Serpiente (2021)

What a mess

Star Image did it again! Announced 8 episodes, started promising, finished it after 4 (or rather 3 and a quarter).

I usually don't write negative reviews, but this time it has to be, because I was looking forward to Kaleb displaying new facettes of his talent. Unfortunately, I was deeply disappointed (which isn't Kaleb's fault!). I will keep it short, though.

Basic idea: not bad. A story of some boys getting lost in the jungle of the city, unpolished, realistic.

Script: None. Just a sequence of scenes about boys getting drunk and fucking around.

Director: Probably just told the actors, 'Boys, get drunk and fuck around'.

Cinematography: Remained in the dark.

Actors: That's the tragedy about this 'series'. Despite everything said above, they are talented and cute, with Kaleb outstanding of course.

What to do? Well, maybe another production company should produce a remake of the basic idea, hiring the same actors, but a different, that is to say, a proper, screenwriter and director, and this may be a thrilling series.

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I was slightly disappointed with Serpiente. I expected a bit more. The story could be told, even if it is nothing groundbreaking, but it was not used as a filmmaker or director, such a mild pall mall, the shots were often unnecessarily dark (if the intention was to achieve a bigger mystery), a long-winded shot of the laundry in the first episode (I don't understand) . I was looking forward to an actor named Kaleb Ong, whom I know from the series Meet My Angel, he did not disappoint, but he was bound by the script and the director. So life the Filipino way .... aka love, sex, betrayal.



Serpiente mě mírně zklamalo. Čekal jsem poněkud více. Příběh by se dal, i když nic průlomového to není, ale nebyl filmařsky ani režijně využit, takový mírný pall mall, záběry byly často zbytečně tmavé (jestli se tím chtělo docílit nějakého většího tajemna), dlouhatánský záběr v první epizodě na praní (nechápu). Těšil jsem se na herce jménem Kaleb Ong, kterého znám ze seriálu Meet My Angel, nezklamal, ale byl svázán scénářem a režisérem. Takže život po filipínsku .... alias láska, sex, zrada.

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