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Like a rocket disintegrating on lift-off, the year's most-hyped Netflix release 3 Body Problem comes apart in a tangle of unlikeable characters, cliched plot devices and hours of boredom, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS
What's mind-boggling about 3 Body Problem ( Netflix ) is that it cost a record-breaking $20 million (£15.7m) per episode... when parts of it look like a low-budget BBC crime drama.
Beginning in Communist China during the height of mad despot Chairman Mao's genocide in the 1960s, it leaps forward to Britain in the present day where scientists are being driven out of their senses by unexplained phenomena. A few of the scenes are genuinely powerful, none more than the opening sequence, where teenage Red Army soldiers are trying to force a university professor to renounce science, by beating him in front of a baying mob. Benioff and Weiss have no idea whether they're making a philosophical thriller, a historical epic about the cultural revolution, a bog-standard crime drama (complete with shambling, chain-smoking maverick copper who has one last chance to save his career), a rom-com, a horror movie or a trailer for a video game.
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