"La Revoution" sacrifices solid story telling in favour of cinematic eye candy and revisionist social commentary.
Visually this is an outstanding production. Sets, costumes, environment's and atmospherics, are beyond fault. That said, those pretty images come at the expense of far more than a thousand words. The visuals fail to tell the story, which, when it eventually emerges, from a diffuse, fractured script, is bland and utterly predictable.
Regrettably, the contemporary need to use entertainment to lecture has elbowed its way into this tale too. Social commentary about inequality and racism, is front and centre. All at a time when this really mean't little to most people. Even the French revolution was a middle class affair, not a popular uprising of the down trodden, as this production, tries in vain, to suggest.
Acting is decent with a capable cast. That said, this fact on its own is nowhere near enough to save this series from being slapped with a "mediocre" label.
In short, very disappointing, from a series that clearly comes with a healthy budget. Its just a shame they did not spend more time and effort crafting a decent, politics free, story along the way.
An uninspired 5/10 from me.
Visually this is an outstanding production. Sets, costumes, environment's and atmospherics, are beyond fault. That said, those pretty images come at the expense of far more than a thousand words. The visuals fail to tell the story, which, when it eventually emerges, from a diffuse, fractured script, is bland and utterly predictable.
Regrettably, the contemporary need to use entertainment to lecture has elbowed its way into this tale too. Social commentary about inequality and racism, is front and centre. All at a time when this really mean't little to most people. Even the French revolution was a middle class affair, not a popular uprising of the down trodden, as this production, tries in vain, to suggest.
Acting is decent with a capable cast. That said, this fact on its own is nowhere near enough to save this series from being slapped with a "mediocre" label.
In short, very disappointing, from a series that clearly comes with a healthy budget. Its just a shame they did not spend more time and effort crafting a decent, politics free, story along the way.
An uninspired 5/10 from me.