Seems my fears were correct then!
I'll pencil it in as one to watch when I can't find anything else on. 🙂
Found it unwatchable really. Enjoyed the book as an audiobook but as mentioned above it was just too compressed to really follow what was happening or allow characters to develop. I think I lasted about a third of the way through.
Just watching it at the cinema now. Starting in a few minutes.
My wife's friend said she saw it and thought it "lumpy". She recommended we sit on the back row and spend the time snogging in the dark
My wife's friend said she saw it and thought it "lumpy". She recommended we sit on the back row and spend the time snogging in the dark
That sounds like a great idea. Don't let your wife find out though.
Perfectly acceptable.
Read the books. Saw the film tonight. Agree that Brosnan was woefully miscast. Others were pretty good. Overall I felt it suffered from having to cut so much and taking a chainsaw to lots of the plot. Oversimplified everything (understandable) and made Bogdan into the bad guy, which is unforgivable. Distinctly underwhelmed and would have been better as a series I guess
My wife's friend said she saw it and thought it "lumpy". She recommended we sit on the back row and spend the time snogging in the dark
That sounds like a great idea. Don't let your wife find out though.
Deserving of recognition. Chapeau
Enough plot holes to bury several more bodies in.
TTMC ..... literary/cinematic equivalent of Robson and Jerome.
Cosy content, I get it and in many ways I'm all for it, I really don't like violence as I mature.
But does cosy really have to mean dumbed down to this extent?
Can joyful not also be clever ??
Mackenzie Crook where are you ??
Watched it last night at my daughter's request. Have forgotten it already.
Was Daniel Mays padded up for that?
One word - Saccharine. Not really worthy of the actors within in.
Mackenzie Crook where are you ??
Working on this, coming later this year; https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/8363/new-mackenzie-crook-bbc-comedy-small-prophets/
One word - Saccharine. Not really worthy of the actors within in.
Did you expect more? The books are an exercise in saccharine crime fiction.
Did you expect more?
I didn't expect anything, I watched it with no prior knowledge of the books and that was my one word review.
Just like the book, it was lightweight. Wife enjoyed it - I though it plodded along with nothing much happening
It wasn't meant to be taken seriously. Pleasant, lightweight entertainment, no expectations of procedural correctness so nothing to think about
No views on Mr Brosnan’s “unusual” accent? At least he didn’t sing…
This was a redeeming feature and everyone in it seemed to enjoy themselves
Was Daniel Mays padded up
yes, he was
I thought it was pretty poor but still reasonably watchable, I've listened to all the audiobooks whilst driving so have a vision in my head which this missed by miles.
There were a few specific niggles, the casting wasn't right, particularly Bronson but also the actor who played Bogdan. Also, Bogdan got proper stitched up, presumably he'll be cleared in the sequel otherwise there'll be a lot of re-writing going on.
The worst thing for me though was that everything was just a bit overdone. The home was way beyond what the books suggest, the MI6 links in the book are much more subtle, the "bad cop" was too stereotyped etc. I'm not saying the books are exactly gritty by any means but they're definitely less "cartoony" then this.
It's what puts me off a lot of current tv/film content, everything's too glossy, played for laughs and full of nods, references, homages and in-jokes.
The books have a successful enough vibe that they obviously thought it worth making a film, why they decided to throw that vibe away is anyone's guess.
I'm surprised people are saying the retirement village was more posh than they expected from the books. There's a similar looking one outside Matlock in a former private school (Muffin Man will know it) and that is exactly how I imagined it from the book. The book also indicated that residents were financially well off. Maybe it's just our personal reference points.
Be dull if we all thought the same though.
Dear god! I thought this kind of insufferably twee rubbish was safely self-contained in the literal graveyard slot of 8 o clock on a Sunday night on BBC 1, where it can be easily avoided.
i endured 30 minutes of it and concluded I’d rather remove my own kidneys with a teaspoon than watch the rest. Mrs Binners fully concurred
Well I really enjoyed it! Not much thinking required, feels like in this day and age stuff like that is quite a pleasant escape.
Watchable light fluff that made no attempt to take itself seriously. Won't win any awards for original thinking and all the big names have produced far better but compared to some of the poorly produced fetid dingoes kidneys on Netflix / Prime it was a bit of easy and inoffensive telly.
watched it - ending was terrible. Did anyone else notice Bogdan was the bully in Inbetweeners?
