Tweetienator
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American Primeval is for sure one of the best TV-shows on Netflix lately - a dark and gritty tale in the West with a fine production and a solid working cast. The story got a similar (or same) tone like Mark. L. Smith's well known The Revenant (starring Leonardo DiCaprio) - so, if you liked that one this show is made for you, if not, don't bother. What you get is a lot of riding and running and killing too, the story itself is rather a simple one. Anyway, I dare to recommend the show to all lost souls who like movies and shows like The Terror, Taboo, The North Water, Bone Tomahawk, and The Revenant, of course. Decent stuff.
The Electric State reminds me a lot of of Borderland - a fun idea, some well done visuals, but, well that's it about it - the action is boring, the dialogues bad, the humor mostly cheesy, and the whole story gets more and more redundant and predictable as it moves on. No doubt, I would die in boredom writing that story/script. I really don't what kind of people think and decide that it is a good idea to spend more than 300 million dollars for such kind of, well, mediocrity. Like Borderland, The Electric State is one of those contemporary movies that will be forgotten fast and fall in that void too many movies these days belong. Final verdict: just boring.
Last note: I didn't read the book (author: Simon Stålenhag), so I have no clue if the original story is that boring or just the movie adaptation failed big time.
Last note: I didn't read the book (author: Simon Stålenhag), so I have no clue if the original story is that boring or just the movie adaptation failed big time.
The initial idea is fun but the movie runs really quickly out of steam and the longer the running time the more it gets boring. Last but not least, the movie may be financed and supported by a conglomerate of drug dealers - carpe diem seems to be reduced to, well, taking drugs before you die ;) Anyway, this is no new Cheech & Chong or The Big Lebowski - the level of comedy and humor is simply to mediocre like the rest of the "story" and all the pseudo-clever blabla of our heroin. Anyway, as many raving reviews indicate, some people seem to like this one. So, if you really got nothing better to do, you may try Spontaneous and make up your mind yourself.