2010
First and foremost, if you're going to require viewers to actually read a passage before watching your movie, skip the calligraphy fonts.
Second, a written passage followed by a lengthy spoken one is too much.
Third, Netflix, this is NOT scifi, it's fantasy - the two are not interchangeable.
Okay, so it's not horror but all the talk of a Dark God bent on chaos promised gore. It did not deliver. Instead, there was a lot of talking, at least three or four different prophecies, far too many improperly introduced characters, and then, a lot more talking. You never even got to see the alleged Shadow in the North.
In truth, I should have ran screaming when my gaze fell upon the words "based on the role playing game, Midnight," but alas, I heeded not the warning.
And so it came to be that 100 minutes of spotty acting and painfully cliché dialogue were inflicted upon me. And there were many boredom breaks to pay bills and cook meals. And another promising menacing shadow did but yield a horned yeti with anger management issues. And before mine eyes, the aforementioned yeti rage was quelled with the glowing light of a badly inked nightclub-stamp tattoo. And said movie did end with the revelation of a secret library, stretching as far as the eye could see...though 99% of the populace was as illiterate as the day they were born.
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