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Originally Posted by Immersion
Aha, yeah I was going to mention those two. I was surprised Red Riding didn't get a UK Blu-ray release, and it was only released in USA and Canada. I will have to pick that up. Does anyone know if they have ruled out a UK release completely?
Shadow Line seems very good; I watched the first episode last week, and thought it was excellent. But I decided to hold out on watching the rest, until the Blu-ray of that is released in early July, which I definitely plan to buy  |
While I enjoyed it Shadow Line was flawed, it had some great acting from the likes of Christopher Eccleston & Chiwetel Ejiofor and the first 4 episodes were very strong but the remaining episodes it seemed the very powerful threads paticularly Ecccleston's Joseph coming to terms with his Wife's (Lesley Sharp) altzheimers and Ejiofor's Jonah and his Wife's struggle to have a child jarred with the fantastical conspiracy angle that got out of hand and got more ridiculous as it went on, the opening sequence with the 2 cops examining the drug dealers body in the back of the car was very impressive and set the tone. Also the Bourne like chase sequence in the 2nd episode was promising. Once Stephen Rea's shadowy Gatehouse became more dominant things started to veer into 24 territory, which is fine but I felt it needed to be one or the other and Shadow line wanted it's cake and to eat it.
Rafe Spall's Jay was either chilling or borrowing from range of David Walliam's characters in Little Britain, I'm really not sure but the moments he appeared, my wife and I started to chuckle and once the Walliams connection was made it was hard to take him seriously. I think Paul Abbott's masterful State of Play was much better and while thrilling and engrossing seemed more grounded and never got into the ludicrous territory that SL did, one character in paticular seem rather servicable and it isn't till the climax you realise why they are there, could have done with more fleshing out to not seem just like some plot device.
Some British critics have said they aren't buying and it all seems unrealistic and fantastical, this I sort of agree with, I'm quite happy to suspend disbelief but this should of either been a compelling drama thriller or an OTT conspiracy thriller ala Jack Bauer in the end the 2 just don't mix and it all comes across as an uncomfortable mish mash, worth catching but it doesn't really pay off with the promise the first few episodes promise. I was considering buying the Blu on the strength of it's beginning but catching it as a whole I can't see myself wanting to revisit this like I did State.
Yes I agree The Red Riding Trilogy seeing it's a Brit production should be available on Blu and not just some exclusive region A distributor, it's about time this country got it'a act together releasing it's own output and while they are at it Hunger need a HD release as well.
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