VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

espinaeditorials The first episode was fantastic, it's the hook that gets you to watch the other two which aren't as strong. The first episode answers a lot of questions people have wondered about space and our own humanity- this show goes about it in a very good way similar to the book. In parts 2 and 3 you can start to feel the stretching of the story as some plot lines and arcs could have been deleted. Overall the message is what is key and the overall feeling of watching the series can, for some be very uneasy.

DjuneDomingo I love the series.At first when you finished the series, it's hard to understand the point of it all but after some time I realized there is a very valuable lesson here.There is a reason why life is hard and why we have a free will.But if we become zealots, we would just choose to do anything even though it is against God's will just because it is beneficial and/or good for everyone(majority). Also if we become zealots our faith in God will be gone even though all of our wants and needs are satisfied. In the series, they all became zealots that is why God turn his back on them.It is corollary that just giving thanks to God is not faith. It is obvious because faith is not that.

huh_oh_i_c Let me repeat: Even worse than usual crap full of American self-righteous chest thumping descends from awful to absolutely despicable.This is another very deeply disturbing of how Americans(Israelis??) screw up every good SF book there is. See what they did to Nightfall. Only the P.K. Dick stuff seems to get good movies. Heinlein, Asimov and now Clarke: all of the Big Three have been thoroughly raped up the bum hole by Hollywood.This is a story written by a scientifically conscientious English gay writer, who had scientific training and integrity in his knowledgeable writing. None of HIS characters had all this emotional baggage, since that is NOT what the story is about.First American self-righteousness: The character Stormgren. In the book he was the secretary of the UN, but in the TV show he's some farmer from a flyover over state. This shoves the amateuristic idea down our throats that "regular" folks know better than experts, the same utterly stupid idea that got Trump elected. Like Obama said: "I prefer experts to pilot planes or do heart surgery". Yep, for those, as with EVERYTHING, you need seasoned and ooh scary elites, to do the job.Second American self-righteousness: The utter lame idea that we'd be interested in Stormgrens love life, that he can't move on from his first wife and that he now betrays, or cheats on his second wife, with his dead first wife.In general, all the characters are changed, and for the worse. Peretta is an insane woman, and it's utterly unbelievable she can get close to the second wife. The Greggsons are not meant to be suspicious provincialists, Rupert Boyce is not meant to be so arrogant and slavish, Milo was meant to be a colored South African called Jan, and why would anyone blame, least of all he, that the Overlords killed scientific curiosity? The situation did that, and people could have gone and studied other, non astrogation/space/rocket stuff. Jennifer is supposed to be a baby, and not some 10 year old actress pretending to be four years old, playing a Nazi type fascist Fearless Leader. It's obvious the writer doesn't have or know anything about kids, if he really thinks we're gonna buy this crap. If you can't find an actor to play a four year old, use CGI, it's hyper-realistic these days.In the book, 50 years pass before Karellen shows himself, which is two generations. But, because Hollywood demands you apparently can't just use actors for one episode, it got shortened to 15 years ... Once again, Hollywood greed screwed up a good story. Also, Milo gets saved immediately from a LETHAL bullet wound, but Karellen can't? And the Overlors are magically curing cancer by not even looking but Ricky can't be cured? Suuuuuuuuure! I get that is done to get even more emotional badly acted crap scenes, but WHAT IS THE POINT OF THAT?Anyway, while the first episode only gets screwed up by the spoilerish beginning, the 2nd deviates so far from the book it really stops making sense and has a lot of plot holes. The 3rd descends into some Lifetime emo crap about relations and sickening nostalgia.I was really looking forward to see scenes of the Children doing their "dancing" but apparently that had to make way for a total lie about New Athens and stuff.About halfway through the 2nd episode I, an atheist, began thanking "Gawd"(sp?) that my fellow atheist Arthur C. Clarke was dead long before they raped this book. Which is the only good thing about this all. Why can't we give minus numbers? Zeros?The Melancholic Alcoholic.

alex-vernon The production was remarkably true to the book, which like the first-cited reviewer I read almost a half-century ago and dearly love, except in one respect - no doubt with understandable but not forgivable artistic license, the scriptwriter in the final episode removed the dignity and eventual acceptance of the evolutionary process of the 'remaindered' humans and thus allowed the separation scenes to become - doubtless televisually attractive - those of panic and distress, at odds with Clarke's view of humanity as expressed by Karellen - that they were worth the effort. After all, the Overlords had the job of 'midwives to this process, but we ourselves are barren': they had the greatest respect, as did the writer, for their charges, who eventually deserved it.