Cromo (2015– ) User Reviews

Outstanding

[attorney-10 · 10/10 · 5 July 2016]

I loved it from start to finish. It's well-written, with good character development. There's not a clinker among the cast - they're well-cast and they're good actors. I really thought the acting was exceptional. The story has good drama. The scenery in marshes and in Antarctica is beautiful and put to good use as a backdrop for the scenes. The music together with the scenery was terrific. There's a good sense of when to make the music a bit wonky, both to provide a creative break for the viewer's mind to fill, and to express something unique; likewise the scenes where people who have died return - these were uniquely presented. The whole thing was beautifully filmed. The story is believable. Besides the film itself I enjoyed getting a glimpse of Argentine society - how the people talk with one another; the street scenes in urban and rural settings; the scientific advances; the courage in some and brutality in others. I loved it from the first scene.

awful acting and worse directing

[mi5-3 · 3/10 · 27 March 2017]

With a couple of exceptions, the acting was awful, which was amplified by a terrible direction. The plot is reasonable, but the development was disjointed. Perhaps it was due to the fact that it seems to have co-directors for each episode. Many scenes seem to be there just to occupy time. I definitely do not recommend it.

What happened?

[paulcreeden · 5/10 · 7 January 2017]

When I started watching this series, I was skeptical. I suspected a soap opera, Latino style. But then the environmental and public health plot pulled me in. Then it became a murder mystery, sort of. Around Episode 6, I started checking my Netflix menu to see how many more episodes could possibly be left, since everything was obvious.

Then it plodded on for 6 more episodes. Unlike a Dickens story, there were not many characters and virtually no subplots. There were multiple editing and time line glitches. Spliced footage of alligators and capybara inserted as filler added little. The landscapes were pretty, but....

German Palacios (Simone) was the acting highlight. Luis Machin (Rizzo) added some threatening darkness. Arianna Anghileri did well considering her character's lack of any real development. I pressed through to the end to see if there was a redeemable turn of events, but there wasn't. Just a tidying up with a couple of tearful scenes of a survivor, who was perhaps the most annoying character of all.

Slowww

[rolando_ramos · 2/10 · 21 March 2019]

Good plot, but extends insignificant scenes unnecessarily.