Reviews

This one fits in nicely with 90% of TV drama. It fills in the gaps between the occasional good stuff and serves as padding for Netflix.

That is it's purpose and as such, is banged out factory-like along with dozens of others low brow shows. There's very little money thrown at it. Mostly 2D characters forcing along the disjointed plot, acting by numbers and jobbing actors who don't really care what they're told to say. Ok for some background noise while you're doing something more interesting. There's really not much more today other than I have another forty characters to finish this revie...

If you give up after ten minutes then you really have no right to comment on the whole story. If you're so worried about the filter then stop watching if you can't see past it to a great story. The acting is superb, as is the editing, script and direction. This is a quality programme.

Great overview of the events of WW2. Interviews with historians, tacticians and the heroes of the time. Watching the battle of Britain episode, the real colourised footage was interspersed with clips from the 1960s film of the battle. Passing if off as genuine. I bit my lip and continued to enjoy the detail until one clip popped up of 1960s vehicles. At this point I felt my intelligence was being insulted. A real shame that desperation or laziness undermines the overall integrity of the programme.

Acting and photography in this flick is a very high standard. Dark but lovely and polished. All this counts for nothing though as it's let down by a story that's so disjointed you realise you stopped caring earlier on. The first part of the film I thought was a clever use of some cool cinematic style of weaving stories together. If I put the effort in to keep track, it would pay off as the film went on. But no. There's no story, just things that happen. It's full of pointless dead end scenes. Gangster one beats up gangster two who then beats up gangster one etc and on occasion a random moll appears and disappears. No character background or development either. They start off bad and, well, stay bad and carry on doing things that they did at the start of the film. Two hours....two hours of my life!! I suppose I'm optimistic and waited for that "ah, I get it" moment that was never going to come.