Excellent show with good acting and production values. Bummer that Amazon Studios decided to cancel it due to the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes.
When will we get season four!? Want to see how it ends! My understanding is that it was shot and edited during the pandemic but then TNT dropped it for some reason.
Wow, Trakt has a lot of armchair screenwriters and directors on here.
This is Shymalan's best film since "The Village" which is saying a lot since I wrote him off as a director years ago. So this is a good return to form for him.
Also, the script is adapted from a novel by Paul Tremblay, a respected thriller writer--so if you have issues with the story, blame the original novel (the film rights sold fora seven-figure sum).
Personally thought this was very well directed, acted and scripted: the scenario grows organically and I never lost interest.
Recommended for those who like endtimes thrillers. Would make a great double feature with "Leave the World Behind" as the stories share similar qualities: unexplained catastrophic events occurring mixed with the worst of human intentions. Both films also adapted from novels. And they both definitely touch on the zeitgeist we find ourselves now in post-pandemic with a lot of conflict in the world and the resulting uneasiness that permeates our daily lives.
About as literary as modern sci-fi on TV gets. Digging the atheist vs. believers angle. Really enjoyed the pilot: thought provoking mixed with good action (esp. the second half) and can't wait to see where this series goes.
Yes, this is a train wreck and certainly not what many Who fans had in their heads as they listened to the original 1969 album of the same name.
But there's a method to director Ken Russell's madness -- and IMHO he made a successful visual pop-art adaption of Townshend's story. Even Who bassist John Entwistle said, "I never knew what the story was until I saw Ken's film."
There's visual allegory and symbolism galore in this thing and my personal favorites are how the opening and closing images bring the whole story full circle. Pinballs on top of crosses, in the armament factory Nora Walker works in. Red remembrance poppies. British air bombers as crosses. Marilyn Monroe as modern goddess to be worshipped. And on and on....
As for the actual music on the soundtrack - it's very much of its time and Pete Townshend threw on as much synthesizer as he could to make up for the lack of production on the original Who album. It doesn't exactly rock, but for the purpose of this film it works.
Any fan of the deaf, dumb and blind pinball wizard needs to give this a watch. If you compare this to later rock concept album adaptations like "Pink Floyd's The Wall" it still stands up remarkably well.
Great gritty crime thriller ala Fincher's "Seven" or Demme's "Silence of the Lambs"!
The key question of this film: Is vengeance worth it if you become what you hunt?
Acting, photography, script, production values -- all top notch. One of the best crime thrillers I've seen in years.
Good but not great. Danny Boyle's direction is spot on, but Alex Garland's script loses its way in the last third of the film. But definitely worth a watch.
Very well made and acted French-made adaptation of the novel of same name written by Harlan Corben. Highly recommended. We don't get smart thrillers like this enough! Great turn by Kristin Scott Thomas - but the whole cast is great!
