Sky One's new drama Curfew slated for "awful" effects
Viewers were far from impressed by Sky One's new apocalyptic crime drama Curfew tonight (February 22), a sort of cross between Fast and Furious and The Purge, with just a hint of The Island.
Starring Sean Bean, Billy Zane and Adrian Lester, Curfew sees amateur drivers from all over the world compete in an illegal night-time street race, breaking the strict curfew imposed on them by the totalitarian government controlling their lives.
It's all mildly confusing from the get-go: it's set about five minutes in the future where the only noticeable difference seems to be a higher volume of computer screens in the streets. The reason for the curfew is initially unexplained, as are the motivations of most of the characters.
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But it was a piece of particularly tragic CGI that first raised doubts among viewers. After an early chase resulted in a car flipping off a bridge and landing upside down, with the characters inexplicably surviving, viewers took to Twitter to criticise the special effects.
The CGI car physics leave a lot to be desired. Look like a cheap video game. #Curfew
- Richard Stevens (@RichardStevens) February 22, 2019
Wait are the driving effects really bad or am I just blind #Curfew
- alex 🦉 (@dingleperalta) February 22, 2019
#Curfew car chase scenes/special effects looked pretty awful but gonna stick with the 1st episode
- Alana Robertson (@afj110) February 22, 2019
#Curfew is appalling already, What the f*ck is going on with the physics and poorly animated driving!
- Martin Dorney (@martd69) February 22, 2019
While others expressed broader criticisms of the new series.
I gave it 11 minutes. Apart from the script, acting and directing it's fine #Curfew
- Alfie McWawa (@AlfieMcWawa) February 22, 2019
Halfway through #curfew and there is zero to none progress. Just waiting for a good bit
- A Brief Commentary Of... (@ABriefCom) February 22, 2019
Regardless, Curfew has an impressive cast line-up which sees Bean joined by Phoebe Fox (Blue Iguana), Malachi Kirby (Black Mirror), Robert Glenister (Spooks), Aimee-Ffion Edwards (Peaky Blinders) and Rose Williams (Reign).
The eight-part show is written and executive produced by Matthew Read (Pusher) and directed by Colm McCarthy (Peaky Blinders).
Curfew continues next Friday (March 1) at 9pm on Sky One.
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