Reviews

It's 2023 and I'm just watching this movie for the first time. It is so wonderful and quirky, I can't believe it. It sets a really high bar which has rarely been surpassed either before or after. The movies that I've rated nine stars are few and far between, but when I do it's because I feel the movie has been successful in realizing its vision. This is one such movie. And on top of that, the vision for this movie is novel and interesting. Interesting concept, great story and competent acting set a pretty high bar to top. Better late than never. I'm sure glad I decided to watch this on a whim. I wished I had made a bowl of popcorn.

Not so much. If this show gets better, then I'll come back and edit this review. But I'm doubting it will happen. I'm back after episode 3 and 3 episodes is all I'm giving this stinker; there are thousands of more entertaining shows than this bomb. "Aw, c'mon, it can't be THAT sparse on monster action." Okay, you judge for yourself: there were 3 whole minutes of kaiju screen time. Three crummy minutes. "Ya gotta give it more than 3 episodes." And waste even more time on this klunker? No. And I'm someone who has watched every Godzilla movie (except for Son of Godzilla) multiple times.

This show just plain stinks.

When I heard this show was going to be on Apple+, my initial thought was, "if it's better than a SyFy movie, I'll be surprised." It's been a week of surprises for me... but this ain't one of them. Maybe y'all want to watch "Monarch: Legacy of soap operas" but I don't. Talk, talk and more talk. Actually, it's a lot like a pre-2000s Toho Godzilla movie. One of the ones where I (probably) watch the whole thing the first time I watch it. But then on subsequent viewings, I fast forward through 80%. Because I just don't care about the characters and their interactions. I'm watching because it's supposed to be a Godzilla movie. SUPPOSED to be. Hey... 2019's "Godzilla, King of the Monsters" showed it was possible. Character development while the action - and lots of it - is taking place. It's called good writing.

But I doubt I'll even continue watching this garbage. We have too many television options for me to keep watching something that isn't entertaining or providing an enriching experience.

The more I'm watching this show, the more I'm feeling like a 4-star rating is too generous. See for yourself. My late spouse used to love SyFy movies and series. There's no accounting for taste.

How does this movie end up with only a 5.8 rating? What more do you want from a movie? I just watched it for like the 4th time, thinking, "I'll fast forward through the slow parts." There aren't any!!! Good story, good casting, passable acting and even the happy ending that we're hoping for. A beautiful and highly entertaining movie. I'll ask again, "what more could you want from a movie?"

The moral of this story? Good guys (people) finish last.

I love zombie flicks and South Korea made one of my all-time favorites: you guessed it... Train to Busan. But here they've taken an ENDLESS amount of time with character development, but why? To get us to like the characters so that it stings even worse when they kill them off? Yeah, I know lots of dead characters is to be expected, but they spend 11-ish hours on character development and it just feels like they're torturing us.

I'm almost done with the series. I watched it all because currently there was nothing else on Netflix any better. But I didn't enjoy it as much as I wanted to.

I probably wouldn't have bothered watching the whole series. Despite its many shortcomings, I actually enjoyed the series. The pace was SLOW. That usually bothers me - this time it didn't. Casting was odd, but I liked it. We've seen this story ad nauseum, but I enjoyed it nevertheless. I would have rated it 7 or 8 stars if not for the absolutely awful disappointing ending. I was a fan of the program up until the last 3 minutes. Huge HUGE disappointment. Supposedly Archive 81 is a big hit for Netflix so we'll see a season 2, but the writers didn't know that when they wrote the horrible ending for season 1. So disappointing because I enjoyed the entire rest of the series.

So many people on here want to tell you how this English remake pales in comparison to the "original." What's with the quotes around "original?" It wasn't!!! It was from a comic book and that's even acknowledged by some of the reviewers. I didn't read the comic or see the previous version of this movie and, who knows, maybe that's why I enjoyed this one so much. I'm not very generous with the stars when I'm reviewing something on here, but this movie was good. Real good. A wonderfully twisted story with a very surprising ending. Lots of cool violence throughout and maybe that's what distracted me from guessing the mind-blowing ending.

If you enjoy twisted stuff, then treat yourself.

Just finished watching the first episode, so my rating might change. But in the first episode, it feels like science was thrown out the hatch. Oh, wait, the hatch wasn't working correctly - along with everything else on the ship! It would be a shorter list if we counted what WAS working on this space ship. And didn't it occur to anyone involved with this production that moon gravity is about 1/6 earth gravity? Perhaps if the story was compelling I might be distracted from the series' glaring science holes. (I also couldn't care less whether the characters live or die, so that's a major problem with the story telling.) I'm going to give it another episode or two, but I may not even finish the first season of this series.

It sure is beautiful though. Top-notch visuals.

I'm on episode 4 and they still haven't figured out how gravity works on the moon or the science behind plant growth. And I still don't care who lives or dies - although I was happy that the most obnoxious character died in the first episode. I didn't know how much of him I was going to be able to tolerate.

I'm watching the last episode. Not sure why I wasted my time with this series. And they found more science to ignore. The same side of the moon always faces the earth. All their science blunders are grade school science! I just saw the finale and it stunk as bad as the rest of the series. If it gets a season 2, I'm not going to waste my time on it.