Reviews

We've just watched the first episode and i wont be watching any more. Its a pity because the production values seem high and they've spent some money on it, but the script is very poor and the central characters are really unlikeable.

Stefan thinks is a good idea to propose to his girlfriend at someone else's wedding! And the actress who plays Katie is not attractive enough to carry a series like this. And it isn't funny

After watching this, and it thankfully ending, I switched over and watched an episode of Brassic and laughed more in the first 2 minutes than in the full 30 of this rubbish!

I just wasted 2 hours watching an episode about the hunt for a Nazi U boat. To save you doing the same thing i can exclusively reveal that they didn't find it. In fact they didn't find anything. In fact i suspect that they couldn't find Mr Fishburnes backside using both hands.

Surely there should be some governance for programmes like this to show that they contain no discoveries or new information whatsoever.

Ruin the main action scenes and climax of the story by interrupting it with dance scenes! The director should be banned.

I would love to have given this film a much higher mark, but i felt it missed a golden opportunity to produce a potential classic. It has all the right ingredients, a good likeable cast, a topical subject with the recent films on dunkirk and churchill raising interest in this era, a clever premise of them making a film within a film, and there are some nice lines and good performances (Bill Nighy is excellent as always) but for me they blow it through the death of one of the leading characters. I understand they may have felt they were making a point about war, but for me they were being too clever. A nice happy ending would have left the film as a classic feel good film, like a "local hero", instead of a slightly frustrating one. This is especially annoying as within the film Gemma Artertons character is advised to make sure one of their films has a happy ending. A pity they didn't heed their own advice.

I hate films like this that aren't what they are supposed to be. We wanted a romantic comedy and this was billed as one. It isn't. Firstly the film shows a different approach to "comedy" - it has no funny lines, and no funny situations. Secondly I fail to see why if you are setting out to make a romantic comedy you have to include a death in a film, and the obvious impact on the child casts a pall over the rest of the movie.If I wanted to watch a film about bereavement, I'd have selected something from the "Films about Bereavement" section.Thirdly there was little or no chemistry or romance between the leads. So really this Film should have more accurately been billed as a "blank, blank" Film, but perhaps that wouldn't have sold as well? Another thought - in sports players who break the rules face suspensions or fines, Why don't they bring in the same system for movies? whoever wrote this rubbish could then be suspended (3 months, 6 months?)or perhaps have points on his licence like for driving offences so in future you can look at a film this, and see it billed as a romantic comedy....by a man with 6 points on his licence for producing previous garbage!

I am a big Bond fan, and this is the first one that I haven't seen at the cinema since Diamonds are Forever in 1971. I saw the DVD yesterday and what a disappointment.

Firstly the good stuff, the locations are original, which is not easy when the franchise has been going round the world for 40+ years, and the photography is excellent ( the cranes against the ocean during the chase, the colours of the sites around lake como)and Judi Dench is always excellent..... and that's pretty much it.

Now the list of moans Daniel Craig is not my idea of Bond, the publicity machine seems to have gone into overdrive about Mr Craig, but nobody that i know who has personally seen the film liked it or him. Craig at times looks more like a down and out rather than a suave agent. He was good in Layer Cake but has zero charisma in this The basic plot (Bond takes on financier for international terrorism) is a good start but has numerous stupid ideas that spoil it for example why would Bond break into M's flat rather than just talk to her in her office? The chronology of the film is all wrong, it clearly shows it's set in 2006 but disregards all his other background, for me this didn't work. the film then drifts off into the overlong card game, with the ridiculous defibrillator scene The villain is rubbish - his "gadget" is an asthma inhaler! my mum could take him out and she's 81! Bond is fooled by everyone, the women, the villain, the bloke who is meant to be helping him, he has to rescued by the bad guys! he gets beaten up loads as well and he gets tortured, and in an embarrassing way, Connery would have bitten through the ropes and killed the guy with the chair! The girls aren't memorable enough some of the lines are pathetic, one is about "if all that was left of you was your hat(?) and your little finger".....embarrassing. Personally I want to go to see escapist Bond, charming the ladies, killing the baddies, always being one step ahead, and always having something witty to say. If I wanted the so called depressing realism I'd look in the mirror. Bottom Line ( no pun intended after the reference to the torture scene)if you didn't have Judi Dench in this, it could pass as just another Bourne/transporter/crank type of average action movie. This is a poor addition to the Bond series. Very disappointing.I hope that they ensure the people who wrote this, don't have anything to do with the next one.

I haven't seen this film for years, but on an episode of "This is your Life" which I think was devoted to Lionel Jeffries he told the story that during the making of this film as he was meant to be pole vaulting out of a maze, during one of the intelligence tests set for the soldiers. he casually mentioned he wanted some sort of war cry to make his jump more dramatic, one of the other actors "helpfully" suggested the "old gaelic war cry" of Pogue Mahone! which Jeffries used,shouting it loudly as he vaulted, not knowing what it meant. Apparently this went unnoticed except where they speak gaelic and which brought the house down when the film was shown in Ireland and Scotland, (it translates as "kiss my ****")