08-29-2019, 02:34 PM
LCF and I have one episode to go. Yeah, most of what Greg said. And DM.
I think Iko's English is solid, and his acting, too, for the most part. He's relaxed in most of his scenes -- better than early JCVD. But when he has to show emotions outside his normal range, his English falters, goes muddled. Not surprisingly. Since I have subtitles on all the time, it didn't bother me much.
The early going had a lot of Iko and his fighting, but then it's like the producers didn't have confidence in him carrying the series, so we're getting a tour of effin' Scotland and listening to a guy with an off-again/on-again accent, and a whole host of other characters, and the main ones are going to be killed only somehow they're not, they're just slapped around and told they're going to be killed, and the coup de grace is never delivered when the opportunity is there, and weapons never confiscated, doors never locked, and, yeah, it becomes a chore to stay engaged.
I kept thinking, Ah, a slow episode, just saving up for the next explosive one -- only it's slow episode after slow episode towards the end, with a lot of incredibly static exposition (they don't have to be sitting at a dinner table, or riding in a car, or just standing in a room, for these talk-fests; they could at least have packaged it into more action scenes or with eye candy).
Oh, during the penultimate episode, LCF asked me in the middle of a fight scene, Why is the camerawork so bad? Yeah. I had the feeling Iko and company were delivering high quality sequences, but the tight camera kept missing portions of them.
I'm rooting for Iko and the series, and for DM's cover, but why am I starting to squirm in my seat?
I think Iko's English is solid, and his acting, too, for the most part. He's relaxed in most of his scenes -- better than early JCVD. But when he has to show emotions outside his normal range, his English falters, goes muddled. Not surprisingly. Since I have subtitles on all the time, it didn't bother me much.
The early going had a lot of Iko and his fighting, but then it's like the producers didn't have confidence in him carrying the series, so we're getting a tour of effin' Scotland and listening to a guy with an off-again/on-again accent, and a whole host of other characters, and the main ones are going to be killed only somehow they're not, they're just slapped around and told they're going to be killed, and the coup de grace is never delivered when the opportunity is there, and weapons never confiscated, doors never locked, and, yeah, it becomes a chore to stay engaged.
I kept thinking, Ah, a slow episode, just saving up for the next explosive one -- only it's slow episode after slow episode towards the end, with a lot of incredibly static exposition (they don't have to be sitting at a dinner table, or riding in a car, or just standing in a room, for these talk-fests; they could at least have packaged it into more action scenes or with eye candy).
Oh, during the penultimate episode, LCF asked me in the middle of a fight scene, Why is the camerawork so bad? Yeah. I had the feeling Iko and company were delivering high quality sequences, but the tight camera kept missing portions of them.
I'm rooting for Iko and the series, and for DM's cover, but why am I starting to squirm in my seat?