TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

jogreaves-22782 I really enjoyed this series but wondered about this part of the script in series 2. Laughed rather too long. Not sure if it was meant to be funny. There are some negative comments on here but I really found it entertaining.

jc-osms A taut and exciting mini-series, the better for being condensed to just three as opposed to the more usual six, eight or ten episodes with Manchester-based detective John Simm out to prove his innocence after his wife and child are murdered at their home. Behind it all is a nefarious insider plot framing him for the deed, involving his so-called best friend (played by Craig "Dot Cotton" Parkinson) and a trusted senior colleague but after a spectacularly staged escape from a police van, Simm goes on the run to uncover the truth and clear his name.There was little that was original in the plotting, but with sharp, pacy direction and good acting throughout, while it may not have outdone say, "Line of Duty" or "Happy Valley", this was a superior TV thriller. As usual I found some of the background characterisations, particularly that of chasing cop Rosie Cavallero to be superfluous and surplus to requirements, but when it concentrated on Simm's character's relentless chase for the truth, it was very good indeed.Naturally he gets to run about a lot just one step ahead of the pursuing police pack, meaning hand-camera location shots a-plenty and the body-count grows wherever he goes but allowing the usual dramatic licence for coincidence, few actors can do haunted and hunted better than Simm or devious and deceptive like Parkinson. Some of the supporting cast I was less convinced by (especially a miscast Adrian Edmundson as a senior officer) but between these two, plus Cavallero and Anastasia Hille as his trusted former boss, this made for good viewing all round.

daveraybould It started out with a good plot line and a couple of twists but it went downhill fast.Marcus Farrow was supposed to be a decent police officer, smart and savvy.Then this smart officer went bumbling around Manchester leaving clues everywhere and more importantly leaving his finger prints at crime scenes?It was crazy that he grabbed the knife embedded in his wife's stomach then he left his prints at Tofer Lomax's house.It all became very sloppy overall and then in a 2 minute climax it ended.Very disappointing when it could have been so much better

Tweekums This three part ITV drama opens with a police can crashing and in the aftermath Marcus Farrow, one of the prisoners, escapes. We then flash back to before the events and learn that Farrow is a police officer who is investigating a body found on the moors… the body of somebody who was meant to have left the country many years before. It isn't long before he is being warned off the case and then he returns home to find his wife bleeding to death. He is arrested but protests his innocence. We then get to the point where the story started; he is on the run with his erstwhile colleagues looking for him. Outsider DI Susan Reinhardt leads the inquiry and she is initially fairly sure of Farrow's guilt but his behaviour suggests that he is carrying out his own investigation rather than trying to flee as one would expect a guilty man to do. Farrow does still have a couple of friends on the force that he trusts… and it is these people who pose the greatest danger to him!ITV have made quite a few solid crime dramas recently and this series is among the better ones. John Simm puts in a fine performance as Farrow and Rosie Cavaliero is equally good as Reinhardt. The rest of the cast are pretty good too; especially Struan Rodger who plays elderly villain Topher Lomax… who is threatening even though he is in a wheelchair and needs an oxygen cylinder. The story is gripping from start to finish and it wasn't until the final scene that we learn whether Farrow would be cleared or not. The tone is pretty dark for the most part as it constantly looks as though Farrow will be caught or those that he trusts are precisely the people he should be wary of. Overall this series is well worth watching if you enjoy crime dramas.