This had potential. Incredible cast who've all done better.
But here asked to work miracles with a script dashed off for an election year.
The story it aspires to is done better by 'The Day after Tomorrow' and 'The Way we live now.' Same themes but 'the way' can never achieve the escape velocity needed to do the same.
Does Michael Sheen really believe such anti Welsh sentiment is just under the surface of every English person? Why are all the English all portrayed as truly awful people? Some of whom find out about the chaos next door when their swingers party can't get porn but only a Carry On film.
Seriously, what the hell was even that supposed to be?
The welshfinder?
This is pantomime.
Once BBC drama was powerful acting. Work which stands the test of time.
And this US movie trope of 'every body must have huge emotional outbursts and arguments must have everyone shouting incoherently at once.' These scenes do not convey emotion. They convey cringe.
It probably is there to appeal to a US market?
And how on earth did Adam Curtis debase himself with this absurdity?
The best characters. The MP and the Chinese steel plant owner. They are given the dignity of being filmed walking away.
But here asked to work miracles with a script dashed off for an election year.
The story it aspires to is done better by 'The Day after Tomorrow' and 'The Way we live now.' Same themes but 'the way' can never achieve the escape velocity needed to do the same.
Does Michael Sheen really believe such anti Welsh sentiment is just under the surface of every English person? Why are all the English all portrayed as truly awful people? Some of whom find out about the chaos next door when their swingers party can't get porn but only a Carry On film.
Seriously, what the hell was even that supposed to be?
The welshfinder?
This is pantomime.
Once BBC drama was powerful acting. Work which stands the test of time.
And this US movie trope of 'every body must have huge emotional outbursts and arguments must have everyone shouting incoherently at once.' These scenes do not convey emotion. They convey cringe.
It probably is there to appeal to a US market?
And how on earth did Adam Curtis debase himself with this absurdity?
The best characters. The MP and the Chinese steel plant owner. They are given the dignity of being filmed walking away.