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An Exercise In Nonsense

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

I watched all three episodes that are out so far on Netflix, and I did not notice 3 hours go by. I was on the edge of my side while watching these. The music is captivating, the filming is fantastic and the acting is perfect. Natalia Tena is phenomenal in the role of the artist photographer and she takes us in the darkness of a twisted city through the lens of her camera. Slowly becoming the people whom she photographs, through her obsession she finds something in her photos, more than emotions, she finds -things-. Perhaps the explosion in China made this series more thrilling. All in all, the series has a dark vibe, adult content, and a supernatural phenomenon. The sci-fi twist is perfect for those who enjoy a good thrilling experience. I would highly recommend this show to people who enjoyed playing Thief, Kholat, horror games in general, Heavy Rain... Overall, it had a story telling appeal that could be a very very promising series.

"Since the explosion, since the construction of the Quarantine Zone, my photographs are different. We're different. Is it despair? Confusion? Rage? Fear? Everything's changed. Maybe forever."Not knowing what was waiting for me and whether it was worth to watch this alleged horror / mystery (the content seemed interesting to me though), this film visually impressed me afterwards. At the end credits, I was somewhat irritated because the ending made no sense at all and left me with a lot of question marks. Ultimately it was a huge open ending with everything still as mysterious and unexplained as in the beginning. Afterwards I found out that this was a pilot for a brand new television series. What a disappointment ! As a fervent opponent of anything that even resembles a serial, the further course of this nevertheless very intriguing story will be completely unknown to me. However, I am sure that by the third season everything will be very confusing and complicated, because the writers are completely lost and are forced to invent new story lines. That's nothing for me.The whole story revolves around a massive explosion that occurred in an underground dancing somewhere in futuristic London. According to the government chemicals are released, which leads to evacuating part of the population and a perimeter is established around the disaster area. Jennifer (Natalia Tena) and Jonas (Iwan Rheon) witness this explosion and gradually see their part of the city mutate into an area with military control. Jennifer is a photographer who starts to make photos of local residents after the incident and who discovers that these individuals experience a personality change. They get suicidal and turn out to be downright murderous. Jonas is someone who works for the organization who have closed the area in question (all the buildings in this area are covered with plastic, which creates some surreal images) and gradually he becomes aware that there is more to it than an explosion. And finally there is also Levi (Jamie Draven), a police detective whose daughter died in this explosion."Residue" is a fairly depressing film. Not only because of the futuristic story, but also because of the atmosphere and the used color palette. Everything looks bleak, gray and with no future. In retrospect I understood why the film was so slow without really shocking or relevant incidents. That's of course because this is just a long intro to a multiple seasons full of episodes. Only the artistic image fragments are momentary attention grabbers. For the most part it's just observing the main characters wandering around and looking for answers to their questions. After that there's something paranormal coming up. This makes it a little more interesting. So, are you a TV show freak, then I think this one is worth to watch. Instead, I'll stick with my addiction to caffeine and nicotine ... and I'll still eschew the "soapine" for the moment!More reviews here : http://bit.ly/1KIdQMT

Residue is a short series consisting of 3, 42 minute-ish episodes. There are 7 characters that matter, and "matter" in itself is a stretch. Basically there is an alcoholic and presumably drug-addict-cop. Who sits in his car wasted on new years eve. Then you have the happy- celebrating-couple who are drinking and kissing for new years eve. The daughter of the cop calls the father (who doesn't answer because of his incoherent state passed out in his car) then an explosion happens and it cuts to the happy couple in the apartment who in a very sexual moment get interrupted by the sound of an explosion. What a buzz kill. Then you have the face of the cover-up, an Asian-ish looking woman who sucks. It then cuts to about a month later. The blast radius has now been "quarantined." You get to see the completely stereotypical alcoholic cop dealing with his loss by drinking more. What a fu**ing surprise. Except his story isn't cool, and he isn't cool, or a good actor, at all. The aforementioned happy couple consist of the woman who is a photographer who is taking pictures of people "affected" by the aftermath of the explosion, and the man who is actually the PR guy for the government trying to cover up the cause and/or real reason behind the explosion who is the assistant to the Asian lady who sucks. Which all sounds pretty interesting for the first 33 minutes. The cop is convinced that there is more to everything than the media is letting on, and so does the woman photographer, although these are separate story lines. The cop alcoholic gets information from a seemingly homeless black kid who pick-pockets wallets off the street about a guy mouthing off about the explosion on new years eve. So the cop goes after this guy who was supposedly "mouthing off" about the explosion. He stabs him in the hand after insulting him telling him he better get some information the next time he see's him. Later it cuts to a random red-head who seems to have a passion for ripping off his reading glasses really hard indicating frustration. He is the guy basically high up in the government that is trying to contain the situation. The "bad guy." He is informed by the alcoholic cops captain that this alcoholic employee is asking the right questions and therefore needs to be taken care of. Later on it cuts to the thug that got stabbed in the hand who gets killed by the police captain for the purpose of framing the alcoholic cop, thus solving that problem for the higher ups. The alcoholic cop is arrested and presumably taken into custody and that is the end of that storyline. As for the photographer woman. She spends about an episode and a half doing the same thing. Walking around taking pictures and saying something is going on and no one knows what it is. Eventually coming to the conclusion (that is never actually specified or talked about) that it is something supernatural or "ghosts" While her boyfriend grows more and more suspicious about the people he works for and the credibility of the story they are telling the public. So he decides to sneak into the quarantine zone of the explosion that took place. He ends up getting shot but gets medical attention apparently from the people within the quarantine zone that never left. The girl finds the boy and they are super happy for like 24 seconds. Then the army busts in. She tells them they all need to run to the border of the quarantine zone and tell the army that they are survivors and that the government has been lying, they absolutely disagree but end up doing that anyway due to the army finding them and start shooting. So they run to the border and the media immediately starts filming them so the army stands down. It then cuts to a press conference by the Asian woman who sucks saying that the people who were seen coming to the border were exposed to "highly contagious substances" and were therefore in isolation for the public safety. It then cuts to the lone woman photographer strapped to a bed in the middle of a big building courtyard of some sort with the red-headed-glasses-ripping-off-with- conviction- bad-guy who asks her why she was immune to the "ghost" attacks. She says she wants to see her boyfriend and he basically laughs and says she'll tell him what he wants to know one way or the other. The 3 episodes were absolutely a chore to get through. The storyline is EXACTLY 28 weeks later except with stupid black shadow ghosts, less credible actors, and even less credible ACTING. Do not watch this mini-series. Just watch 28 weeks later. You'll get the exact same story except you'll enjoy it exponentially more.

Reviewed by: Dare Devil Kid (DDK)Rating: 1.5/5 starsOne of the most insipid, lackluster, and soporific horror films of all time - yes it's that bad. Right from the buildup, which was haphazardly presented to the progression of the story, which was monotonously dragged on with little or nothing really happening to the supposedly anticipated, big reveal in the climax, which ended up petering out like a damp squib - just nothing went right for this film.While the cast tires their level best to elevate proceedings, the hackneyed writing by John Harrison and Alex Garcia Lopez's pretentious direction leave absolutely no scope for redemption.