The title "The Flash: Chronicles of Cisco" gives away what you can expect here, namely a 4-part mini series about the character Cisco from the successful television series "The Flash". The latter does not appear in this one, but that is not too surprising as it is a really short work. The fact that each episode runs for approximately two minutes only makes it obvious that if you want to watch it, you should do so in one sitting as it is under 10 minutes. It's the story of a guy at a lab working late and he gets surprised by a villain who's on a mission to retrieve something really precious. This is where the problem starts. The lead actor wasn't particularly good and his female counterpart seemed only convincing next to the inferior male actor, not in her own right. There are also many problems with logic here, for example how really she is not seen or caught by anybody else and maybe there isn't even anybody else, no guards, no security, nothing that we find out about. Oh well. the sets are fine you could say. But overall, there isn't a single episode from these 4 where I would say it's worth seeing and instead I am glad it was this very short. Superhero projects, especially series, are all quantity now, rarely quality and this add-on sure does not get me in the mood to start watching "The Flash" any time soon. The shots at comedy ("that's the sense of it"), pop culture references ("Justin Bieber concert") and implied romance ("don't date men with food stains on their shirt") feel try-hard just like the sense of fake depth they were giving it at the end with the boring dream explanation (done so many times and almost always better) and the Inception reference that she (or somebody else) indeed must have been there. Watched a nice little, also really short, mini-series feauturing Grimm today and that one was pretty fine. This one here is not. My suggestion is you skip it, unless you (for whatever reason) really really love The Flash.
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