Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

dougroper-23168 Reading some reviews of The State, it seems some have completely missed the point of this mini-series. Far from glamourising IS this excellent series lays bare the lie that is at the heart of the death cult of Daesh. That lie draws impressionable, idealistic young Muslims across the west into a situation way out of their depth. Some argue that all who join IS know exactly what they are doing, which seems to leave some viewers unable to find anything sympathetic about the four young Brits portrayed here. Frankly, being unable to experience empathy for these characters says more about the person reviewing than it does about the situation itself. Far from idealising and glamourising IS this remarkable mini-series shows the brutality and evil at the heart of it in a way nothing else I've seen quite does. Several scenes are incredibly difficult to watch, clearly intentionally so, and I found the changes of focus from the young jihadis experiencing the terror of battle and the brutalisation of witnessing torture, to the stories of the women and children equally brutalised and adapting (or not) to an almost alien culture, incredibly compelling. This was brave television and for the most part well done. I feel it would have benefited from more time given to the ending, as this felt rushed and uncertain, but otherwise an excellent and compelling story.

sea_goat Felt compelled to write a review (when I usually don't) because I couldn't believe how many other reviewers had missed the point of this series. Four Brits travel to IS full of excitement and anticipation, each is there for a different reason, and one by one they all have to face disillusionment and regret. The whole point of the series is that they each deal with that regret in a completely different way. It is a work of genius to portray brainwashed characters successfully because their actions do not make sense to viewers who have not been brainwashed themselves. But here they are so well written and acted that you sympathise and empathise with young, idealistic people who have been told not to believe what they've seen on TV or read in newspapers. They have trusted the people who told them that and it's how they act when they realise that trust was misplaced that is the interesting bit.That these are sympathetic characters is not the issue here. This series is in no way an advert for IS nor does it apologise for anything the caliphate or its followers do. Simply brilliant stuff.

corek-24310 Story of 4 Brits going out to Syria to support IS state in the overthrow of the Syrian regime. As the majority of British Moslems are Sunni and IS state supports the Sunni Muslims against the Shia followers, it doesn't take much effort for Sunni Muslims in Britain to go and support their fellow believers in Syria. The series pulls no punches of the brutality of the IS State and shows where it ignores the teachings of Mohammed "for their own ends" thereby corrupting the teachings of Islam. You can see how the four Brits start to slowly realize that the teachings of Islam is not really the main force of the IS leadership, they are looking for power and control and are just using the teachings of Mohammed, to lure the stupid and vulnerable, for their own ends. It shows how decent people are used, against their wishes to be humane, because of a corrupt ideology.

oliverdearlove This is a story of 4 travellers ( Brits ) who go out to Syria starry eyed and of their adventures there. They of course have a view of the New Dawn and the regimentation and discipline is applied pretty quickly. It is extremely well acted and it is difficult to know if the characters have insight into the measures that are taken to isolate them. As it is British - irony is used as a part of the drama - one girl comments in Arabic "She can't read the Qoran and she is telling me how to behave." The British doctor I particularly identified with - as my mother had stories of faceless bureaucracy ( in the program's case po-faced Arab bureaucracy ) saying 'no' when clearly the answer is 'yes, we need all the help we can get' The bombing of the neonatal unit is particularly well donea very powerful program showing how supposedly educated Brits are led to the slaughter like willing sheep