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Ian Fleming (Dominic Cooper) is a disappointing playboy with a wealthy and well connected family. His brother is the shining star of his mother. He has a great love Muriel Wright (Annabelle Wallis), and a love affair with the married Ann O'Neill (Lara Pulver). His boss is Real Admiral John Godfrey (Samuel West), and assistant Second Officer Monday (Anna Chancellor).

Those who complain about the authenticity really miss the point of the series. His actual career is probably lost forever to time and state secrets. This is a marrying of Ian Fleming and James Bond. Quite frankly, I don't know why nobody has made feature movies about a semi-fictionalized Ian Fleming before. It's a great way to do a Bond movie while skirting the copyright. And you can use Fleming's name right up top maybe even 'The Man who would be Bond'.

This one does it as well as it can be done on TV. The action could be bigger. Dominic Cooper is a bratty playboy writer who turns into a brilliant intelligence officer struggling against the system. All the James Bond ideas are there intermingled with the real Ian Fleming. That's the charming part of this series.

In the great tradition of excellent, professionally made British TV Series...

How good, how refreshing! Finally a production which entertains, informs and intrigues at the same time! Everything about this show is well done, the script (above all), the direction, the acting, the cinematography, the sound... There is absolutely nothing to complain about. It is interesting, the dialog (finally) is engaging, it is wonderful to hear the English language spoken so beautifully. Yes, it does not completely conform to historical fact, it has been a little dramatized for entertainment purposes, but who cares? It is and remains an excellent production.

I am certain Fleming would have loved this! Well done to all!

This is a quote excellent four part story which looks at the life of Ian Fleming, his wartime career, the time before he became famous for James Bond.

Fleming is portrayed as a Bond life character he, he guns down Nazis, takes up secret missions, and certainly puts it about.

It's a very raunchy drama, Fleming was certainly a man for the ladies. Cooper cuts a dashing figure as Fleming, you can't help but see flashes of Bond. Laura Pulver is wonderful as Ann, they make a great duo.

A wonderful, dazzling production, it looks amazing, smart costumes, great sets, they didn't go overboard with special effects thankfully.

Well worth a watch, 8/10.

From the very beginning, we're gently nudged towards the idea that the inspiration to Ian Fleming for James Bond was... Fleming himself. As fictional as that may be, and there are reasons to appreciate it for the entertainment value at least, young Fleming's routine gets old really really fast. The boozing, womanizing, good-for-nothing, but ultimately lovable scoundrel has been portrayed in many a production before. Nothing bad about Dominic Cooper's performance, and he does radiate a certain charm, but really... there's only so much dickish behavior one's charm can excuse.

Ultimately, I got bored by Fleming's antics and the repeated, sanitized sex scenes. The central plot never grasped me and frankly, I ended up not caring particularly much for any of the characters - least of all the titular one.

It's not a bad product per se. But not a very good one either.

Dominic Cooper should be on the British honors list one day. He was terrific in his role as Ian Fleming, a British playboy who became a British spy during World War II. Ian Fleming was the author of the James Bond super spy novels. He had lived an interesting life himself. The four part series included Fleming's own playboy relationships with women bordering misogynistic. Lesley Manville was perfect as his mother. Anna Chancellor was terrific as the Officer Monday who would later be characterized as Miss Moneypenny. While the four part series was quite entertaining, you didn't want it to end too.

This four part series is intended to set the stage for Fleming's post-war life as a novelist and chronicler of enviable male conquests of both the international and romantic sort. When not devising ways to bring England's enemies to their knees, Fleming was busy cavorting with women of the upper class, some of whom he loved, and one of whom killed herself for love.

Hard to look away. If the plots were not enough, the settings and cinematography are breathtaking, whether the scenes be underwater, in the Alps, in the war torn woods,or within exquisite mansions.

All around it would be hard to go wrong with this as it offers something for everyone.

Rarely TV serials adopt the idea of 'Art-house' production, and this is one of them. Another gem from the BBC production. Story of the creator of 007 who himself is a legend in thus arena, perhaps one of the most influential one. At first glance I thought it contains style over substance but in time everything worked out just fine ! This is not just another espionage story of WWII, rather the script mingled the personal and professional life of Fleming brilliantly. Dominic Cooper was an excellent choice, he can play the hard-boiled spoiled brat quite fascinatingly, we all have seen it in 'The Devil's Double'. Lara Pulver was naturally brilliant in the seductive dominatrix role as usual. Only if they could let the 'blond Muriel' stay a bit longer !

Its not easy to bring-up the story of someone with so many 'issues' meticulously, but they tried and didn't fail ! Its no hardcore action flick like 007, rather vintage flavoured of WWII, the set decoration was quite believable. And most of all, this series is 'Hot', and hot means 'Haught' ! Waiting for the final instalment !

"Fleming" this is unarguably a piece of fiction with a few bits of truth. "The Man Who Never Was" featured in this program is Non Fiction by author Ewen Montagu. "Fleming" is a brilliant mini-series with a stellar cast but please be advised that it is only very loosely based on his life story. How do we know this? Well here is the evidence for this statement. The last episode of the mini-series (which was probably the best one) features the true story of "The Man Who Never Was" a book famously written by The Hon. Ewen Montagu C.B.E. D.L. Q.C.) It is the true story about a dead man's body clothed in the uniform of a British senior officer with an attaché case handcuffed to it. In the attaché case were planted bogus secret documents outlining bogus plans for the 1944 Allied landings in Europe. This was left by a British submarine off the coast of Spain in a place where it was know it would be swept ashore and reported to a very active German spy network working in the area, based there to spy on the British naval dockyards at Gibraltar. The actress Lara Pulver who plays his then girlfriend is probably the most beautiful woman we have ever seen on the screen c 2014 and will probably look like she does in this film for ever.igw

I find it fascinating that much of the criticism in other reviews is based on the idea that James Bond wasn't based on Fleming. A fictional character by its very nature has its roots in more than one place. I've no idea how Fleming's war exploits compare to the novels, but it's quite clear that James Bond's personal behaviors, tastes, preferences, and prejudices are based on Fleming's. His wife made direct reference to this in the series opening and these similarities are well documented in analysis of the novels. Fleming wasn't Bond, nor were any of the others that have been posited as his inspiration. Bond is an amalgam of many, and Fleming himself was certainly one of them.

A four-part mini-series about James Bond author Ian Fleming. Based on true events how his work during WW2 formed the basis for his later novels. Booze, beautiful women, money, casino's, secret missions, ... its all in this mini-series. In a sense it is truely his life during WW2, which resulted in the inspiration for his later Bond novels.

This mini-series also shows how the "30 Assault Unit" was Fleming's initiative, like the famous way in which the Germans were fooled in believing the Allied Forces would invade Greece instead of Sicily. This by using a dead body that was rigged with false intelligence.

It also shows the complex relationship that Fleming had with women, including his own mother. We also get an idea how Fleming came to know his later wife Ann O'Neill.

Excellent acting and stunning scenes make this mini-series a very attractive watch. It really gives the viewer an idea how high-society London was during the 1940's war years.

Overall, this show scores 7.5/10, thereby just making it an IMDb rating of 8 stars.

No real plots, no real characters; just a cad getting his way in everything, because a cad can get his way with anything if he has a team of fiction writers on his side. Series is full of contrived, cliche, paper-thin vignettes in which Fleming is supposedly charming and witty, yet instead of showing us how this might be, the lazy writers simply tell us by having everything come up aces.

A note for those of you who would be Bond: grabbing a woman in a hallway, refusing to let her pass and forcing yourself on her while saying "tell me you don't want this" won't get you the girl. It will only get you an indictment.

And wow boring. I'm amazed by all these positive reviews. This is shallow, uninteresting tripe. Nice cinematography captures definite period feel, but, wow, who cares. BORING. Apart from the lead a poor use of talented people.

A reviewer on another site said (and I agree wholeheartedly), 'If you're watching this because you think it's about the origins of James Bond, think again. As Mr. Fleming would tell you, the prototype for Mr. Bond was actually Sydney Reilly, a real life spy that nearly usurped Lenin. Probably the best dramatization of Reilly is called, "Reilly: Ace of Spies," and stars Sam Neill. Highly recommended.'

"Reilly: Ace of Spies" is riveting. This is not.

I'm back in 2018 feeling VERY bad about denigrating the lead since I've now become totally enamored of him as Jesse Custer in the fabulous 'Preacher.'

Just sayin' . . .

Gotta keep that karma in balance . . .

More money spent on props than decent filmmaking. For once it's easy to give a recommendation - don't.

The characters are about as flat as they come.

Envision an American soap from the early eighties, spend a lot more money on the scenery and you should be pretty close to the end result.

I cant believe people were giving this series a rating five or above. Poor story line, poor characters the costumes and some of the period building etc were well done the rest was a load of rubbish. Save your money, your time and watch something.

Firstly, the good bits: the sets and the buildings and all of the props and costumes are quite simply wonderful and really evoke the era.

However, the dialogue is absolutely dreadful and the characters all seem to be cliched stereotypes with no depth.

The biggest distraction, possibly worse than the grating dialogue is the smoking in nearly every scene. Once you have noticed this you cannot insee it and it really distracts from the flow of the program. I can only think that there was a significant amount of money changed hands from the cigarette lobby Because it really the detracts from the overall feel of the program.

Ultimately, the program leaves you feeling flat because it is actually quite boring. You don't actually feel any empathy for the characters as they are universally either horrible or superficial and insubstantial.opportunity wasted.