Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Michelle Ridley The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Neil Welch Two things happen - lights in the sky make most people go blind, and the world is simultaneously overrun by Triffids, intelligent ambulatory carnivorous plants.Classic stories - of which John Wyndham's The Day Of The Triffids is one - are almost entitled to revisitation by the TV/movie industry every few years. This particular iteration is a two part, 3 hour co-production between the BBC and sundry others, and features Dougray Scott as major protagonist Bill Masen.In this instance, Masen actually works with the Triffids, which were harnessed by his father to produce Triffid oil to defeat global warming in an interesting tweak to the original. In a less pleasing tweak, Masen's mother was killed by Triffids when he was a child, which results in frequent and annoying flashbacks of African natives in frightmasks.Dougray Scott is a dour, unappealing, and frequently unintelligible protagonist. Joely Richardson is a solidly effective leading lady and Eddie Izzard is an entertaining but motiveless baddie.The scenes of a devastated London are very effective, and the Triffids are nicely realised.Which leaves the script, in respect of which one can only say "Oh dear." There are digressions which would be fine in an ongoing series, but which have no place in a miniseries like this. There are illogicalities aplenty. There are characters with no apparent motivation, and unbelievable motivations. The Day Of The Triffids is an easy story to make believable. This effort chooses not to.

alla0015 This has very little to do with the book written by John Wyndham. This movie/show, whatever, is a total and unparalleled piece of garbage. Watching it would have made John Wyndham turn in his grave. This book deserves a show of "Survivors" quality.The makers of this version took a great classic, removed all that made this book great and substituted it with their version of pseudo science that makes no sense. The book is a psychological drama of the world gone blind. The triffids (that have nothing in common with triffids portrayed in this movie) and mysterious plague are additional elements that complicate the situation. This movie/show makes it all about triffids and their "biology". As a biologist, I can only say that whoever wrote this part had no clue what they were talking about. This so called "biology" of triffids is on par with that of the "Alien" (when they make an incision of the alien, "blood" burns through several floors of the spaceship, yet the scalpel is undamaged)...

kittenkongshow We watched the 1981 version of this first, we'd got both DVD's fairly close to each other, so thought it would make an interesting comparison.The 81 one has slow moments and is 'of it's age' production value wise but is by far the best adaptation.The 2009 one starts OK keeping roughly to the plot (We'll ignore the plane crash which is a to be honest a bit of a stretch credibility wise) but by part two it's quite happily wandering around desperately trying to find ways to destroy it's self and it manages it!.There's a review above which give's a good description of the holes/stretches of credibility so i'll not here.A wasted opportunity.

Warren Marris Many of the reviews have already talked about lazy direction and glaring mistakes... IE: Joley Richardsons Character meeting the other heroes and proclaiming "I thought I was the only one" within 2 minutes of the shows big event... And yeah! Thats a fair pick up......But realistically, would you really have sat there for 4 hours to watch the two main characters scramble about trying to find another person who could see among a world full of the blind? Of Course you wouldn't! So we have "Artistic License". Eddie Izzard surviving the plane crash... About as real as Katie Price's Boobs... But hey! Its menat to be TV!!! There is room for a bit of "No Way" Stuff...The show has some good moments of tension - though it does bear heavy on the "Eco Friendly" line for a while. And where the original story had the Triffids drop from space, here they are natives to Zaire where our capitalist society messes with them and so the film acts as a warning against GM as well... That for me was a spoil point - I am an eco warrior but even I get sick of it being rammed down peoples throats! Do not be fooled by a big name cast list either - Many of the characters are indeed very throw away.As for the end... If you have read the original books, heard the Radio Play or seen the original series, the end will not really be much of a surprise...Ignore the very Hollywood reviews, and watch with a typically open minded attitude. Over all the film is a reasonable adaption and well worth a watch. Some good action moments even if the Triffids are obviously rubbery (Adds to the shows Charm for me!) An Excellent watch if a little Flawed... But so was Avatar and many Holloywood Winners so be sensible and lok at it for what it is.NB: IF I hear one more person moan about Eddie Izzards Character preserving his own wretched life instead of asking what was going on - I WILL SCREAM! We do not know what we would do if we found out we had mere minutes before death... So stop being bloody pedantic!