Bloodlands: The Kidnapping (2021)
Season 1, Episode 1
4/10
Only for shaky cam lovers
29 October 2021
Videographer seems to have an obsession with shaky cam, I've only watched the first 36mins and had to stop, it was genuinely making me feel motion sickness. Shakycam constantly throughout, even when people are standing still! Not sure I will manage to watch the rest. There is really no point making a well-acted/written series if the camera work is so shaky that it makes it unwatchable. Four stars for the acting/story/production of what I managed to get through - would have good potential except for the terrible camerawork. Hard to believe, but apparently there are still camera people who don't realise that shaky cam is really only suited to faux documentaries/battle scenes, i.e. Such that it induces actual realism. Nothing realistic about people standing still, talking to each other, where a documentary crew would obviously never be allowed and no real physical action is occurring, and yet camera still shaking every which way. I might skip to the 2nd episode to see how it is, maybe it was a one-off - once my head stops spinning and the nausea goes away...
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