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There were some interesting differences to the first Bourne film and they kept the interest level high.

The 'film' has a good casting on the whole and enough twists to try to keep the viewer guessing.

Merging the individual episodes into one worked for me.

I know nothing about the XIII stories but will look out for associated films.

It was good to get comfy and have a 3 hour session watching an entertaining film.

If there was a sticking point, it was that Lucinda Davis's voice was not clear or powerful enough for her role. I probably understood less than a quarter of what she said.

Overall though, a really good view.

A most boring, contrived film.

So many snippets of action with no continuity.

Had all the usual relationship ups and downs but failed to present a viable story.

Must have been made to get Celia Imrie and Bill Patterson some money.

Watched over 2 evenings and just knew that I was going to miss it after I got to the end. Both young and old Beths were interesting characters and they were played really well. Given that it was all about chess, the way that the background and games were covered was perfect. This was definitely a single series story - and that's a shame.

Great story line Great acting Great characters A really enjoyable piece of entertainment.

Made a change to watch a half-decent film given the poor offerings there have been during the pandemic. OK, there were parts where questions like "Why did't he ..." and "Shouldn't she have ...." and sections that had to be contrived to keep the story going but overall it had enough events and suspense to hold the viewers attention. However, it only needed one extra sentence in the father's message to his daughter and the whole story would have been simplified and the film would have only lasted 20 minutes

... and I do not mean the asteroid.

This film is so bad, so amateurish, so ridiculous that it deserves to have no more said about it.

I really wanted to stop watching it but, because the actual Dickens' story is so good, I stayed with it to the end.

Left me with a mixture of feelings.

Unquestionably different presentation.

Excellent visual locations and scenery.

Good acting and, in the main, some interesting characters.

Strange casting though and not a lot of humour.

Waited in vain to hear " Barkis is willin' ".

It portrayed enough of Dickens' story to work for me but not in a format that I would watch again.

Watched up to ep4.

As with so many shows, started with a great Ep 1.

Ep 2 started to drift and it carried on downhill from there.

And now, don't where it is going or why. In fact, don't care.

Uninteresting, ridiculous, miserable and so, so slow.

And when a clever technician achieves the impossible - she is sacked!

That's it. No more for me.

After 5 minutes of ear-assaulting noise (music? and squawarking) I should have given up. But I didn't, I thought it would calm down and start to entertain. I was so wrong. Neary every sentence contained the F word and everything about every scene was excruciatingly unenjoyable. Lasted about 30 minutes and then got on with my life.

Such a slow, boring storyline that could easily have been compacted into a single 1 hour program.

I really expected the BBC to produce a great version of this science fiction classic and so looked forward to watching it.

What a disappointment it turns out to be.

Episode 1 was mediocre and I did not get the reason for the time shifts. Episode 2 was mainly a padding fill-in and very frustrating. Episode 3 is an unknown as I am not interested in the outcome of the boring characters.

It is typical these days to boost the role and importance of women in thrillers but this was beyond belief. The unblievable excuse for a husband spends more time staring into space than providing any ideas and direction. Until, that is, he determines that he can improve the odds of two against one. Luckily his female partner takes control and issues the orders.

My advise is to stick with the book. Have a read and visualise the action yourself.

An interesting and worrying concept.

Hadn't bin-watched anything for a while but this series got me hooked.

The first 3 episodes had my full attention but episode 4 started to drag, so I left it there and went to bed at 2am.

Was still thinking about the story-line when I got up so settled down to watch the other 2 episodes.

The fifth was a bit of a hotch-potch and the last was like a lot of films these days - suffered from poor winding up of the loose ends. Well most of them. There were still one or two that didn't get covered.

All in all a good show but could have done better.

This film is an insult to intelligence. That's all I wanted to say but the review panel says it's 'too short'. So I'll add that for 30-40 minutes endured a film that was cringingly awful.

Surprised that quite a few A movie actors turned up for this B level movie. What was in their minds I fail to see - unless it was just the money. The story was poor and predictable, the roles were shallow and the gun fights were the worst. Writing this has made me realise that I need to reduce the rating from 4 to 3.

The 1st episode caught my attention and intrigued me. The 2nd caused my interest to decrease. The 3rd went so downhill that I have given up.

This series should never have seen the light of day. The kindest thing to do would be to consign it to the rubbish pile now, before it wastes the lives of any new viewers. I have no idea what the people that were involved in the making were thinking. They must all be so desperate.

It is about time that IMDb started showing the number of reviews each reviewer has contributed. The number of 'one-offs' for this, all stating what a great 10/10 film this is, shows that more needs to be done to stop the rest of us wasting out time. This film lost my interest in the first 5 minutes.

I watched for 55 minutes or so, then got on with my life. Couldn't stand the hyper-speed talking and OTT problem scenes but assumed the story would turn a corner. Along came Mum - but no change - still ridiculous over-acting and ridiculous situations. I usually watch to the end of a film, hoping to be surprised by a twist or some sort of improvement, but there was no way I could with this ludicrous offering. I may have missed a surprise improvement but just couldn't face the wait.

Made a change to watch a film that was pure escapism. OK it was a sad start, violent action and unusual end - but I knew it wasn't a documentary ! It was a good ol' revenge film and I was on her side all the way. Well worth watching.

As soon as the first episode started I turned off the opening noise - can't call it music.

When I thought that the scenes would have normal sound I switched it back on.

It took a while for me to realise that this show, along with some other latest series, are now seen as a chance to give work to musicians.

The noise was incessant and so unnecessary.

When the episode finished the silence from the TV was magnificent.

I felt my whole body relax and realised that it was the noise, not the Magnum adventure, that had made me uptight.

The story line was weak and, apart from the main characters, the 'extras' were the most wooden support cast that I can remember encountering.

So, I guess that's another 'new' series that I will not be wasting my life on.

There was a battle between the speaking and the music and the music won! Enjoyed the story line but really had to strain to catch all the conversation. Shame.

UPD, end of 1st series Enjoyed it overall but the 'Rookie' could have had a more dynamic part to play.

Despite all the noise, bangs and car tyre screeching, I fell asleep after half hour. Woke up after an hour and was so bored that I stopped watching. How many more 'samey' movies like this can they make? Had no interest in the characters and the 'mission' had nothing new to offer. This is a typical 'theme milking' job.

This note contains NO spoilers because I don't know what it was about.

Oh my. Did I really spend time watching his pathetic excuse for entertainment? Yes, unfortunately. This was a pointless, badly dialogued, badly acted, mishmash of a film.

It was so incredibly bad I don't know how I have found so much to write about !

Great book. The 1966 film version was good for it's time. This version was weak, boring and failed to explain the background to events. Ray Bradbury would have held his head in his hands and cried at this insult to his work.

With the cast list for this series I expected something special. Instead we got staccato talking, often unintelligible and seldom more than a clipped sentence. Poor camera work, but that is the norm these days, and so many different people and scenarios were covered that I doubt that I will remember half the details next week - assuming I can be bothered to try a second episode. And why has this 'Hey' greeting crept in? Can't we do anything in this country without mimicking the Americans?