Some things I liked some I did not.

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Any fan of Jim Butcher's great series had to be sad when this died. If you read the books, you'll find that they get quite complex and sprawl. You'd need to have a Lord of the Rings budget to bring them to television. This had a SyFy channel budget. So, instead, this series aimed lower. The fatal mistake early on was focusing on Dresden's role as a PI, creating a lot of "filler" type episodes. They kept the magic and "big issues" to a relative minimum until the end, by which time it was too late. It became the Rockford Files with a bit of magic. Who knows what would have happened had it continued? It didn't continue for several important reasons. First, early plots were so-so, careening from one isolated event to another with no theme, no overall arc, no real chemistry allowed to develop between the characters. There were just random episodes in the life of a PI with magic. By the time they changed course, it was too late. Try #10, on how Harry killed his Uncle. Good stuff, and true to the books. Why wasn't it #1 or 2, so people could relate to Dresden's character? Ep. 11 was great, too. It continued moving away from the mundane PI stories. Too late! Too many early episodes were hackneyed. Second, the cast was generally quite good, but Blackthorne did have limits. He seemed to personify Dresden in many respects--the humility, the bedraggled do-gooder demeanor. I get why he won the role. But he didn't have much acting range, he had 0 charisma, and when he strained, so did the show. Murphy had too little to do early on. Bob, perhaps, had too much. Overall, there is fun to be had here and I still enjoyed it, especially beginning with #10. There wasn't quite enough magic early on, though. It would've been nice if it had had more time to find its voice. I think it would have.

I had watched these when they first came out. I recently re-watched them on HULU. If I had seen the series first, by itself, and not known about the world the Jim Butcher had created in the Dresden Files, I'd have been okay with the series. I probably would've even enjoyed it more. If I'd seen the TV show and then read the books, I'd have appreciated that the show brought me to the books. That was not the case.Unfortunately, the writers, producers and directors strayed so far from the books, characters, magic, and mantra, that they created a poor interpretation, ignoring what made the books so great. I hope they try again, someday, but with each book becoming three 1.5 hour shows. Or, they could take the "Side Jobs" approach to a series and never really do the books, except as full blown blockbuster movies. Now that's a good idea.

http://www.amazon.com/review/R1ZUNLLWCN3PPX/ref=cm_cr_dp_title? ie=UTF8&ASIN=B000QUEQ4U&nodeID=2625373011&store=movies-tvIf they had a ∞ (Infinity Symbol) to the power of 10 for a higher rating than 10 out of 10 I would have chosen it. Not just for quality but the potential of these unique stories. http://epguides.com/DresdenFiles/Storm Front (espisode 8) is #1 Rules of Engagement (episode 4) is #2 Birds of a Feather (episode 1) is #3 The Boone Identity (episode 2) is #4 Hair of the Dog (episode 3) is #5 Walls (episode 7) is #6 Bad Blood (episode 5) is #7 Soul Beneficiary (episode 6) is #8 What about Bob? (episode 10) is #9 The Other Dick (episode 9) is #10 Things that go Bump (episode 11) is #11 Second City (episode 12) is #12I'd planned to watch them in sequence in anticipation of the new season, now I'll watch them in sequence to enjoy a series that ended much too soon.

I was waiting for this to come and when it did i was so disappointed how it was changed, the hockey stick for a staff, the timeline is so terribly off, bob isn't a dead wizard, he is a spirit that was created, plus harry sure as hell doesn't let him out of the skull, Harry has a vw beetle not a jeep, Karen and harry didn't meet right away, All in all its a badly ported series, and disappointing to people who have read the Dresden Books, as someone who has read all the books and loves to read any book Jim Butcher has written, including the codex alera, i think that the series should be rebooted with everything changed back to the way it was meant to be,