Just finished watching The Citadel while travelling and was not impressed at the mediocrity of this series. I was drawn in by the stellar names behind and inside the project but it's still not enough.
Script? It is infantile, with lines like: "I'm myself when I'm with you. And I'm only myself when I'm with you. Marry me".
Realistic? Impossible manoeuvres and scenes are made possible with futuristic gadgets, weapons and physic's defying feats. Example: jumping out of a helicopter onto a submarine under 60 seconds
Story? They essentially take you back and forth across 2 different time periods just to make an underwhelming plot more confusing to make it appear sophisticated. But it's just boring and unnecessarily complex. The motives for each character are thin with most of the story happening off screen and barely anything exciting on screen. There's a show behind a this show that could have been compelling.
But unfortunately it took $300m, top directors, and top actors to complete this production where they crammed decades worth of spy themes and tropes into 6 hour long episodes.
There are enjoyable moments and scenes interlaced into this film and great potential. But after 6+ hours it's clear that it wasn't realized in the final execution.
Script? It is infantile, with lines like: "I'm myself when I'm with you. And I'm only myself when I'm with you. Marry me".
Realistic? Impossible manoeuvres and scenes are made possible with futuristic gadgets, weapons and physic's defying feats. Example: jumping out of a helicopter onto a submarine under 60 seconds
Story? They essentially take you back and forth across 2 different time periods just to make an underwhelming plot more confusing to make it appear sophisticated. But it's just boring and unnecessarily complex. The motives for each character are thin with most of the story happening off screen and barely anything exciting on screen. There's a show behind a this show that could have been compelling.
But unfortunately it took $300m, top directors, and top actors to complete this production where they crammed decades worth of spy themes and tropes into 6 hour long episodes.
There are enjoyable moments and scenes interlaced into this film and great potential. But after 6+ hours it's clear that it wasn't realized in the final execution.