Reviews

We have read all the novels. This is a terrible hash of all things readers hold dear about Liebermann and Reinhardt. Compressing a 450 page crime thriller into 2 episodes just fails. They changed everything except the names of the characters. The casting choices are a travesty of the novels star personalities. It's been hacked to look like a Holmes, but it fails again and again. If you are looking to watch the series as an intro prior to reading, forget it, this will poison your mind.

The fragmented script fails to tie the events in the town together. Angry fog people, power outs, hallucinations, towards the end it still barely makes sense even as it tries to pass for a supernatural horror story. Early Carpenter, not memorable.

I remember that in either the 1974 standalone pilot, or maybe in Lisa's story (Ep6) was about about a group of transwomen struggling with their identy, working as dancers, the cops etc.

Low budget yes, inspired writing yes, special effects nah. You either love it hate it, this movie has a cult like following. For all its quirkiness, the understated writing takes you to an unexpected place at the end you will appreciate for the rest of your life.

I fell in love with this movie I admit after playing Wing Commander III and IV on the PS. Sure, its not the same in many ways, and many movies spawned from games fail utterly, but this one has a life of its own. Inspired casting, epic story, great characters, I think its game lineage has placed it in a shadow it does not deserve. Recommended sci-fi bucket list.

I started watching, plot jumps all over, character building is confronting in a way that does not seem well related to the overall plot arc.Then it has its "what's really happening" middle before it just collapses into moosh and silliness. None of it is scary. Why did they make this?

This is the worst movie I have seen all year. It runs an hour too long, is padded with useless battle scenes and the plot jumps around so much no one can tell what's going on from one scene to the next. The named actors are terrible, the lines stilted an the relationships formed are those classical of bad movies with quaint stereotypes. Give this one a miss, take back your life, take back your Saturday night, no one should have to sit through this rubbish. The entire high tech flashback container for the action makes no sense and when we return it continues to provide no answers as to why any of this was relevant, useful or entertaining. Who were that young Chinese couple anyway, why were they there, why am I watching this!

How can you fault the exquisite B grade production values, the predictable plot, the cheesy dialogue and Hils, the queen of the independent female stereotype.

Everything about his show we loved from the first episode. We even loved Max and Spring Heeled Jack, both characters killed of by the nonsense plot twists. Kept us going to the end. Can easily support a second series. So many loose ends left open, the plot twists are convenient, frequent, mad and loose.

The best loved character is of course Hils, she makes the show. Bring back Hils as a spin off, I just have to have more Hils.

A clichéd, melodramatic waste of my time. As a transgendered person myself, the main flaw in the screenplay and direction is that Eddie tries so hard to play a female that he missed the point that he is supposed to be playing a m2f transgendered person. They are not the same.

The colours and cinematography at the start have you thinking its been designed as an art piece but as it goes on you just get bogged down in the terrible screenplay and Eddie's try hard misrepresentation of his character.

Boring, Boring, Boring ... it's just rubbish. What idiot put their money into this flop. I can't see the DVD's flying off the shelves. As for the last lines on screen where the Lilly character is touted as being some kind of trans hero ... really, only in the producer's imagination.

We watched this show each and every week. The entire house would discuss the intrigue and the complex plot, the baddies, who was a goodie, or not. Right up to the last episode and then ... then ... what happened, it just died, all the complex plotting all the mysterious characters, just dissolved into nothing and the show ended. We sat there on the lounge and looked at each other, we wanted to cry. How could they do this to us, who's responsible! What a crock of SH!T.

Even though we were left in tears of utter disappointment at the end, all the episodes until then were gripping and we loved every minute. I recommend watching all but the last episode, then just be happy with your fantasies about how it could have ended. Anything you dream up on your own will be better than that last awful episode.

Maybe it will become an internet meme - the "Dig" alternate ending competition. I still want to cry.