Excellent, Without a doubt!!

A Major Disappointment

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

I have only watched season 2 on Netflix and I love the stories chosen. They explain everything really well and use family and friends to talk about the victim. However the downsides are that they play the footage over and over which is a bit excessive and the dialogue is very repetitive. The amount of time spent on telling us how great footage is and constantly referring to the security cameras is over the top. I found myself after a couple of episodes getting frustrated because they seem to state the obvious and repeat the same lines.

I watch this show every week but today 5/8/18 I found the background noise so annoying I said to myself...."whose bright idea is this."...it was interfering with the show....just fire that person and get on with it.

The stories are interesting, but the production values are awful. The whole premis is based on breaking cases by using CCTV records, but you have to watch each piece of featured CCTV at least four times, and each time you do there is an awful noise, like a dead fly buzzing on a wooden floor, and faked-up interference all over the screen. And then there's the script - talk about stating the obvious! Not only do we see the recordings at least four times, but we also get a description of what we are seeing. And then the same facts are stated over and over again. I managed to watch all of Episode 1 of series two, but no matter how much I wanted to find out what happened to Kenia in Episode 2, I was shouting at the screen too much to be able to, so I gave up.

Here we have an interesting concept for a show. A crime that is recreated largely through captured security video. It's quite fitting for our video age and a welcome departure from the usual ID channel offerings that attempt to present crimes that fall in some ridiculous forced categories like wives with knives or swamp murders. When it comes to recreations in true crime shows I tend towards less is more as the acting is typically bad and really adds less to the story than the testimonies of the victims and officials involved. I'm more a fan of shows like Dateline and 48 hours I guess. I also could have done without what appears to have been fake security video intermingled with the real video but thankfully those were kept to a minimum.