Dev1lsAdvoca8

Hhhhmmm. You can certainly add humour to an action piece. There is often a place for pathos in commedy. However, if you try to produce something that tries to be equally both, and add in a soft porn overlay you end up with Obliterated, and obliterated is what Netflix should have done with the idea for this about 10 seconds after it was first proposed. Everything about this is awful. The casting, acting, script, dialogue and plot are just pants. It's difficult to know where to begin when you just want it to end. It shouldn't even qualify for that most oddball of acolade; being so bad it might develop a cult following. Well each to their own. Watch this if you must, but make sure you have sufficient health insurance to cover the possible frontal labotomy you might require following more than 60 seconds exposure.

There are lots of one star reviews on here that set out in great detail why they are a one star review. Obejectively, if you have watched this it is difficult to disagree with any of them. There are also quite a number of 5 star reviews that boil down to the analysis of the Brilliant Kid in the Fast show: 'this is 5 stars 'cos Fool Me Once is Brillliiannnt' - ok but why so - silence. The Plot and Script have more holes than the average Collander and the Casting is terrible. Sorry Adeel Akhtar as a DS is the most least convincing portrayal of a dective I have ever sceen, only shortly ahead of Emmett Scanlan as the most unlikely Red Cap of all time. As for the acting, I suspect La Lumley must be giggling with Dame Judi over which of the Grande Dames put in the most ludicrous over the top thespian hammy performance, Lumley in this or Dame Judi in The Chronicles of Riddick. No opportunity to replace dialogue with cliche or character development with steryotype is missed...ever. So much so there is almost no room for anything else. However, the fundemental flaw of the whole thing is quite simple. This is a plot about Gaslightling. For that to work you need to create convincing tension, fear, confussion, ruthlessness in both those giving and receiving. This is stuff the TV audience should be watching from cowering behind a cushion. Instead what we got was comedy gold; a silly unbeleivable plot chase akin to the end titles of a Benny Hill show. It's early January. To quote the Blue Nile 'It's like Memphis After Elvis..there's nothing going on'. So we kept at it in the folorn hope that there would be a grand finale that would rescue the rest of the series. Nope. The gnawing feeling from the end of Episode 2 that this was total pants beyond redemption proved the old saying that your first instinct is usually the correct one, and you never get a second chance to make a first impression.

I have to declare I am someone who has enjoyed much of both Scott and Pheonix's cinematic output. So I find it hard to award them 1 Star. To be fair, I'd have given them none if it was possible such is the dismalness of this affair. It's not like there wasn't enough warning from the vast majority of reviews. Firstly, this film seems to have no idea of what it is meant to be. If it was meant to be an insight in to the relationship between Napoleon and his wife then that is what is should have been. If it was meant to be a sweeping biopic of Napolean then this isn't it. So what is it meant to be? Absolutley no idea, but the first 60 minutes is pure tedium. Much has been made of the terrible hstorical inaccuracies. Scott's answer to critics on this is 'get a life'. Well that's ok if, to quote form Scott's historically iffy Gladiator, you can affirmatively answer the 'Are you entertained?' question. The answer in this household is absolutely yes to Gladiator and absolutely not to Napolean. The reconstructions of Austerlitz and Waterloo have correctly been widely panned. So nothing to add there. Two more to consider, why is there no proper mention of Trafalgar 1805 one of the most significant and improtant Naval Battles of all time that ended Napolean's ambition to invade England forever? Secondly, and a minor point, it was Marshall Ney who was sent to arrest Napoleon on his return from Elba Excile in 1815, not whoever they said in the film. It is widely understood that the raptuous welcome Ney's troop gave to Napolean was far more euphoric than shown in the film! So in summary, this film is made up nonsense that Pheonix mubbles incoherently through, and is about as entertaining as an additional Tax demand. Don't waste any of your hard earned on watching this.