Mcthorpe

Yes it is a great film I just felt slightly cheated. The trailers and the hype promised that this would answer a lot of the questions put forward in the past 5 years and give us a lot more. OK it gave us those new questions but did it really tell us that much. The aliens were another thing. For five years we have been kept in the dark. Never really seeing any aliens except in the shadows. Previously everything we had seen could have been the government but now we know they do exist. The special effects were excellent but as a fan of the show I was slightly disappointed by the plot.

This film was probably better if viewed when it is not one a.m. in the morning but the BBC in their wisdom decided to relegate a classy film like this to the slot around midnight. In fact if it had not been on straight after Highlander I probably would not have watched it. If I hadn't I would have missed a treat. Tommy Lee Jones was at his brilliant best as the private dick hired to find a man's dead wife. I did miss a bit in the middle which did not help but I was a little confused for quite a while about who was and who was not dead. Maybe that was the entire point of the film. But the film does carry an important message "The dead can't lie. It's something I've learnt."