Kaleidoscope Review: Told A Lot of Alternating Stories | Netflix Series
Cast: Giancarlo Esposito, Paz Vega, Rufus Sewell, Tati Gabrielle, Rosaline Elbay, Peter Mark Kendall, Jai Courtney, Niousha Noor, Jordan Mendoza
Directors: Mairzee Almas, Everardo Gout, José Padilha
Streaming Platform: Netflix
Filmyhype.com Ratings: 3.5/5 (three and a half stars) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]
Kaleidoscope Netflix’s 8-episode limited series follows a group of thieves plotting to rob a $7 billion bond from the world’s highest security vault company. with more than just money behind it for revenge. After the world-famous robbery, Netflix is trying to push the robbery-style series right next to it. many things together This was another attempt. But it comes in a limited series that tells the story of a thief who hopes to rob at once. Become a billionaire from a mafia gang who deposits 7 billion bonds with a former thief who turned to build a high-security vault business. with the vengeance of the leader of the gang behind him Along with a story of betrayal according to a common formula.
Kaleidoscope Review: The Story
After all, the true story of bonds, of the vault, of hurricane Sandy is, in itself, pure cinema. Cinema that in Kaleidoscope approaches seriality (and vice versa) creating in the public a direct connection and binge-watching involvement that pushes us to consume in the shortest possible time the eight episodes which in the title refer to eight colors, quoting Tarantino’s hyenas and the endless NYC subway lines: Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Orange, Red, Pink and White.
A story that branches out and extends over a period of twenty-five years and features a band of expert thieves who try to break into the most fortified vault in New York City, protected by an infallible and ruthless security team. Making up the cast, in an array that will soon lose any point of reference, are Paz Vega, Rosaline Elaby, Jai Courtney, Peter Mark Kendall, Tati Gabrielle and the two protagonists of the chessboard: Giancarlo Esposito, who plays Leo Pep, the leader of the outlaws, and Rufus Sewell, who plays Roger Sales, a former criminal who now manages the firewall around the blockhouse hidden under the Manhattan soil.
Kaleidoscope is an ingeniously structured heist thriller that spans 25 years, broken into blocks separated in time. To that, the creator Eric Garcia (REPO MAN) adds an extra element: except the one that takes place during the robbery itself (which, chronologically, is not the last, but you must see it last), the series can be seen in any order. How is this? Each episode does not have a number but a color and a place within the chronology: the “yellow” takes place six weeks before the robbery, the “green” seven years before the robbery, the “blue” five days before the robbery, the ” red” the morning after the robbery and so on, spanning a quarter of a century accessed randomly. To me, for example, Netflix presented the episodes in a certain way, but I calculate that others will be put together differently, and I imagine that, if you want, you can also put them together chronologically. What they recommend – and the reason is understandable – is that the robbery itevent be left for last.
Loosely inspired by a true even the disappearance of $70 billion worth of bonds from a high-security vault in Manhattan during a hurricane — the series is arranged in the classic pattern of these tales involving precise and intricate thefts of a lot of planning. It depends on how you enter the story; you will see it from different circumstances and organize it based on that. Making the chronology more or less readable, it can be said that it is the story of a certain Leo Pap (Giancarlo Esposito), a white-collar thief who goes to jail for many years after being caught after a complicated robbery. Being there – but especially later, when leaving – he begins to organize a group with which he will put together the complicated robbery of the bonds.
That group is made up of the Spanish Paz Vega, who plays Ava Mercer, an Argentine lawyer (in addition to the accent that the actress doesn’t do very well, there are many quotes and references to the country in the series, including a character named… Javier Zanetti) who is the one who handles the issue of weapons and has good contacts; Peter Mark Kendall as Stan Loomis, one of Leo’s prison friends and a clever if somewhat innocent thief; Rosaline Elbay stars as Judy Goodwin, a smuggler who starts as Stan’s girlfriend but later leaves him for Bob Goodwin (Jay Courtney), an intense and somewhat unmanageable safecracker. The group is completed by Jordan Mendoza, the classic driver of the plan.
Kaleidoscope Review and Analysis
The series has a weird title Kaleidoscope, that reflects objects in it as a corner next to each other, which has nothing to do with the story. It’s just that the creator wants to tell the story alternately without sorting the timeline at all, therefore, thinking of using the name of this camera to play with the storytelling sequence only. In which the storytelling is out of order, it is not strange because there are many stories used often. But this story is deliberately switching back and forth to look confusing and confusing. Which in the beginning is still understood as a flashback story but later told the future near the day of the robbery but it’s not the robbery then the next episode goes back farther than the near day > before cutting to the narrative of a single character as a person of a thief > of the FBI that follows separately.
And then go back and tell after the robbery is over > and tell the end of all characters > Before coming back to tell the heist about what happened at the end again, which at first glance seems to make the story look stylish. But in reality, it’s very frustrating and annoying. because of this line, Viewers wanted to see more of the Mission Impossible Heist to see how to complete the mission. But the story goes back to focus on other points throughout before keeping the heist at the end. And it doesn’t have as many wow-factor heist scenes as the plot. Which doesn’t work at all. Even to help us understand what happened then. But instead, we know the end of all the characters, and it doesn’t have the peak that this genre should be by default. Even to help us understand what happened then.
The plot tries to show that the gang has good characters smart come together. But the story is not very reasonable since meeting the conversation in the middle of the restaurant. Frequent meetings in public were planned to rob money of the size and there is also a villain that has that much influence, causing the vulnerability of the viewers to not believe that this gang is intelligent trying to see. In addition, the story also tries to create an annoyingly stupid character for the gang to make the story look unnaturally turbulent. Well, we understand that the script is trying to set up a betrayal. So, I had to put a character like this. to have problems with missions but it has reduced credibility even more. Is it necessary to use people like this to join a gang that hopes to rob the world like this? But instead, use a character that looks like he’s prepared to betray and puts it in a story like this.
Another strange thing is that the first half of the story is made out in a rather intense way. Although there are a few spots to look funny and relax, in the second half of the story, the story tries to do something funny. Many things are meant to be funny jokes, especially episode 7, which is the chapter that sums up the end of the gang of thieves. Instead, it came out funnily. Rarely mixes all the reasons It’s as if the director wanted the tone of the story to change according to the pink episode title. from the multicolored kaleidoscopic So I had to try to tear the story into a joke. But it doesn’t make sense. In addition, the general audience should not think that this is an idea to match the title of the episode.
But it’s still good that the real story is also good that there is a plot sequence of resentment of the protagonist, the leader of a gang of thieves who has a plot in the past, and the evil boss, the owner of a safe deposit box business. which the story gradually Alternate storytelling what the story of past these two did together with the protagonist’s daughter involved from childhood until growing up and causing drama to connect as to who was at fault in the end Which will lead to the final episode of the story revealing who is the true traitor of the story? This is the point where viewers can still endure watching and want to know some answers. In the end, this turned out to be a work that tried to make the heist style look new. But as a result, it makes the story look not fun, too lacking. If told honestly, it may even be more fun because the story is not bad. But just the director wants to tell a story. until that is the reason
The game of time changes works well, generating some expectations that are later altered and modified, situations that are not as expected, and the usual twists that are supposed to be surprising. Esposito is, without a doubt, the base on which Kaleidoscope stands. Not only is he a great actor and his motivations, as well as the situations he has to live through, are quite complex and entangled, but his character is somewhat reminiscent of that of Breaking Bad, which gives him extra gravity, the feeling that the crime has a more than the efficient organizer.
The problem – of the group and also of the series – is that it is very evident from the outset that not all of his crew are qualified for the task at hand, which allows us to guess some of the problems that will appear later. Not all of them, of course, because in any case there will be surprises that will come from perhaps unexpected places. And while its chronological twists don’t succeed in reinventing the series or the genre, Kaleidoscope still works quite effectively within what it sets out to do.
Kaleidoscope Review: The Last Words
The theme of collecting billions of robberies is like a Mission Impossible mission that tries to make it look new by naming the title to look chic a Kaleidoscope and then telling a lot of alternating stories with episode titles in shades that changed the mood. To make the story look chic corresponding to the title. But as a result, it makes the story look not as fun, too lacking, leaving the peak during the robbery at the end. And there’s nothing that can make me, wow telling the story directly Maybe it’s even more fun because it’s not that bad. (The first half looks fun. but the second half is bad) but the director just wants to tell the story Until causing the matter to look unnecessarily difficult.
