Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

pocketgopher As I said in the title, this show is extremely well made for a free, non- YouTubeRed series. The show's plots aren't great, and the script often feels poorly written, but we can't really complain, after all, it is free to watch! The animation and VFX of this show are brilliant, the guys at Rocket Jump really outdid themselves in that respect.

Bjorn Not your average high school show. The show centers around a school that specializes in video games, but the main focus is the wonderful mishaps that the main characters get up to. Each episode is hilarious and extremely well done, creating a wonderfully bizarre viewing experience!

georgewhittingham1 So it was late one night, scrolling through Netflix, and I thought,Video Game High School, why not? I like Gaming.Am I watching the same show as everyone else!? I had to give up after 17 minutes of excruciating garbage.Set in the future, (bullies fly off on a tandem bike) we are introduced to this nerdy skinny kid, who is playing a FPS Shoot Em Up with his friends. He somehow luckily defeats this "pro", and automatically is now a student at Video Game High School.Everything was painful. The acting was mediocre and way over exaggerated, I felt like I was watching something made in media studies by 16 year old students. Each character is automatically unlikable, geeks are skinny, bullies are broad, every girl is subjectively attractive? And the lines they delivered!? Cheesy, childish and downright stupid.The parts where they were gaming - similar to counterstrike/cod/battlefield with real people - all enemies are out in the open, each player turns into bytes when shot.It is just so off the mark, the gaming in know way represents games at all.To summarise, making a show about gaming could be great, but think about your main audience, late teens to early twenties, gaming enthusiasts who actually might be interested in a show like this. And make it appeal to them, have characters with a little depth, make the gaming as realistic and potentially gory as possible (Playing a war game with no blood or tactics?) This show feels like it is made for very young children ie: simple plot, dialog etc etc I could rant for hours about how terrible this is... But, maybe give it a chance, see if last longer than 17 minutes.

Patrick Dowdle First let's start with the great stuff, which there is plenty of.The cinematographers clearly knew what they were doing. Shots are excellently composed, lighting and camera work are top notch, particularly in context of the budget, and the entire work (thus far) has been visually compelling. The digital elements are intuitive and well done (intuitive by being instantly recognizable and relatably - for example, when a player was shot in the game, there would be a bunch of digital pixels that flew off them. It makes a lot of sense and looks cool).The soundtrack is fluid and on-key, building tensions and emotions and complimenting the arc of the story as it progresses. It's nothing particularly amazing, but it's great for the budget. The supporting actors also do a quite good job, although, like all amateur actors, there are some flaws.It's important to give credit to these backstage guys who made a really clean, professional looking film. Because honestly, I was legitimately impressed. But that's where the good impressions end, and the bad begin.I gave this work such a low review because, frankly, the acting and writing is AWFUL. Literally offensive. A fair, even good, portion of the jokes hit pretty well, but the characters are atrocious. BrianD, the 'protagonist', is arguably the bigger douche between him and his cliché, one-dimensional, nonsensical antagonist rival, The Law. Brian never listens to people, is generally psychopathically inconsiderate of other people, and is incredibly standoffish with anybody that disagrees with him. So is The Law, but hes SUPPOSED to be that way, he's the bad guy. Whats the point of making the protagonist as mean as the antagonist? I hated them both. At least the Law was a good actor, but BrianD gave a wooden, comically unconvincing performance that felt like a 'very first stab at acting ever'kind of acting.Characters don't evolve, they just do random things that don't make sense. Everybody is a huge dick to Brian, then they're suddenly not, and then they are again, and there's no reason why. Ever. Characters change without events occurring, and thats baffling. The writing makes it so that the character change is the impetus for the event, not the other way around, which is how it should be. Brian and his on-again off- again romance with Matrix, the lead female, is baffling, forced, and awkward - a set of traits that describe most of the movie.Also, a piece of work that bills itself as a 'video game movie' has an embarrassingly poor understanding of the medium. It's like the producers have never actually watched any eSports. Of course, adaptations are never perfect, but its so far off the mark that, as a gamer, I felt cheated. I wasn't expecting them to translate CSGO or CoD perfectly, but a respawn + CTF + dramatic 'evil villain speech' cliché inside a COMPETITIVE GAME? It just felt alienating.That's a good word to sum up the review. Alienating. I felt uncomfortable, confused, and apathetic to the characters' plight. The writing was bad, the actors were bad, and this work is bad. 3/10, with 2/10 points added for visuals.