Adrian JC

I was getting bored of police procedurals, stopped watching them but had this one suggested to me... Oh my, what had I missed? I've rarely seen a drama pulled me in as deeply as this one. It has everything for me - intrigue, surprise, steady development, jump scares, realism, characters I don't like then grow to like, characters I like but grow to hate, and some I'm as yet undecided about despite the fact the series is completed. Setting it in Scotland was also a masterstroke, as that somehow fits the source material and events, bringing that realism I spoke of to the forefront. Production values are some of the highest I've seen, the casting is perfect - the characters' strengths, weaknesses, development, and internal struggles so well drawn they could be real and their direction flows so effortlessly the work that must have gone into it is lost only in total authenticity. I can't speak highly enough of this show and all it's cast and production team. Very well done.

For me, enjoyment of a fictional story hinges on one single element. There can be angels and demons in the story, aliens, fairies, children, adults, a musical band, a time traveller, or a plain old bad-copper-done-good-police-investigation-in-Harrogate, it doesn't matter, I can enjoy them all. BUT, if the suspension of my disbelief in the premise fails, I just CAN'T enjoy the story. Because that failure niggles at the back of my mind saying: 'Even these aliens would have protected themselves against Earth-based bacteria, surely the script-writer realised THAT!' In the case of 'Years and Years' the sheer range of socially, physically, mentally, and morally diverse characters in the featured family on its own falls flat on its face for me. Even in my wildest dreams I can't envisage a family - ONE FAMILY - with such differing physical, mental, observational, backwards, forward-thinking, ecological, immature, emotional, racial, untrustworthy, and just plain DIFFERENT diverse characterisations as this one. I say again... all this in ONE family? No, it just wouldn't happen, despite what the liberals say about it being 'representative and not literal.' It's unbelievable. I can buy into a nuke being set off, as well as WHO sets it off, even though that's blatant anti-Americanism on the part of the production team to add to the list, but ALL these diversifications in ONE family? No.

The longest, most anger-inducing, pile of drivel I have ever wasted an hour and a half of my life watching. No point, no meaning, no insight, no learning, no message, and no eye-opening to ANYTHING at all. Please, please, PLEASE, do NOT watch this.

Acting is great, but the laughs are few and far between. I think because I will never understand how they thought it appropriate to make a comedy about someone cursed to die.

Just awful. Formulaic, unfunny, and with acting about as wooden as wooden can be. Not a great comeback platform for Diaz and pretty standard for Foxx. No chemistry, no laughs, and no depth to the characters. The only, ONLY surprise was that the bad guy turned out to be an American, when there were English characters in it. Maybe Gordon and O'Brien have been living in a box for the last forty years...

There is so much wrong with this movie I really don't know where to start. Okay, I do - with the beginning. The characters are obnoxious, the premise is ridiculous, there is as much depth to the hunted characters as there is to a sheet of paper, and there's no scene setting, no preamble, no build up, and no possibility of investment. Within a few minutes the plot leaves you in no doubt this is all about showing gratuitous violence without justification, apart from the moments where it's unclear whether the film is a comedy or not. Yes, some scenes are THAT bad. Don't waste your life watching this, it's utter ****.

Dreadful, right from the get-go. The decision to film the opening sequence in the style of an old fashioned hand-drawn cartoon could only have been made worse by filming the entire thing in black and white. Didn't work for me.

Every so often a movie comes along which magnifies the differences not only in what is acceptable in comedy but also simply in what is humourous and what isn't. This movie does both of those and goes a step further - it exaggerates and then draws huge rings around what appeals to people either side of The Pond. If you live on this side you'll probably find absolutely nothing in the trailers or as much of the movie as you can stand in the slightest bit amusing or entertaining. Disturbing maybe, but not funny. If you live in America, you'll no doubt be determined to find it funny, even against your better judgement.

This was advertised as a 'thrill ride' It isn't. It's so slow I was more interested in how the pig blood on the big window kept changing colour.