Netflix's All The Light We Cannot See Receives Harsh Criticism from Critics

2023-11-02 15:04:05

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Netflix's All The Light We Cannot See Gets Slammed By Critics

Initial reviews for the much-hyped Netflix series, All The Light We Cannot See, directed by Shawn Levy, have been released, and they are far from positive.

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The mini-series, starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and rising stars Aria Mia Loberti and Louis Hofmann, is based on Anthony Doerr's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel from 2014. It follows the lives of two teenagers, Marie-Laure, a blind French girl, and Werner Pfennig, a German boy forced to join and fight for the Nazi Regime, during the height of World War II.

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However, critics have not been kind to the latest offering from executive producer Shawn Levy of Stranger Things fame and writer Steven Knight of Peaky Blinders. The series has been described as "a shonky, star-studded dud," "a trite, turgid mess," and simply "terrible."

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What the Critics Say

1. "It is terrible. The acting is almost uniformly bad. The dialogue gets worse and worse... All nuance is lost, all thought has been excised and it feels both drearily slow and stupidly rushed."
2. "The show could be forgiven some shonkiness and self-indulgence if the central chemistry between Marie and Werner was coherent. But the achronological telling wreaks havoc with their relationship, and the German soldier is relegated to a footnote. What’s left is a cartoonish portrait of a Nazi in pursuit of a blind girl’s diamond, which does little credit to the sheer scale of suffering endured in both our recent history and the contemporary moment."
3. "Characters who were delicately nuanced on the page are drawn in rudimentary strokes on screen. Heroes are all saintly, villains are all cartoonishly evil. Ruffalo’s mangled sing-song accent wanders randomly across the continent, often within the same sentence. Levy has reduced a lyrical novel into a Ladybird view of history, drenched in a sickly soundtrack. This series looks lavish, all CGI set pieces and painterly compositions, but it’s style over substance."
4. "At four hours, All The Light We Cannot See is just barely longer than the feature film it nearly became when producer Scott Rudin first optioned the rights. A more extended story may have enriched its protagonists beyond figureheads for innocence, integrity, or loving parenthood. In its current form, All The Light We Cannot See calls on viewers to acknowledge the complex humanity of others while failing to depict much itself."
5. "All The Light We Cannot See is visually impressive and can feel like a movie in places, with its glossy production. But, unfortunately, the quality desperately lacks in other places such as the convincing writing of these characters and their four-episode arcs. It's a shame, really, as with the likes of Laurie and Loberti, their acting could've been put to better use."

All The Light We Cannot See is now available for streaming on Netflix.

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