Reviews

There's some films I've appreciated, if not enjoyed, that are similar, Enigma, Beautiful Mind, Imitation Game, but this is a real endurance test. 3 hours long is an hour too long, in my view. The story is told well, but it's just too much. Less is definitely more at times in filmmaking.

As for the film itself, the music is horrifically intrusive, the back and forth story telling was arty for arty sake and didn't add anything much. It's certainly a story that needs telling, but this didn't honour the story, in my view. As for the film being best movie, often the best movie seems to be given to a film that professional critics like, but I wonder if ordinary film watchers are taken into consideration?

A director's cut is needed, to shorten it and lose the black and white political scenes and change the music. Then I'd give it a much better rating.

If this were given a new title it might be quite entertaining, but it really isn't.

The worst part is that British and English are being used as synonymous, what of the voices that are Welsh, Scots, Northern Irish? Or even from parts of England that aren't in the southern east area of England, focusing on London, Blenheim palace, and Cambridge.

The title could be archetypal English, as if we all go to Oxbridge, Saville Row for clothing, only watch Shakespeare and play cricket. I'm afraid it was a bit laughable. Anyone wanting to see any sort of insight into the country are going to be disappointed. The interviewees are mildly entertaining, but frankly it could have been so much better.

I admit I avoided watching this because I thought it was very violent, then I watched the first series......

It's violent but not as violent as I thought it might be, but it's not so much a mystery as a crime show, and I know I make a distinction, but I expect Death in Paradise to be a bit daft, it's what makes it, but when it comes to grittier tv I expect more realism.

There are so many plot holes, oddities, Luther break the rules on a regular basis....... and the cases he solves aren't always explained very well.....

For me if you want a gritty crime drama......Happy valley is a much better watch.

I persevered with this even though I would have said westerns aren't my thing, but with so many good reviews, and I'm getting older.... I thought I would try this, and watched it all. I wasn't really sure I understood it, might be my fault, but there you are.

I can certainly see it's well produced and scenic, and the cinematography is impressive. I ended up letting it flow over me, and be impressed by the scenes, although there's perhaps too many very dark scenes, where it's not easy to see what is going on.

If you like westerns, then I'd recommend it, if you aren't a fan, I don't think it will convince you....

I watched all of this, but I found it very hard to engage with it. It's hard to say why, some good acting, but I found it underwhelming, and I just note that I found that at any point I could have just stopped watching and I don't feel I'd have felt I was missing out.

It's certainly possible that other people would have enjoyed this, indeed someone else found it interesting from the start. Give it a try, but it's curiously not connecting with me.

I think it might have been better if it hadn't jumped around so much, perhaps it would have been better as a two hour drama, rather than three hours of drama.

What I have read of Hardy novels, and seen other adaptations, I don't rate him as a storyteller. Stories are contrived, reliant on chance and coincidence.

This is a well made film, acting is good. Settings are lovely.

The plot, though, predictable, daft in places, ending was obvious from start, and for something that was supposed to be about the independent woman, fails singularly......

And the happy ever after ending leaves there were still loose ends.

He's engaging, and he tried his best.

It feels like he needs to do a much simplified version of this show before I even begin to understand what this was all about.

It's a fascinating subject but this program just made me feel very thick, jumping through a whole host of scientific ideas, it feels this is for those who already have a reasonable scientific knowledge.

The test for me is if I want to rewatch it, and the answer is no, no one is especially likeable, the plot line is pretty predictable, and although I saw it to the end if I hadn't seen it to the end I don't feel I'd have rushed to have finished it.

I tried to enjoy this, but the film is too long, the idea of a city doesn't appear for ages, and it feels dull, much of the time. I think this should be a bit of history that should be better known, but this film just didn't do it for me.

I watched every episode, unlike some reviewers but I genuinely wish I hadn't. It was six hours with zero likeable characters and personally I didn't really care about anyone. Ok it was intriguing enough to carry on, but if I were to suggest that there's more than an echo of Daphne Du Maurer's Rebecca, which is a much stronger story. It's not a duplicate, but it reminds me of it.

Alan Bennett said that he chose things on the back of whether he would want to spend time with the characters. I didn't enjoy my three hours in the company of this drama, it felt like two parts would have sufficed, or one longer episode. There are far more engaging stories to be told, I'd much prefer the Christie adaptation or perhaps Dorothy L Sayers or Margery Allingham, rather than this kind of drama.

Music by Cole Porter, P G Wodehouse wrote the book, some of the best musical tunes, fabulous performances, if you can't get to the theatre then this is the next best thing and I cannot recommend it too highly.

By the end I felt uplifted! It is, for me, one of the real greats of the theatre, alongside Kiss Me Kate and Crazy for you, to send you away with tunes in your head and a smile on your face!

Series one was excellent, really good entertainment, loved it, series 2 plummeted in quality, became lazy, soap operaish, and so many pregnancies to fill the time, the story of the older couple seemed to become sidelined, and the unlikeable families became more prominent.

Whisper it but I wasn't a great fan of the original series, even seeing Worzel at an event didn't work for me.

This series though I found charming, engaging, and beautifully made. Cast were all excellent, it's not an hilarious comedy but I don't think it sets out to be, it just makes you smile and feel good. I didn't come to this. I didn't know any of Mackenzie Crook's previous work but this feels like a project he really wanted to do, not just a job. He's to be commended.

Is my response on each episode, it felt, to me, confused and confusing, with characters changing, plot lines that seem incomprehensible, others enjoyed it but....

I can't pretend I have seen them all, I'm watching the series broadcast in 2021 and tried the start of the series. I find, quite simply, it isn't to my taste, the plots seem convoluted, unnecessary complicated family aspects to the story, I enjoy a good drama and I have tried with this, just not for me.

This is my contender for the best mystery film ever made, there have been 3 other versions, with Molina, Suchet, Branagh, but this is the strongest film version. Why?

Cast is Hollywood's finest

The soundtrack is superb

The cinematography is amazing.

The plot is a classic one from the pen of Agatha Christie.