It's just quirky humour but it didn't work for me. That's why the reviews are so polarised.
True, the visual aspect is interesting, even though definitely not very original, I've definitely seen this before quite a few times, it has lots of similarities with many previous Sci-Fi including movies, series and video games.
What failed terribly for me is the writing, and maybe the directing too, I'm actually quite surprised and disappointed on J. P. Jeunet.
The story is not only silly in a bad way, it's quite unfunny and awkward.
The acting and dialogues are very cheesy and the pace dragged quite often, making me lose interest in what was happening.
The background stories giving context to the world was very poorly executed and was quite nonsensical too many times.
Overall, I give some points to the setting and visual style of the movie, but there's not much more than that I enjoyed.. Big disappointment from such an interesting director.
By the way, one more time I read so many reviews blaming Netflix for a bad movie, what is it with those people? How ridiculous!
True, the visual aspect is interesting, even though definitely not very original, I've definitely seen this before quite a few times, it has lots of similarities with many previous Sci-Fi including movies, series and video games.
What failed terribly for me is the writing, and maybe the directing too, I'm actually quite surprised and disappointed on J. P. Jeunet.
The story is not only silly in a bad way, it's quite unfunny and awkward.
The acting and dialogues are very cheesy and the pace dragged quite often, making me lose interest in what was happening.
The background stories giving context to the world was very poorly executed and was quite nonsensical too many times.
Overall, I give some points to the setting and visual style of the movie, but there's not much more than that I enjoyed.. Big disappointment from such an interesting director.
By the way, one more time I read so many reviews blaming Netflix for a bad movie, what is it with those people? How ridiculous!