The Silent Sea (2021)

Watchseries; Very slow 8 hour movie with dodgy science behind the fiction. We've seen movies where a team gets picked off one by one in a closed environment, and there's at least one with a separate agenda, before. Throw in some Korean mistrust of big corporations and government elites but it's still a miss. May have been a tight show in a 90-120 minute format.

Very slow 8 hour movie with dodgy science behind the fiction. We've seen movies where a team gets picked off one by one in a closed environment, and there's at least one with a separate agenda, before. Throw in some Korean mistrust of big corporations and government elites but it's still a miss. May have been a tight show in a 90-120 minute format.

The Silent Sea watchseries. A well paced space drama with lost of challenges for the characters. There were a few items in this that were immensely illogical which makes you wonder if the writers know much about science?

For example they have the characters walking in slow motion whenever they're out in the vacuum. Well, this is plain silly and doesn't happen in reality. Just look at real moon-walking footage. Where is the resistance in a vacuum?

And taking off their helmets in a facility where they know there could be undetectable bio-hazards, where the staff previously died of unknown causes and before they have checked the air for hazards. Much like the similar ridiculous scene in Prometheus where so called 'scientists' remove their helmets in a building on a new alien planet after they just arrived.

Apart from this the main story in quite fine. Do hire a science advisor in the future though :)

The Silent Sea may not be the most prolific korean series of the year, but it does something different by jumping into an altogether different genre, diverse from regular korean dramas that we witnessed this year.

The cast, especially Gong Yoo, did a splendid job. The writing was solid and the initial couple of episodes were tightly balanced, however it got a bit sloppy at the end. I felt that there was no satisfactory conclusion to the series, leaving behind many questions which were supposed to be answered whatsoever.

That being said, I must also acknowledge that the series does not reinvent the wheel. In fact, it's essentially a variation on the plot of a certain other space tale. Even with the weak ending, The Silent Sea is worth watching. It's a chilling look at a future that could be closer than we think, as well as a scary story with a monster at the end of it.

My Rating : 7.5/10.

Feels like a video game run through and doesn't have the cash spent on it that it at first looks like. Still having said that it's core concept/back story is fine and the acting is better than a lot of similar outings.

Because it seemed like 90% of it was about people walking down long dark halls and talking in slightly above whispers. Also there was a lot of overacting. The characters got fake concerned looks on their faces so often as to be humorous. I think the SoKo's blew this one. Back to the drawing board. Hope Netflix didn't pay a lot of money for this. I know the Koreans can do better.

Following their consecutive triumphs in a myriad of genres & styles in the recent past; Koreans have now finally decided to take the initiative into this fairly newer ground i.e. Sci-fi/Space. On a concept level, this was a terrific attempt, a fascinating idea indeed. If only the execution was able to correspond accordingly, this could have resulted in something else entirely!

The budget was sufficient as were the available resources. There were absolutely no problems whatsoever regarding how it looked and felt. The Cinematography, the Sound, the all-around production is nothing but a testimony to my aforesaid statement. Performances too satisfied the prerequisites! Albeit, the characterization leaves a much bigger room for improvement.

The same goes for the Screenplay as well. Which was, by and large, an uninteresting and uneventful affair. All thanks to its dismal pace; which should have had better consistency and nourishment. As you can probably tell by now, the primary issue isn't with the idea or the particular way it is conceptualized; it is more about the implementation, which failed to take advantage of its much broader potential in the end.

While, on one hand, I do praise the creators for their covetous and pragmatic intents; on the other hand, I don't see this getting much of a success. Let's just say, I fear, in the majority of cases, people's exact expectations wouldn't be met!