Reviews

The show looks okay. The acting is terrible and right from the get go this is pretty ridiculous and unbelievable. ex. The father decides to be a vigilante. He gets stabbed and collapses outside of an apartment building. Automatically the swat team is called, by someone, and somehow the swat team knows which apartment to go to and who the suspect is? And the cops are calling him "the suspect"? This is written like a bad video game. Seriously lame concept and writing.

One episode and I am done.

As was mentioned, not a bad story, decent acting. BUT! how could the director allow such horrible production values to slip through? Was no one paying attention? The dialog and other soundtrack was an abomination - the audio levels were all over the map, even in the same scene - sometimes acceptable, other times so low as to be unintelligible. This wasn't just annoying, it made the film virtually unwatchable. This could still be fixed in post - why hasn't it been done? Shame. With a good soundtrack this would be a solid thriller.

I hate it when logic is thrown out the window for the sake of a story line. Sci-fi is perhaps my favorite genre and occasionally you find some genuinely solid fare - not this time.

Starting from the end, the story leaks water like a sieve -

1) she's driving away from the house in a late model Jaguar - she is blacking out and hits a tree. Does the airbag go off? Of course not, she has to get a broken face and amnesia to make the ending work. 2) Cujo - I mean the dog. Early in the film we see her show sympathy for the stray dog who is munching on some opossum roadkill in the middle of the road - who ran over the opossum? Never mind. Then she feeds the mangy critter some Kobe beef steaks in the driveway, cost of the steaks $200 per steak. Really?

OK. Then as she and studly walk into the house we see them not close the door behind them after leaving a questionable dog in the driveway. Would you do that? Oh, and just to be sure we get the message, the director has inserted a quick shot of the door frame and lock to make sure we know the door is still open. Well, if they hadn't left the door open then Cujo wouldn't have been able to get in the house and munch on studly's delicti, or any of the related scenarios involving said canine. 3) In the bed we see her wither away as doctor death looks on from the shadows with his jewelry box. But before that, while she is strong and showing us her muscular shoulders and arms, do we see her try to stand up and get the cuffs towards the top of the bedposts and try to pull the posts together so as to break them? Of course not. Do we see her doing any acrobatics with her legs to try to break the posts? Of course not. 4) We watch as she wedges a shard of glass into the bookshelf and proceeds to slit her wrist and lower hand, and somehow magically because she sliced her wrist, her wrist and hand get smaller and are then able to slide through the cuffs. Really?

5) Couldn't she just die in the bed, without Cujo munching on her, while we watch the slow disintegration of her mind in a more realistic way? That is terrifying.

But hell, who needs logic when you have a strong story line . . .