Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "Heroes Reborn: Dark Matters" is a 6-part mini series from 2015 and the title already gives away that this is of course a little spin-off to the series "Heroes Reborn" and that one is actually based on the series "Heroes", so it is a bit of a never-ending story apparently. As for this one here, I found it really mediocre eventually. There is a touch of supernatural elements and the heroes here are not really liked by everybody, so as always when minorities are discriminated against (or believe they are discriminated against), drastic events are the consequence. Terrorism is one of these and it is a crucial part in the second half of this brief series. It is also the story of a guy trying to prove his sister (one of these "heroes") is actually not a criminal. The episode range from 5 minutes to 11.5 minutes and the entire thing is roughly 43 minutes long, so you can easily watch it in one sitting. I would only recommend it though to the biggest fans of "Heroes Reborn". The good thing here is that characters from the latter are also in the center of this one here and they did not include random other actors or characters as protagonists as it is often the case in these mini-series. But the acting and script are rarely above mediocre level and I have to give it a thumbs-down. Not recommended.

typedeaf-1 The two main actors, the brother and the sister, are horribly bad at over acting. It is like watching any camera shaker movie: Blair Witch, Paranormal Activity, etc. And yes, like those movies, most of the footage is from the point of view of a shaky amateur camera. You are supposed to believe that people just leave the camera on while the world is blowing up around them. The plot isn't half bad, but the acting and cinematography are horrible. I hate to say it, but the siblings just aren't camera friendly either. Maybe the modern trend is to have actors that look 'like us normal ugly people', but really who wants to watch ugly people? Sorry.Luckily, from what people have told me, the first two real episodes are nothing like this episode. If it weren't for the excellent special effects, I would have seriously questioned if this episode was even official. Hopefully the next time we have to see these actors, they will have taken some acting classes on how not to over act. The girl that plays the dorm mate isn't that bad an actress. Too bad she didn't have more lines.

peterfaure I really wish I could give it a higher score, the story and the characters are not bad.....But the whole found footage format? No sorry, it looks lame, amateurish and just plain stupid.It's a gimmick that occasionally works, mainly because of media hype, but really it's just an excuse for poor, cheap photography.Sorry, interesting story but the way it's "filmed" (sarcasm) makes it unwatchable. If I wanted to watch shows that are about as well filmed as a family's home video I would make them myself, from TV producers I expect much, much higher standards.Once again, too bad, another story with potential wasted to either save money or focus on a dumb gimmick, which is all found footage movies/shows really are. Don't watch this garbage, it will just encourage TV producers to make even more of these atrocious found footage movies/shows.Note to the makers: Bad photography is bad photography, grow up and learn how to use a camera or don't waste our time with this gimmicky garbage.

Screen Squinty This is a series of mini-episodes that form a cohesive narrative in the span of one normal episode of the main show. It centres primarily on a brother, Quinten (Henry Zebrowski) and sister, Phoebe (Aislinn Paul), one of which is an Evo (the name of those with super powers) and their progression of experiences with that reality, interspersed with shots from the hacker anarchist Micah and Noah Bennett declaring their (from the original series) and clips of Evos declaring their powers.This was done in a found footage style for the most part (it appears to have gone off the beaten path style-wise here and there), told from both the brother and the sister's point of view at first before centring mainly on the brother.There is an excellent flow within the plot, where you see the first innocence and wonder of the reality of having a super power, then the repercussions of having that power within a less then accepting society with increasing tensions between the two types of humans, falling in a neat domino effect that joins these two isolated characters into possibly the main stream of the Heroes Reborn plot.The successive evolution of experience combined with the film style, and the brother especially, who is particularly interesting in his well-rounded personality with a strong sense of family attachment and fortitude but yet still remains a believably regular dude, makes for a peaking of expectations for the main show in the hopes it will maintain the promise of Dark Matters. This was also a good choice for the primary focus, as he presents the relatable figure to the likely target audience of the show.