Beautiful but empty and cliched

Barty2811

The only five-star performance is that of the incredibly beautiful Tasmanian landscape. The story is pretentious and ultimately too neatly sown up at the last episode, an episode where one pleaded to be put out of one's misery with more false endings than the final chapter of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

The dialogue was stilted, awkward, the story line strived hard to have some of the pagan horror of Midsommor or The Wickerman with none of the authentic feel of those movies and the character's motivations and actions too predictable.

I see there are a couple of ten star reviews in this page. Clearly from people associated with the production - which would probably encompass at least twenty per cent of the Tasmanian population.

Finally - the sound quality for the dialogue was really poor and the actor playing the 14 year old daughter of the main detective was so atrocious at acting one can only surmise she was someone in the production company's niece or neighbour or selected only on the basis of her looks. Given this was a fairly essential role, this let down the entire cast.

score 3/10

Barty2811 3 January 2020

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw5377041/