It feels like some random half-motivated film school student won millions of dollars and has no clue how to spend that money in order to craft a compelling experience.
This series fails at the basics. It's completely devoid of suspense, excitement and emotions. It's really surprisingly amateurish.
I also felt no inspiration whatsoever. Almost every scene feels heavy handed, dull and overcautious.
Now, I wasn't a massive fan of the book either, but the book is at least exciting and the mystery feels actually threatening and ..mysterious.
The swarm is a prime example of worthless entertainment that has no respect for the audience. If you recut the material into a 2-3 hour movie, the result could be at least mildy entertaining I guess. 5 stars for that hypothetical movie.
2 Stars for this series (sound design is good)
This series fails at the basics. It's completely devoid of suspense, excitement and emotions. It's really surprisingly amateurish.
I also felt no inspiration whatsoever. Almost every scene feels heavy handed, dull and overcautious.
Now, I wasn't a massive fan of the book either, but the book is at least exciting and the mystery feels actually threatening and ..mysterious.
The swarm is a prime example of worthless entertainment that has no respect for the audience. If you recut the material into a 2-3 hour movie, the result could be at least mildy entertaining I guess. 5 stars for that hypothetical movie.
2 Stars for this series (sound design is good)