Boobirt Stylish but barely mediocre overall

GarnettTeenage The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

ThrillMessage There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

Suman Roberson It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

emmaclarke781 The thing that struck me most after watching this was how eerily normal it all was. Not Ian Brady (Sean Harris) His behaviour screamed dangerous individual. But everything else. This drama depicts so well the minute details of everyday, boring life. The conversations, the slang, the setting just reminded me of people i knew and places I've been. It made the eventual reveal of the crimes all the more effective. It reminds you this can happen anywhere and be anyone you know. The show has great attention to detail and 1960s Working class England is brought to life amazingly well. You feel like you are actually there. The houses and streets are grim and so are the people and their life's: Teenagers married with babies, young men struck on the dole, violent men ignored and semi accepted by everyone. It doesn't strike me as a time of innocence shattered by the Moor Murders but a time full of narrow-mindedness with a simmering undercurrent of brutality. The cast all play their roles fantastically and the script is excellent. No character is completely sympathetic and no character (with the exception of Brady) is one dimensional . Even Hindley, in a controversial move is portrayed as someone who loves her sister fiercely and is capable of compassion for her niece and dogs. All in all, an excellent sensitive, realistic portrayal of the banality of evil and the extraordinary aspects of normality .

Syl The director and writers along with the cast and crew don't forget the victims in this senseless crime spree by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley who committed them in the early 1960s. The five victims included three young children and two teenagers. Pauline Reid and Edward Evans were the teen victims while younger children, Keith Bennett, Lesley Anne Downe, and John Kilbride were also met by cruel fates. The film version is dramatic, tragic, and doesn't show the actual murders. This television movie has a haunting move and maybe more on Myra's side of the story with her sister, Maureen, and mother more involved. We don't know much about Ian Brady's background. Once Maureen and her husband began spending time with Myra and Ian. It becomes dark especially since they go to the Saddleworth Moors to spend their free time. It seems like a haunting place to be for anybody. Maureen and Dave are unaware of Ian and Myra's crimes at the time. When Dave and Maureen go to the police, it unravels the Pandora's box of secrets held by the couple. Although Myra Hindley and Ian Brady's crimes are always being written about, there is an interest especially in an attractive and intelligent woman like Myra who did everything for Ian. You have to wonder why Myra did it. The two part version is well-acted by the cast and crew. Maxine Peake is in rare form as Myra Hindley. Joanna Frogatt is perfect as her long suffering and guilt ridden sister, Maureen. Sean Harris is fine as Ian Brady. The film is a haunting look at one of the most disturbing crimes in British history.

T Y This gets off to a poor start by losing its nerve, and becoming a very conventional sermon. Of all the ways to tell the story of the Moors murders, they chose a police procedural; a genre that dull-witted citizens can watch in their safe living rooms without being exposed to anything particularly troubling; and learn some lesson they can usually forget by lunch tomorrow. In order to take viewer identification off of Brady and Hindley, we arrive late in the sequence of things and are offered instead the protagonist/viewpoint of David Smith, a belated accomplice. 4 out of 5 of the crimes of Brady and Hyndley are already over. And the movie is too polite to name their grotesque acts.It would have helped if they specified their deeds, and made the two as grotesque and depraved as they actually were. Instead any detail that would drive home the horror and revulsion of their crimes is lost in deference to 'good taste.' The movie keeps hedging its premise. It flirts with banality in offering details like a lisping police sergeant, but providing almost no detail about the murders. This is a movie where we spend maybe 2 hours with the killers, and zero time with any of the 5 victims. Just what Brady and Hindley needed, more exposure. The most they can spare for the victims is a few images before the crawl. Bizarre. It's well-acted, but mostly ends up being a bland, forgettable study of police work, rather than the vivid, horrifying portrayal of evil that is now long overdue. Audiences will still need to ask their older relatives, precisely what it is Brady and Hindley did to deserve their exceptional shunning.

beresfordjd Sean Harris and Maxine Peake really bring the monsters that were the Moors Murderers to life. Harris is fantastically disturbing,chilling and creepy as the ultimate manipulator and chief instigator of the most infamous series of murders in the last century. George Costigan as the policeman is also seen performing at the top of his game. I was worried about the way this extremely sensitive subject was going to be handled but it was perfectly done. Still shocking but not graphic apart from one scene of the murder of Eric Evans. That shocked me and I thought I was unshockable after a lifetime of watching all genres of movie. I never imagined that anyone would tackle this gruesome story for many more years but it is a story crying out to be dramatised. We never learn about why the couple did what they did but we do see the devastating effect it had on the people surrounding them. I do not think I will see anything which will stay with me for so long as this will.