What Is the Story About?
Vortex follows a police officer named Ludovic Beguin as he experiences a mysterious glitch inthe virtual reality investigation setup used in the year 2025. The glitch enables him to see and interact with his dead wife who passed away around 27 years ago. The film follows the exploration of the AI and then takes the route of a murder mystery thriller.
Performances?
One of the vital flaws of Vortex is that the show demanded a stronger cast. Not that the cast was disappointing, but that none of them stood out. Although the lead performance from Tomer Sisley is adequate, one would wonder how some of the emotional highs of the show would’ve landed in the hands of a seasoned actor. His chemistry with Camille Claris is easy on the eyes.
Analysis
Created by Franck Thilliez, Camille Couasse and Sarah Farkas, Vortex is produced by Slimane-Baptiste Berhoun from a screenplay by Camille Couasse and Sarah Farkas. Vortex is a marriage of multiple engrossing genres like sci-fi, time-travel and mystery thriller.
The show essentially opens to the day the loop (as in all time travel shows/movies) begins. Or more precisely, at a plot point where everything begins.In 1998, Melanie, wife of Ludo wakes up in the morning to look after their toddler and then goes for a jog. Quickly, Ludo learns that his wife has died, fallen from a cliff.
Mélanie, was an investigating judge at the Brest High Court and Ludo, a cop. Time takes us forward to 2025 where cases are being investigated with the help of AI. Remarried and father to two children including his daughter with Melanie, Ludo is doing well in his life. Ludo and his friend Nathan are amidst investigating a case (the death of a woman ashore under suspicious situations). Although there’s a desperation within the unit to prove the death as an accident, Nathan and Ludo finds it suspicious.
Whilst investigating the crime scene using AI, a bizarre glitch occurs and Ludo begins seeing his dead wife Melanie. Initially tagged as hallucination, Ludo begins to realise the glitch in matrix has actually triggered the scope of going back in time. Desperate to save his dead wife, Ludo and Melanie begins manipulating time thereby losing his present.
Deeply hampered by the butterfly effect caused as an aftermath of the glitch that put him in deep loss, Ludo understands that his ex-wife was indeed murdered. The show now takes the turn of a murder mystery. Emotionally and mentally wrecked, Nathan now begins to suspect anything and anyone unreasonably.
How Ludo investigates the cause of his ex-wife’s death and perpetrators of her murder forms the next half of Vortex. To put things into perspective, Vortex is a very entertaining show. Even when it takes the silliest shapes possible, you’re engrossed by where the narrative takes you. That’s the cusp of a good sci-fi show that handles time-travel props effectively.
Vortex doesn’t make or break grounds, but weaves emotions, sci-fi and mystery cleverly even while coming across a tad bit illogical and convenient at places. If you’re a fan of the genre, you’d surely dig Vortex despite its all unexplainable and silly fallacies.
Music and Other Departments?
Audrey Ismael & Olivier Coursier’s music for Vortex is elevatory at places and decent at best at places. However, the production design, graphics and cinematography of the series deserves to be praised.
Highlights?
Interesting Concept
Easy screenplay
Production Design
Emotional Highs
Drawbacks?
Illogical plot points
Convenient writing at places
Average casting
Did I Enjoy It?
Yes.
Will You Recommend It?
Yes. Fans of sci-fi and time travel mysteries will dig the show.
Vortex Series Review by Binged Bureau
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