After witnessing the brutal murder of his friend and partner, a Liverpool policeman experiences a painful sense of guilt and a fierce desire to take revenge on the scum.
The authors of this police mini-series focus not on forensic procedures and official conflicts, but on personality, not on how experienced detectives solve puzzling crimes and figure out the villain, but on how a person can behave under the influence of unusually tragic circumstances. Despite the small script stretches for the sake of the most spectacular and intriguing plot development, the impression of complete authenticity of everything that happens remains.
It was delivered, filmed and mounted very well. Not a bad picture, great casting. The characters are real, detailed and convincing, especially the negative ones. And the vile bastard performed by Stephen Graham came out just extremely naturally. The central character, although he always strives to do the right thing, is also lively, ambiguous and unstable. It's interesting how precisely his condition is emphasized by a quote from a book he reads aloud in each episode.
It turned out to be a tense, exciting, intelligent, sad, gloomy, very dramatic, but emotionally restrained and, in general, a fairly realistic story about a depressing turning point in the life of the main character, albeit not perfect, but certainly positive initially.
Language. They speak well, authentically and not very simply, a lot of slang, plus accents. I recommend subtitles.
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2The authors of this police mini-series focus not on forensic procedures and official conflicts, but on personality, not on how experienced detectives solve puzzling crimes and figure out the villain, but on how a person can behave under the influence of unusually tragic circumstances. Despite the small script stretches for the sake of the most spectacular and intriguing plot development, the impression of complete authenticity of everything that happens remains.
It was delivered, filmed and mounted very well. Not a bad picture, great casting. The characters are real, detailed and convincing, especially the negative ones. And the vile bastard performed by Stephen Graham came out just extremely naturally. The central character, although he always strives to do the right thing, is also lively, ambiguous and unstable. It's interesting how precisely his condition is emphasized by a quote from a book he reads aloud in each episode.
It turned out to be a tense, exciting, intelligent, sad, gloomy, very dramatic, but emotionally restrained and, in general, a fairly realistic story about a depressing turning point in the life of the main character, albeit not perfect, but certainly positive initially.
Language. They speak well, authentically and not very simply, a lot of slang, plus accents. I recommend subtitles.