SpecialsTarget Disturbing yet enthralling

Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

mark-saxby Well, the paper said it would be fun, but it was, frankly, rubbish.I'd agree Anna Madeley was the best thing in it, a very watchable woman (look out for her in the upcoming Mrs Beeton drama), but this was drivel (and I quite like fluff TV on the whole).The 'plot' didn't make much sense, they shoehorned in every recent, clichéd plot device and the continuity was laughable - In fact, not continuity in errors, but stupid plot development. After Erica had been sent to retrieve Nathan from his hideout, we see her arrive, for her first day at the secret hideout (Obviously a few Man From Uncle DVDs still in Blockbuster's bargain bin...). She's given a book in Serbo Croat to translate, but a second later she's filing AND she knows how the filing system works...God preserve us from a series, even if it would mean we'd see more of the lovely Ms Madeley...

JayArfur When looking at trailers for this ITV Drama it was clearly an attempt at turning Nigel Harman (yet another ex-soap star jumping to ITV) into a Jason Bourne like character. Hell, it even had Brian Cox in it! I thought I'd give it a go. How bad could it be I thought...But within 5 minutes of watching the programme it was clear that Jason Bourne wasn't the writer's only influence. As noted by others The Da Vinci Code was one of them. The list of rips-offs....or homages continued with Out Of Sight (and Don't Look Now), Alias, the list seemed to go on and on.It's okay to be like another film or TV show, but at least try to do something different.The Outsiders was a mess, the plot was all over the place, the characters were two dimensional and totally in-consistent. One minute Anna Madeley our attractive female lead seemed to be in total control of the situation, the next she was the new girl at the office wa-a-a-y in over her head....The villains weren't anything special.The few action set pieces were fumbled by the director.Dialogue was turgid.The tone was all over the place, was it meant to be a bit tongue in cheek or was it meant to be a down and dirty action thriller? It wasn't either.It was a below average Sunday tea-time show put in a post-watershed time slot for no good reason.Even the shows title made no sense.The real annoyance was that only a few days ago ITV1 broadcast a new one-off special of Cracker. Which was 2 hours of TV gold. Proof that ITV can still (occasionally) do good drama.In a world where shows like 24, CSI and The Shield exist there isn't any excuse for shows like The Outsiders to reach our screens.I very much doubt it'll be turned into a full series, but if it does it really needs some re-tooling. Getting new writers would be job one.Avoid, avoid, avoid. Instead put on the DVD of one of the Bourne films.

alan-tuson Touted as being in the genre of " The Bourne Identity" (and Supremacy), this film had a lot to live up to, but failed miserably. Nigel Harman plays a former spy now running a lobster restaurant. He is seduced into bed, and wakes up chained to it. He is "kidnapped" into going on the very clichéd "one last job". The task is to steal a painting from a very secure place. The idea of this provokes thoughts of a good action thriller, but the film was almost 40 minutes in before any action took place. After 55 minutes I was getting bored, so went for a bath. My wife stuck it out till the end , and assured me that it didn't get any better. Prime time TV? Sorry but this one really did disappoint. What made it worse was the TV guide giving it an unmissable rating. If ITV do screen further episodes (as previous reviewer mentioned), then I may give it a second go, but if it was no better 15 minutes in, I would turn over without question.

skidsy-2 This could have been so much better. The first half hour was wasted trying to link up the main characters around the lobster pot restaurant and a torn photo. Although it took half an hour to achieve it was sketchy and, to be honest, very poor. The plot line was fine but badly executed as was the casting. None of the villains were believable and the investment banker character was just badly written.What topped the whole thing for me was being too familiar with the locations used for the opening half hour around the Wirral coastline. After the helicopter stunt, the running through the fields, the hiding in the caravan and the getaway in the stolen car they ended up back on the coast about five minutes walk from where they started! The idea would be good for a series but it needs better scripts and better casting in the lessor roles to get away with it.