TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

merylmatt While this mini series does have some plot holes, it is good enough I just watched the whole series in one day, hoping that there are more episodes to come. Fearless reminded me of True Detective - all of the characters are human, have flaws, wrinkles and warts. All struggle with their past and try to change the past to make the present tolerable. No one really wins, except the viewer, for the quality of the production. ***Spoiler alert*** If you can believe (as I do) that government agencies such as the CIA and British Intelligence communities are capable of evil doing, than you'd think that they'd simple order the murder of Emma sooner. Of course, there would be no episodes after the first, so there's that. Aside from that, I found this to be a very good thriller. Strong female leads, women who are intelligent, sometimes emotional, relentless and even ruthless. Well done entertainment, somewhat predictable, but a very good watch.

thecure-1 I usually love English series for their subtle-ness and rich characters. This show is the opposite. One stereotype after the other! ... They even have TWO scenes with a bus running someone over when the script has nowhere to go! ... The initial setup is one we have seen MILLIONS of times ago: No one believes an innocent man except the main character. The "crowd" condemns this innocent man and rallies against him because they have nothing better to do ... and 14 years after the fact ... Hate for the sake of hating ... The main character is perfect and flawless and can go against anyone and never gives up, because ... oh yes, she is "fearless" ... her diet consists of vodka and cigarettes, never sleeps but has endless energy (except for the bags under her eyes) ... Constant flashbacks to some sixties protests that nobody cares about... A connection between a teen age murder and the highest CIA and UK politicians as well as, yes, lets throw ISIS in there why not, nobody pays attention to realism anyhow ... SPOILER: The last episode plants this big red herring around a supposed attempt against the main character which never happens... it is just there to fool us the audience ... bad scripting ... This series tries so hard to be memorable and ends up being totally implausible and forgettable ...

markfranh When I watch a drama like this, I ask myself (and I hope others do too) whether or not the actions of the characters are credible. NOT, whether or not You or I would do or say the things they say; but rather whether or not it is credible that someone might do or say the things they say.The answer in the first painful hour and a half my wife and I sat through was all too often "no, a thousand times no." Kevin Russell's ex wife has remarried. Is it credible that the new husband is so supportive of his wife's years and years of trying to clear her ex-husband's name? Not really. Why would any man accept that their wife is more obsessed with their previous husband than with him? Is it credible that Kevin's son, who no doubt has been raised from birth to "know" that his father was innocent, is so openly hostile towards his father and his mother to the point that he joins a vigilante mob rallying against his father? Not particularly. Maybe, just maybe, but we didn't buy it.Is it credible that the victim's parents who are so incredibly hostile and confrontational (understandably) to Emma's efforts to re-open the case are suddenly willing later to almost calmly and voluntarily to even sit down with Emma to answer pointed questions about their dead daughter's behaviour? Absolutely not.Is it credible that when a second forensic exam arranged by Emma shows that the victim was initially murdered and buried at the air force base before then being dug up and reburied next to Kevin's shed are more or less glossed over despite it being pretty much unequivocal proof (or at least 'reasonable doubt') of Kevin's innocence? A thousand times no. Especially when one would have expected Helen to plaster this fact all over the media and doesn't. Why would someone murder her elsewhere and then shift the body to right beside Kevin's shed? Maybe, just maybe, to put the blame on Kevin? Would that possibly occur to the police if the findings were passed on to them as any defence attorney would normally do? I would hope so but not in this drama.Is it credible that the case would be sent for retrial rather than just dismissed once the confession is thrown out because of the obvious pressure and coercion when it would appear that there was no other significant evidence against Kevin other than he was seen talking to the girl on the night of her disappearance. Not really. Without the coerced confession, there doesn't seem to be any other evidence against Kevin. At least none that was given to the viewer.Yes, compromising photographs of the victim do appear but do the photographs really implicate Kevin when someone else confesses to having taken them? Not at all. It is not necessarily the case, as was implied in the plot, that he must have been disposing of evidence. The defence team says that if the photograph burning ever came out then Kevin is done for. Nonsense, when the defense can certainly argue that they were burnt in Kevin's shed because he found them so offensive especially after the photographer confesses to giving them to Kevin. Case closed.The implication also is that Kevin is so smart that he knew he had to dispose of the photographs because they might be used as evidence against him if they were found while at the same time being perfectly happy to dig up the body from the air force base and rebury it next to his shed where it would be eventually found. Would any jury buy that? Were we the viewing audience supposed to think that the defence wouldn't point out the inconsistency? Apparently.Is it credible that the original investigating detective just happens by some absolutely extraordinary coincidence to now be working for anti-terrorism and investigating Emma's only other client? Come off it! Coincidence is the refugee of the poor writer as far as I'm concerned.Was it credible .... Oh, I can't be bothered anymore.And on and on it goes. My blood pressure just kept going up scene after scene.My apologies for rambling a bit and perhaps not writing as well as I usually do but I'm still fuming about this rubbish and that we wasted an evening and a half watching it.Midway through episode 2, we'd had enough and put on something else.I would suggest others don't even start for the sake of your own health.

Tweekums Protagonist Emma Banville is a human rights lawyer who takes on the sort of cases most lawyers wouldn't touch with a barge pole. She already has the wife of a man the authorities believe is working with terrorists in Syria living in her house and now she has also taken on the case of Kevin Russell; a man who was convicted of killed a school girl fourteen years previously. Everybody seems to think he is guilty, even his son doesn't want anything to do with him but as Emma starts asking questions and looking at the evidence she starts to think that there is a connection between the girl's death and a nearby US air base and a secret meeting that took place on the eve on the invasion of Iraq. As she tries to investigate this link the powers that be on both sides of the Atlantic try to make sure she doesn't find out what really happened… what that is, is far from obvious.This ITV drama was rather impressive; I liked how an apparent miscarriage of justice in the case of the murder of a school girl could expand into a political drama with major players on both sides of the Atlantic. There are some good twists along the way, as well as a couple that are a little far-fetched but not enough to spoil my enjoyment. Helen McCrory does a great job as Banville and is able supported by a fine cast that includes Jamie Bamber as an up and coming Labour MP, Robin Weigert as the sinister Heather Myles and Wunmi Mosaku as the police officer originally in charge of the case. The final resolution does require some suspension of disbelief… would the powers that be really frame somebody for murder when they could have been just left another unsolved hit-and-run tragedy. Still that isn't really a problem as without that choice we'd have no story. Overall I'd certainly recommend this to anybody after a drama with political undertones.