Depressingly Over-rated

Rating: 1/10 (18 January 2012)

I am 50 and I had heard very good things about this film so I watched it. I can only say that perhaps today's audiences are easy to please. It was tripe from beginning to end. I'm a big fan of the TV series but tried to watch this film with an open mind and without making comparisons. It was just SO bad. The TV episodes were long and drawn out but at the same time they were genius. This film is only a few hours long but feels much longer without the genius. Sad, sad, sad. I just can't understand how it is getting such good reports. The portakabin offices of The Circus should have been my first clue. Totally unbelievable. I was 12 in 1973 and so the next clue should have been the complete absence of any kind of believable London street scenes. All the traffic was shot in close-up and it was almost all comprised of London Routemasters and Taxis. Don't waste your time. This is a film that ought not to have been made. The acting is wooden and even the cinematography isn't up to par which is odd considering that this is often what makes a remake worth watching. I can only postulate that any good review that you might read of this film on IMDb (and there are sadly many of them) has been written by a spotty 18-yr-old who doesn't know he's born.