Living Targets

Putting together such a complicated bit of revenge is quite the event. Especially when you choose unorthodox tools for it and come up with an even more complex scheme. Fortunately, retards work at the Olomouc police, so you can mow down more than you may have hoped for. The first two episodes are genre average, which don't handle tension very well, and the characters are more like cute caricatures (where the excellent Michal Isteník was the only one who understood his assignment) who rather awkwardly flounder in a heated situation than actually solve anything. Hřebejk does his routine, which needs to kill three Sunday evenings at all costs while being hindered by Jarchovský's screenplay, which turns the final episode into a pure hell of creative laziness, where banalities mix with nonsense. The ending tops it all off. It's not space for the audience's imagination, it's stupidity. (14/05/2019)

I expected at least a slight improvement in quality after Monsters of the Shore, but the creators preferred to return to the roots, and my rating corresponds to that. Regarding the acting performances, let me compare them to a cycling race: Viktor Preiss was miles ahead of everyone, Klára Melíšková was desperately trying to catch up with him, while a peloton of the rest of the actors was hopelessly trying to catch up with her. The story was painfully unoriginal, the creators decided to return to the poor quality of the beginning of the series and I can’t say I’m happy about that. (10/09/2019)