people stopped after 30 minutes or 1 episode that's dumb. Like everyone else I love game of thrones but even that takes a few episodes to get interesting. This show was no different. After about 2 episodes it picks up. It also has some good plot twists and isn't entirely predictable.

Good performances (with one exception*, noted below), good story, good staging, good photography, and good dialogue (again with one exception*, noted below), this could have been a 7/10 or 8/10 movie but for that one exception: *Marc Petey (as Aiden Magnusson) and his (lack) of dialogue.

It would be reasonable (I think) to expect Eric Petey to write some decent dialogue for Marc, and get him to deliver, but no. He mostly has none, and what he does have is mostly unremarkable. It's a shame, because that single performance (by the main character) drags down the entire movie.