Steven Soderbergh and Ed Solomon‘s Full Circle (Max, 7.13) is a six-part botched-kidnapping drama, set in New York City and Guyana.
The complex tale was inspired by Akira Kurosawa‘s High and Low (’63), a similar kidnapping drama which isn’t as good as its reputation. We’ve all been instructed to drop to our knees in admiration because of the Kurosawa brand, but I saw it for the first time about a year ago and wasn’t impressed. I’m sorry but I hated the grainy, bleachy cinematography by Asakazu Nakai and Takao Saito.
I am therefore less than fully interested in Full Circle, which is about an affluent Manhattan couple (Claire Danes, Timothy Olyphant) grappling with whether to pay a ransom for a kid they don’t know; some kind of insurance scheme provides a further wrinkle. No thanks.