I looked for this tv-show because it had a convincing trailer only to find out it was no where near as good as the trailer showed.
I arrived at 5 stars rating as follows;-
1. Visuals were okay! The color tone was a good choice as it gave you that sense of serial-killerness. Except for a few moments of shaky camera during action scenes! So in terms of visuals it scored 8/10
2. The dialogues was good! It was believable, the moments the characters argued you feel the intensity of the scenes! I thought the south-african accents were believable (tho amnt South-African). So again 8/10 for dialogues and monologues
3. Action-choreography. Its an action-thriller so i think its only fair if you rate the action scenes. The nothing special for the few action scenes in this movie. They didnt impress and yet they didnt dissapoint. The gun shots sounded okay and believable. Ratings here is 5/10 as in they were torelable.
MAJOR SET-BACKS
4. The Plot which i rated 2/10. They came up with good story for this thriller as in serial-killer pursuit by a policewoman who mental trauma for childhood abduction and abuse has nice punch in it.
- But ohh boy! Did the fail to deliver! The plot had so many plotholes that couldnt be ignored which made story ubelievable. To mention a few:-
* bad guys appeared out of nowhere for conviniency of the plot.
* the main antagonist( the serial killer) wasnt not smart enough to have lasted that long on the loose. I mean for gods sake! He was a well known person who picked up his victims out in the open ( The village market). One eye witness was enough to point our that the victim who died was last seen with a certain person
* Reyka retracted her statement to free Speelman without knowing the adress he was being released to. As in seriously! They want to believe that she was kidnapped and lived in that farm house all those years later became a police and the she didnt know where she was kept. In the last episode her daughter is kidnapped to the same location. And she had to ask around to get the location.
* the police chief was running a snitch( who later turned to be a serial-killer) without knowing where he lived. Smh! So thats how dumb police are!
* Reyka was placed undercover in the final mission to set up a honey trap for a person who already knows she is police (this had me laughing)
* A serial killer who has been describe as smart and educated in the final episode kidnaps Reyka and holds her at his won house which could be easily traced (shocking)
5. Characters and acting, my rating is 3.
* Only Reyka had enough character development. Other characters including the main protagonist felt they just came up. The other police she worked including the police chief didnt have homes, the only life we were showed is their terrible policing!
* the serial killer who we didnt known throught out the show, who were led to believe that he was educated, smart and a charmer when he is finally revealed looked nothing like that description!
* Were these police not trained for anything! They looked liked they picked at random in the streets and given badges. They got themselves locked in stupid situations very often, the policewoman who was murdered when she was undercover she looked scared, she was easily pursuaded to go into the plantions while she was aware of present and clear danger.
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