Product: The Sandbaggers Collection Set 2 (1999)
Rating: 5.0
HIGH QUALITY MAINTAINED!!!
The high quality of Sandbaggers 1 is totally maintained in Sandbaggers 2. The acting is superb, the director holds a tight rein with his cast and knows how to work with the story, and the screenwriter continues to bedazzle (he will depart us in the next series (3) when he mysteriously disappears with pilot and plane over the wilds of Alaska, although 3 of the episodes will still have his artistry).I do not know if Roy Marsden received any award for this series, but he certainly should have. I can't think of a more apt word to describe his performance than "Perfect." And I do not use that word loosely.And so we get to know his character, Neil Burnside, better and better. And we find that here is a man who will sacrifice anything in life, including those he loves most and his own character as a human being (and one does not doubt that even his own life may be added to this list) for his mission, a free world which at that time was threatened by the Soviets. And Willie Cane, excellently played by Ray Lonnen, stays very close in his shadow. Are these men extreme idealists (even heroes), or do they share a brutal psychopathology? Perhaps both? It is for the viewer to surmise.So hold on to your living room chair, and keep a strong stomach, especially during the first episode, and the remaining episodes will continue to grasp your attention unto the final one, the most ironic of all of them. It's worth the ride to see one of the finest espionage series of all time.