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Taggart is definitely the best of these British murder mystery police shows. Inspector Morse is good, but Taggart takes the cake due to its huge body count and fantastic Scottish accents. The body count is the major thing lacking in series like Morse and the woeful Inspector Wexford. With Taggart, we are barely given a chance to come up with a suspect for one murder and suddenly someone else has copped it and throws a spanner in the works. Excellent show.

Well, this movie achieved something I thought was not possible. It was worse than the original. Farcical plot-lines and beyond farcical characters contributed to this movie's awfulness. Halfway through the movie I was seriously starting to contemplate whether it had been intended as a comedy, as nobody in their right minds, I thought, could write such drivel with the intention to pass it off as a serious film. The so-called "twist" in the end was perfectly obvious to the observant viewer . The very end is quite probably the worst, most unrealistic ending to a film I have seen (well since the original anyway). Not only that but the film boasts one of the least marketable titles in the history of cinema. One final note to the producers: please, please, for the sake of the human race, do not EVER make another sequel. Sadly, on the IMDB's scale of 1 to 10, there is nothing below 1.