Teringer An Exercise In Nonsense

Dotbankey A lot of fun.

Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Phillida Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

scSCsc I give residue a 4/10 since it has some great visual appeal. All too often, however, movies - especially with all sorts of special effects technologies available today - rely too much on the fluffy stuff to make their story work when they should put equal thought into actual plot, dialogue, and characterization. There was no real depth to this "pilot" of a miniseries, and I don't feel like watching any more episodes of it. It's like stuffing yourself with cotton balls because you were hungry...not satisfying at all, and in fact might actually end up choking you.The pacing of the episodes was slower than it needed to be, with way too many shots used for "atmospheric" build-up and not enough actual oomph delivered story-wise. Some scenes were also inserted in awkwardly to info-dump the audience (and it also felt like they were inserted to let the audience dwell even more on the how edgy and artistic the shots are - the creative director indulged way too much in all that). The plot itself was riddled with run-of-the-mill sci-fi/fantasy/thriller tropes - nothing new, and no surprises, there. Anybody who is a fan of sci-fi or fantasy will roll their eyes at this one. Amidst the predictable lines, there were also lots of awkward dialogue spouted, and wooden characters that have no depth and likability, down to the secondary characters. I watched and watched, hoping to find one character that I liked but none were to be found. The setting seemed unnecessarily focused on the Asian culture (Chinatown? Or Japantown? Or what?) and did it in a trivial and mediocre way that had no impact on the plot whatsoever except for some vague exotic appeal (nowhere close to the awesomeness of Firefly's delivery).**SPOILERS BELOW** Really got the impression the director was just using this shallow, overused storyline to tout their great creative artistic special unique one-of-a-kind aesthetic flair. It's no coincidence the most special-est of characters in the miniseries is a self-obsessed photographer and blogger and also the only truly insightful character who is able to see the shadow-beings AND YET NOT GET ATTACKED BY THEM. Listen up everyone, she is one special gal, destined for greatness just FYI /s. The miniseries takes itself far too seriously to boot. If you like Iwan Rheon, you'd do far better watching the first seasons of Misfits.

gkauer @writer: Since I'm a dad these days, I cannot stomach the killing of baby's. so....right after it became apparent that the baby got strangled I turned it off. I don't care that you want to set a mood. be creative and set it another way. The story might be good but I will never know now because this stupid choice.Stop using the killing of a baby in story telling... It never adds anything except pure disgust! same goes for killing loving and innocent pets. some writers found the tragedy in Bambi apparently amusing and adopted it for since it is an assured way to invoke a strong emotion without any creativity.

thescookies I'm intrigued! Can't wait to see more! """SPOILER ALERT""""""" I was slightly disappointed about Them being captured so soon. But I'm sure it'll add to the build-up and discovery of the truth about the black smoke. I'm leaning towards a government cover-up about some sort of alien species. It seem to only affect those filed with despair and hopelessness. A.m. curious to find out why she has so far Bern spared. Please continue production! And keep Jonas, I remember this actor from Misfits, love him! I've stated all I had to say about this show. Not sure why there is a ten line minimum. It doesn't take a book to say whether or not you like a show!

PeterAndTheWolves Wow, finally I like a series once and it gets canceled. f.e. I detest that too the max overrated hyped soap-series "Game of Thrones" with its über-annoying boring story-telling about NOTHING. Residue on the other hand has all GoT has NOT; good story, impressing, spooky, tension,.....and breathtaking astonishing beautiful camera work/scenes. The scenery , oh man , the beautiful sceneries....accompanied with an outstanding music-score.. Parallel series are Containment and Cordon. I give Containment a try, seems acceptable to me and that Belgium Cordon is a joke no one laughs about...... Anyway, I am hoping that the material available of Residue gets released on Blu Ray soon....