Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Micitype Pretty Good

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

kitellis-98121 This was a thoroughly gripping and unusual series, with good writing; an intriguing multi-strand storyline; well-drawn characters played by a talented cast of well-known British actors; and a few minor (and mostly unexpected) twists.Some of the individual story threads stretch credibility a little thin, if you analyse too much while watching. Additionally, the presence of so many "dodgy" people with secrets all being on the same section of road at the same time, and then to all be involved in the same collision is certainly a stretch. But if you can accept or ignore the unlikeliness of the situation, the drama that unfolds from it makes for some pretty good television.There is also a bizarre romance shoe-horned into the series, in the form of two people loosely connected with the collision: one with a dislocated shoulder, the other a helpful bystander. Their storyline runs parallel to the main "investigation" and though initiated by the original incident, is not in any other way a part of the main arc. It is rather sweet and pleasant to watch the two strangers fall in love, and they are beautifully played by both actors. But their story fits somewhat uncomfortably into the rest of the series, as it is essentially not relevant to the plot.Each individual storyline is explored as part of the main investigative arc, and there are some surprises along the way, but everything is designed to lead in the direction of an ultimate conclusion: what caused the crash. And that is where both the writing and the directing become somewhat clumsy and unsubtle.If you want to be surprised by the "big reveal" of the culprit that caused the collision, you'll have to switch your brain off right from the start, and keep it switched off throughout. Because for reasons of, I assume, an artistic nature, the writer and director choose to foreshadow the ultimate reveal throughout the entire season, repeatedly and unsubtly, making it almost impossible not to know what happened long before the investigation is concluded. And that's a real shame, because it could have been a fabulous twist if it had arrived without all the signposting.But despite that, it was gripping and enjoyable enough for me to watch it twice, and I will doubtless be watching it again.

blanche-2 Collision, from across the pond, was apparently a five-hour miniseries, cut to just over three for DVD. It stars Douglas Henshall, Lucy Griffiths, Kate Ashfield, Philip Davis, Sylvia Syms, Paul McGann, and Matt Ryan.It's a sort of Bridge of San Luis Rey with vehicles. John Tolin (Henshall) is a police detective who has had some sadness in his life, though we're not sure what when the story begins. He has a wheelchair-bound daughter (Jo Woodcock) about to go to college and no wife. He agrees to investigate a multi-car collision on the A12 highway which killed three people. He and another investigator (Kate Ashfield) work together in spite of having been involved in a relationship that ended badly.The investigation leads to more questions than it answers. Tolin delves into the lives of the people involved and finds corporate espionage, an unexplained death, smuggling, and someone living under an alias; one person, driving an antiques van, has disappeared. After the accident, there is a murder and another death, and a married man seemingly falls for a younger woman he met as a direct result of the accident.Low-key, compelling drama that will keep you guessing.

winopaul I saw the cut-down 2-hour USA version. This was only part 1 and I feel deeply betrayed by PBS for not telling me it was two parts or running them back-to-back.Ya know how everyone went all squishy when Quentin Tarantino chopped up the time-line in Pulp Fiction? And you know how every episode of Law and Order Criminal Intent starts with 5 minutes of completely incoherent and unrelated action? OK, now do both for 42 minutes. Then, just as you consider assaulting the writer's hands with a garden implement so he never types again, finally, finally, the collision. That was the name of this thing in the 2-hour version, probably named such in the hope that a few intrepid viewers would hang on to the 42 minute mark.In the re-cut they would put helpful captions like "The day before the collision". That helped a bit. Watching now I see the one nondescript white guy gave the 500 pounds to the other nondescript white guy who I at least realize was driving the truck. The first guy might be the same guy who paid for memory stick files from the secretary, not sure. Jesus people, put some Asians and Hispanics in the cast so we can tell characters apart.(Spoiler) Oh gosh, another character killed off, and only 15 minutes to go. This might be a part-1 part-2, 4 hours of misery instead of 2 hours. Help me, help me. Ohhhhh crap, first twist, what's in the truck, and yeah, it ends in the middle. Another 2 hours to go. Give me that garden implement. I better be able to find this on YouTube. Then again, I may as well watch a well-written procedural instead of the second half of this.It would be fun to get the 5-hour brit version, rip it to avi, and re-edit this thing into an hour or two. Do the whole thing from the point of view of the detective. Keep his chronology in order and flashback as needed. Better yet would be to do some reshoots. Then you could start out with the detective and his daughter on the couch. When she insist on going to college in Edinburgh, he could explain that all the Edinburgh boys like anal sex, from growing up with sheep in the Scottish highlands. Four or five minutes of a touching father-daughter talk on the taboos, trade-offs and virtues of anal, and then cut to the crash. You could get both sex and violence in before the first commercial break.The touching personal scene would get us all pulling for the detective right from the start, and the contrast and similitude between anal sex and a car crash would probably win the Palme d'Or at Cannes.

albertk1 Although I enjoyed the show, I did not understand where Tolin got the digital version of the incriminating information on the chemical company. Did anyone else catch that? Also, in retrospect, I gather from the final "what might have been" sequence, that Jane had taken an unsuccessful swat at the wasp at the beginning of the series. But that was not memorable and it would have helped if that had been included among the many flashbacks. Some other issues were unresolved: (1) Did Brian get arrested for murdering his mother-in-law? The police still wanted to see him and there were some suspicious findings regarding how he handled the car. (2) Was the head of the chemical company arrested for involvement in his employees murder or genocide in East Africa? Again there was some evidence.It seemed not only heartless, but bad policing for Tolin to have ignored the plea of the phony James Taylor. Acting on his plea could have led the police to the murderers of Karen Donnelly.