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Ep 1 starts well and promises a lot.

Fights are well choreographed and tightly shot and edited.

Ep 2 just about keeps the pace. But we are no longer playing top our styrengths.

By Ep 3 the writers have run out of ideas and the dialogue has started to creak. Loudly.

Ep 4 and there is no denying this is never going to deliver on the promises of Ep 1. By now the dialogue is excruciating.

A general note to Casting Directors: privileged kids fom posh schools should be dicouraged from affecting a glottal stop. It doesn't add street cre. It just comes across as fake at best but more often than not as patronising. Just say the words.

So Mr Walsh has set his own company up and the trials and tribulations of living life without a regular pay cheque has driven him into the arms of David Cameron and his off-shore tax-sheltered cronies.

The drama escalates as, oh gosh, John Walsh discovers there's a Labour candidate not doing his job. Well tell us something else that's new John. You could just as easily have found a Tory who is neglecting the most needy in their constituency. This is Politics in the UK in 2011. MPs are a shabby lot - we knew this without needing you to tell us.

This is not as its own publicity suggests 'thought provoking', 'comedic',or 'explosive'. It is genuinely tedious, self important, and - if this is 'the documentary of the year' - depressing in its shallowness.

At a time when we do need insightful political documentaries this is a shocking waste of time and resources.

With a running time of ninety minutes it is an hour and a half too long for my liking.

The remarkable thing about the film 'Apollo 13' is that although you know how the story ends, the film-makers still achieve story telling of the highest order. Not so, this shameless piece of Yankee propaganda.

It is arrant nonsense to say that this is not a political film - there would be NO film without the politics, yet Stone affects to ignore that this awful event prompted one of the most evil misuses of military-industrial power in modern history. More innocent Afghanis were slaughtered by an act of blind vengeance than the total number of innocent victims of September 11th.

As another person commented on this site, you'd think that the two NY cops buried in this film were the only victims... This film represents the low point of an otherwise interesting and often laudable career as a film maker.

And apart from all the above, even if you take issue with the politics I refer to, I defy you say that this is not the most boring two hours you've ever endured in a cinema.