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I am not sure i have ever left 10 stars for anything, nor have I called anything a masterpiece. This is one of the most outstanding pieces of television drama I have every seen. The writing, acting and direction are flawless. The incredibly ambitious single shot scenes are so seamlessly executed that unless you notice it, you wouldn't even know. Above all, what makes this extraordinary, is that it never tries to tell you what to think or feel. You are like a voyeur, witnessing the agony of an agonising situation and as a parent, the horror of what you don't know and cant know. How do we protect our children and how can we know what is truly happening in their lives? There are no answers here, just the real world pain and anguish. Don't imagine that this is not incredibly painful to watch and it is hard not to be painfully affected by it, but please, be brave and watch it.

This is the perfect of adapting something outstanding and trying to "upscale" it and missing the point. This version is working SO hard to make the human point of duty v personal life, which quite frankly, is becoming a bit of a cliché these days, that it is becoming heavy and lumpen. The Bureau was brilliantly gripping but not preachy. It was tense and nuanced but never lumpy. This cannot match it. The cast is fab. It is great to see Richard Gere really inhabiting his white haired gravitas. Jeffrey Wright it a good actor but so one note in this that is becoming tedious (ok, I've only watched two episodes). The problem is that Michael Fassbender is so dry and stiff while Matthieu Kassovitz was intriguing and rich. I am really struggling to sit through a whole episode at a time. Meh. I was so looking forward to this.

Unashamedly inspired by Tarantino and Spaghetti westerns this is a total, unashamed, ultra violent, cracking good fun movie. Some great characters: the good guys are really good, the villains are hyper villainous and the action is really well executed.

I genuinely didn't expect this to be as much fun as it was.

How many ways can one kill a Nazi? Well this movie invents some I hadn't thought of before but it was all a blood soaked romp.

The acting is also really rather good. The two main protagonists are super sympathetic, although Elsa is much more rounded than Heinrich but it doesn't matter.

Watch it if you are in the mood for this kind of movie.