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17 February 2008 (UK) moreTagline:
Tomorrow is nearer than you think...Plot Keywords:
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Downhill all the way moreCast
(Series Cast Summary - 4 of 50) | Benedict Cumberbatch | ... | Stephen Ezard (5 episodes, 2008) |
| Max Beesley | ... | Michael Ezard (5 episodes, 2008) |
 | Anamaria Marinca | ... | Yasim Anwar (5 episodes, 2008) |
| Eva Birthistle | ... | Elaeanor Brooke (5 episodes, 2008) |
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The police cars appearing in the movies are a Honda Accord and the new Honda Civic, borrowed from the Romanian Hondafan club. The owners seemed to like the resulting police cars. moreFAQ
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This five-part mini-series started superbly. A dramatic first episode, full of incident, laid out the main themes and built up the tension. The next two episodes maintained the tension, developing the near-future main storyline about a surveillance society and its impact on citizens. Robert Carlyle appeared (and disappeared), as threatening as only he can be and kept the excitement level high.
But then it faded away. The plots became too convoluted, with too many themes and unresolved or unnecessary twists – notably a scene where Carlyle creeps into a house and downloads a laptop. What was that about? And the final episode was so disappointing – it was as though the writer (Peter Berry) had only enough material for half an episode. So the pace slowed down, the increasingly unconvincing love story took over, with long, lingering and time-wasting glances, and the main surveillance theme sank under the weight of biological, genetic and political extra plots that led nowhere. It could have been a gripping thriller if it had been stripped down to a feature-length film but in the end it only left the feeling that five hours had been wasted. And this is despite excellent performances, particularly by Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert Carlyle and Geraldine James - the script could not match their talents.