gerardmartin77

As a previous writer commented this mediocre drama just isn't in the same league as Kin or Love/Hate. I ended up watching all 8 episodes just to see if it got any better ....it didn't.

It's an un-thrilling crime thriller that is so unbelievable some of the scenes are laughable. The writing is so poor and it's not helped by actors who are all acting as heavy Liverpool gangsters. None of them are scary ! I've seen scarier 'gangsters' on Eastenders.

None of it is remotely believable and the BBC has stretched the drama to 8 episodes ? Is this nonsense where my licence fee money is going ?

Can i get a refund please ?

Whereas I would give the original French version of this thriller a resounding 8 stars i'd give this US copy only 5.

It's totally devoid of thrills and momentum !

There is good story in there but they've made such a hash of telling it. Very poor direction and screenplay.

It has good actors too but everybody is 'acting' ....its totally unrealistic. You can't relate to any of them.

As for the Iranian story line well that's just plain bizarre in my opinion ....did nobody take any notes from the French drama ? And to add this to an African story and then that to an Ukraine story ? It just doesn't stack up for me. Sorry.

Once again a production doesn't live up to all the hype. This is a boring , mundane 'thriller' and Frederick Forsyth must be unimpressed with what they've done with his classic story.

It plods along with an adequate performance from Redmayne and totally lacklustre acting from the MI5 bods who are chasing him. God help us if that is the calibre of spy protecting our country.

I'm on episode 6 now and i'm losing the will to live . I can't believe they're stretched the story to 10 episodes. It's turned into a typical TV euro-thriller you'd watch if there was nothing decent on Netflix but i've got this far so i'll persevere till the end.