Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

FrogGlace In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

gordymck Interesting spin on the usual police investigation story, that starts with the incident and then unravels the story over the 5 episodes as the main characters piece together what happened. Douglas Henshall is excellent as usual, in his trademark moody Scottish leadership role (see 'Shetland' for more Henshall) and the background story move along reasonably well. This had so much potential, with the calibre of the acting and the plot, it could have easily have been renewed for more than one outing, if only the producers had the foresight to take the format forward. The basic premise of the show, that of a road traffic accident and the subsequent investigation of all the many variables that led up to the crash, offers the possibility of many different season arcs as the characters investigate different scenarios over a number of episodes. If this had been an American show, I'm sure it would have been renewed.Nice twist at the end, which adds a whole new dimension to the whole story :)

colepteran I'm not going to describe what's going on in the film because others have but I must say this is a keeper.I bought the DVD and have seen it 5 times now. Of course it's easy to watch Douglas Henshall... any time especially his voice.. whew... Story line is believable and the writing is top notch. Incredible film. I have a friend who has trouble hearing things, so I turned on the closed captions . . makes it easier to understand words not familiar to us folks over across the pond from the UK. Top marks, y'all. It's really a great show. Thank you

winopaul I saw the cut-down 2-hour USA version. This was only part 1 and I feel deeply betrayed by PBS for not telling me it was two parts or running them back-to-back.Ya know how everyone went all squishy when Quentin Tarantino chopped up the time-line in Pulp Fiction? And you know how every episode of Law and Order Criminal Intent starts with 5 minutes of completely incoherent and unrelated action? OK, now do both for 42 minutes. Then, just as you consider assaulting the writer's hands with a garden implement so he never types again, finally, finally, the collision. That was the name of this thing in the 2-hour version, probably named such in the hope that a few intrepid viewers would hang on to the 42 minute mark.In the re-cut they would put helpful captions like "The day before the collision". That helped a bit. Watching now I see the one nondescript white guy gave the 500 pounds to the other nondescript white guy who I at least realize was driving the truck. The first guy might be the same guy who paid for memory stick files from the secretary, not sure. Jesus people, put some Asians and Hispanics in the cast so we can tell characters apart.(Spoiler) Oh gosh, another character killed off, and only 15 minutes to go. This might be a part-1 part-2, 4 hours of misery instead of 2 hours. Help me, help me. Ohhhhh crap, first twist, what's in the truck, and yeah, it ends in the middle. Another 2 hours to go. Give me that garden implement. I better be able to find this on YouTube. Then again, I may as well watch a well-written procedural instead of the second half of this.It would be fun to get the 5-hour brit version, rip it to avi, and re-edit this thing into an hour or two. Do the whole thing from the point of view of the detective. Keep his chronology in order and flashback as needed. Better yet would be to do some reshoots. Then you could start out with the detective and his daughter on the couch. When she insist on going to college in Edinburgh, he could explain that all the Edinburgh boys like anal sex, from growing up with sheep in the Scottish highlands. Four or five minutes of a touching father-daughter talk on the taboos, trade-offs and virtues of anal, and then cut to the crash. You could get both sex and violence in before the first commercial break.The touching personal scene would get us all pulling for the detective right from the start, and the contrast and similitude between anal sex and a car crash would probably win the Palme d'Or at Cannes.

albertk1 Although I enjoyed the show, I did not understand where Tolin got the digital version of the incriminating information on the chemical company. Did anyone else catch that? Also, in retrospect, I gather from the final "what might have been" sequence, that Jane had taken an unsuccessful swat at the wasp at the beginning of the series. But that was not memorable and it would have helped if that had been included among the many flashbacks. Some other issues were unresolved: (1) Did Brian get arrested for murdering his mother-in-law? The police still wanted to see him and there were some suspicious findings regarding how he handled the car. (2) Was the head of the chemical company arrested for involvement in his employees murder or genocide in East Africa? Again there was some evidence.It seemed not only heartless, but bad policing for Tolin to have ignored the plea of the phony James Taylor. Acting on his plea could have led the police to the murderers of Karen Donnelly.