Jonathan Porteous

Very poor. Slow boring - unlikable characters. Terrible dialogue. Maudlin miserable depressing. Ludicrous plot. No sympathy for any characters none of them plausible. Just sympathy for the viewer. Hope BC erases this from his memory asap and moves on. I will try and do the same.

Great series well acted though being picky it needs more editing and I don’t care about the lawyer’s feet or the cat. You could shave an hour off by getting rid of those scenes alone. Good all round acting ensemble - I particularly liked Box and the chief prosecutor and Naz’s dad. SPOILERS Big plot-hole that others have mentioned ie why Naz didn’t have blood on him. And did they search for other peoples DNA in bedroom? Surely defence would require that pretty basic. Don’t believe junior lawyer would do what she did really dumb. Trial procedure and courtroom scenes bore little relation to actual process. Slightly disappointing ending.

Guy Ritchie inhabits his own stylised world of cliches and he’s never going to change. It’s Lords and shotguns and wise cockney villains and boxing and travellers and selling drugs and violence and pompous vacuous speeches by self-important criminals attaching undue importance to expensive things. Paper thin characterisation, absurd plotting and over the top lurid “characters”. Maybe people like this existed 50 years ago. They don’t now. This series was written by AI based on Guy Ritchies previous work. Quite fun though for all that.

Dire film. Paper thin nasty characters, feeble illogical plot, dialogue sparse and dull. Horrible and inappropriate music. Misguided failed attempt to make the psychopathic idiotic central character into some sort of hero. Unnecessarily and voyeuristically violent. Complete waste of time watching it. Trash.

Disappointed by this film. Dumb plot. At the start why does James Mason pretend to be someone else when he thinks the person he’s talking to knows exactly who he is, indeed that’s the reason he is trying to kill him! And, except to allow Hitchcock to film a dramatic scene, why does he dream up a ridiculously convoluted way to try and kill him when he has him locked up in his girlfriends carriage already. Grant can be good when he is menacing and charming at the same time, here he just looks knackered. YMS is beautiful but a hopeless actress. The dialogue, supposedly very funny, is predictable and on one note, a lorry load of sub James Bond dry one-liners in the face of intense danger. I was rooting for James Mason when they were on Mount Rushmore.

Fantastic! Really sweet, ambiguous characters that you really care for after a while. Consistently funny and well observed.