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I like the setting (which bodes well, as I was mostly watching this before getting into the more recent films), but… not much else.

The score was downright annoying. I’m not sure I’ve ever been taken out of a film so often by the soundtrack. It’s like there’s an orchestra whose mission is to make it hard to hear what people are saying, or go completely over the top whenever anything happens. Like they were actively competing with the film not complementing it.

The ending was a bit of a let down, and some of the scenes in the back half were laughably bad. I knew it was fairly low budget, but it feels like they sunk what little they had into the earlier parts and left the high-tension high-importance bits at the end out to dry.

So overall: meh. Didn’t hate it, didn’t love it. Definitely interested to see what the future incarnations bring.

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