Konterr Brilliant and touching

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Cissy Évelyne It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

brackvakic I was quite excited by this. I thought Sinbad would lend itself well to TV. I do find it very watchable and will finish the series, although I am constantly reminded of its faults:The acting and directing are poor. The acting is hammy and overblown and brings to mind old BBC series' from the late 80s and 90s. The fight scenes are laughable and the action sequences look cheap and badly done. Not at all convincing. Think cheap Bollywood without any special effects or cables making people fly.This is VERY 'family'. The BBC Radio 4 accents, the tame fight scenes, the overly simple plots...it's so...mild......and incredible shallow. The characters are all out of the BBC 1992 hero scrap book and they have no depth at all. The plots are all very simple, poorly written and with really bad endings. Like they were written on the bus on the way to filming.It is a watchable series, especially while you're doing something else! I have it on while I'm working to be honest. Whenever I watch it properly I am constantly reminded that I'm watching a very low budget, poorly done programme that is in a totally different league to big budget shows.

mafletcher-09546 I am a fantasy fan and have seen the original movies of Sindbad. They were set in his later years and this show sets him in his outset as a pirate and adventurer, so I was open minded and intrigued to watch.However, by episode four of series one, I lost interest in the characters. In episode three one of the crew, who by now should have bonded as crew and seem to previously, robs the crew and runs for it, only later to be taken back on board. It is apparent as this series only ran for one season that what I am reviewing was on the minds of many watchers. Oh and its a BBC production, one of their worst, sadly I am a Brit.If you have no concept of Sinbad, have never watched a movie or read a book I imagine you could watch the whole series.

Rob_Taylor I'm a big fan of the fantasy genre and I grew up with the Sinbad movies featuring Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion work, so I have a massive inclination to like anything like this.But...This is just reaching beyond its ability to deliver. Production values are reasonable, but acting and story lines are just woeful. There is terrible CGI all over the place and Sinbad's "I cannot spend more than a day on land" amulet is an awful macguffin designed to drive tension in certain episodes.They meant well, but they aren't delivering. Will there be a second season? We will have to see. But they need to do some work if it is to last much longer.

Thomas Blalock Scroll down if you just want to see a one line summary.I came to watch Sinbad with no idea what to expect, as I couldn't find a single proper review of it online. After having watched the first two episodes, I can say now, right of the bat, that I was both impressed and disappointed with the series. The cast chosen for the series intrigues me, and is one of the strongest features of the show, in my opinion. The ensemble cast is diverse, and quirky, from the tough and strong Norseman, to the gruff yet seemingly caring Cook, they all have something to bring to the show. The age old premise of Sinbad the Sailor, tried and true, brings much to the table as well. I loved seeing an adventure show with a good cast, and believable computer graphics brought to the table. The choreography and fight scenes, while a bit rough, are also quite impressive, bringing back the memory of "Hercules the Legendary Journey" without many of the cheesy and hackneyed fighting moves. The problems become apparent after that, however. The actors themselves are a bit rough; some of their actions and reactions just don't seem to fit the part. An example would be in the end of the second episode, where a giant Wyvern, carrying Sinbad, flies to the ship and drops him into the water. Personally, even in that world, a giant flying beast is some cause for concern or alarm. Not in Sinbad! "Oh look, a giant winged beast. It's carrying Sinbad? Oh, nothing to be alarmed about here, let's just cheer and celebrate, and dismiss the GIANT FLYING MONSTER altogether." This really makes the suspension of disbelief difficult to achieve. There is this disconnect between how I feel someone should react, and how the actors portray their characters in the series. The plot's themselves are also, thus far, nothing out of the ordinary. Episode one: Street urchin angers powerful prince, prince seeks revenge. See "Farscape, episode 1" for more information. Episode two: Crew encounters savages on island, who want to eat them for sustenance. There was a bit of a side plot going on their with the leader of the cannibals, but their actions and reactions also felt like they were railroaded into the plot, and forced into a nice neat box that they didn't quite fit in.TL;DRShow has major potential, decent graphics and choreography, but with hackneyed plots, and major shortfalls in acting, causing many of the scenes to seem forced and awkward. The cast was well chosen, but seems very inexperienced, having difficulty convincing me that the characters in the show are truly reacting properly to situations presented to them.