Robert Horwich

Let me qualify the review. I really like action caper films, I have no issue with ‘Criminals as heros’ in the world of fiction. However, As the film ends, I thought, this is the most amoral film that I have seen for many years. In almost every other caper film the criminals don’t get away entirely free, they are either caught or pay a heavy price for their crimes. The perfect example of this would be ‘The Italian Job’, we root for the thieves, they are the hero’s, but in the end..... In this film, not only do the protagonists win...big... there is no price to pay. It’s as if there was no victim at all, yet they’ve taken millions upon millions. Almost worse than this, they break the criminal code and literally fit up someone to go to jail. Of course, he is a man and thus must be nasty and evil whereas the women, con artists and thieves all, are good and pretty. Shockingly poor.

Oh dear, but how the mighty have fallen. I must state that I was a huge fan of TNG, similarly of Patrick Stewart, so you can imagine that I was very much looking forward to this show. The 'natural sequel to that great Star Trek series. However, by episode 3, I actually had to switch off, it was simply too awful to watch. Exposition, exposition, exposition and the ridiculous americanisation of all alien races. Poor and disappointing drivel, slow, poorly written and boring.

An absolutely dreadful and unwatchable piece of modern BBC PC drivel. Shockingly poor, given the actors and the basic story. I have read the original book perhaps 6 times since I was a child, it's a true classic. A simple, linear, engaging, horror story. The TV nonsense adds ridiculous additional story lines that are rather less believable than Martians landing in rural England. The BBC is dying whilst we watch, destroyed by the need to be 'modern'