Reviews

It has elements of The Day of the Jackal from 1973, to me. Think it's the European sophistication, and where she travels around Europe changing identity. I love that, as Jackal is one of my favourite films.

I could imagine it might get those men angry about how only white males are portrayed as bad things nowadays, as females of many races seem to have all the good parts in it. Although I also realise many men encourage and don't feel threatened by women being powerful.

As a woman myself, who has had to be strong from a difficult life of being abandoned as a child, and been in dangerous situations with men from being vulnerable and just trying to survive, I do wonder if a woman could really overpower all those men, as some men twice her size seem to just sit back and let her kill them, instead of fighting back.

It's a very enjoyable comedy. I've never seen anything with Toby Jones that I didn't enjoy. I warmed to most of the characters. Although I'm unsure why the description talks about Brexit. It's making people think leaving the EU has anything to do with non EU immigration or asylum seekers that we're in the mess we're in now.

I often felt sad for being English, as felt like I was surrounded by dumbed down morons who would do things such as call people lefties as an insult, when they're often men who don't pay for the children they have with the partner they're no longer with, live in social housing, are sometimes on welfare and cheer on the NHS, not realising the NHS is a leftie idea. Because they got their political theories from Americans online, who think left or right is just cultural. Or people who fall for politicians like Farage because he says something nationalist, despite the reality being that he paid his foreign wife on tax payers expenses and hides money in foreign tax havens, and only wants to leave the EU as wants to keep the British economy closely linked with USA banks encouraging greed and debt, so the economy crashes every few years when many can't pay back the debts they're encouraged to live on. It made me think there might be a glimmer of hope that some people recognise that a politician putting on a clown act can hide their evil intentions, and some people look more closely into the nonsense politicians spout.

I usually love anything Brenda Blethyn is in, but I'm a few episodes in and haven't laughed yet. Now I've heard it has a second series I'm a bit angry, as a much better comedy called Warren with Martin Clunes which had me bursting our laughing many times wasn't given a second series. Maybe as that was on another channel and they're more fussy. It's almost as if it cared more about giving some kind of social message about asylum seekers, than bothering with a funny storyline.

Saw Johnny English Strikes Again. Was silly so made me laugh. Some was corny and I liked that, as seemed as if wasn't trying too hard. Especially with his silly attempts to attract the Russian spy. Nice scenery in London, south of France and Scotland. Emma Thompson as Prime Minister. Baddie was an American cyber criminal. Russian spy joined together with Britain against him. Russian spy is same actress as in a real James Bond film.

It wasn't scary in the way that stops me sleeping at night, but was thrilling in the way it kept me on the edge of my seat, as was quite emotionally suspense in an eerie world. I had a roller coaster of emotions. I gave it 9 instead of 10 because the time felt as it went quite fast and I wished it had gone on longer. Had me thinking how what might seem obvious in normal life, such as shooting the creatures, would have to be a last option as the noise would attract more. I felt as if this didn't follow the usual Hollywood movie plot, and would probably be more enjoyed by a mature audience, than teenagers more into action movies. It had a low budget which isn't a bad thing, as gave me a feeling I get from independent film makers than Hollywood. I think people who are too critical of this film maybe aren't getting the good points. Talented child actors and good chemistry between John and Emily. Made me think about if we were invaded by aliens then we would need different ways to attack than we might first try.

I had big expectations with such good actors. Real actors from European theatre, TV and films. Sir Michael John Gambon, Christopher Eccleston from Dr Who. Sofie Gråbøl was very good as the governor. Richard Dormer from Game of Thromes played the main police officer well, with Stanley Tucci as the newcomer officer from London. I wasn't disappointed. Reason I watched was because I was getting into watching Icelandic cinema online, and then this came up because it was filmed in Iceland, even though it was British made. The community seemed to be based on Svalbard, island off Norway, and I've always been fascinated what it must be like to live in such a remote location. I thought it was quite an original intriguing story line and cared about the characters. I had to watch whole series in one night, as needed to know what would happen next. Then in-between all the murder and mystery, there was the amusing couple of the uptight Scandinavian teacher, with his fat homely British girlfriend who he enjoyed feeding