Five Days Reviews

[Highly rated reviewer]

Yawn!

Could've been cut (far more successfully) to a maximum of an hour and twenty minutes. Have never before spent so much time watching little or nothing happening on screen.

Much of the dialogue is irrelevant to the plot, the building of characters or their inter-relationships.

Another poor British drama

I have just finished watching disc one and I will not be watching disc two. The acting is poor at best and the characters are quite unbelievably stereotypical from the police inspector who 'hates the media' to the annoying adolescent who 'surprise surprise' hates her stepdad.

Add to that the previews condense into 1 minute all you really need to know from the forthcoming episode and take away what little suspense their is. This should have been condensed into two episodes max as it has that 'dragged out' feeling.

BBC have come up with some good dramas but sadly this is definetly not one of them.

Began good, but disc 2 lost it unfortunately...

The story is interesting and the cd1 really got you interested and wondering... you really look forward to cd2, but then that is when the writers lost it...

cd2, in the preview part, gives you a lot of info, that you could have get along seeing it yourself little by little, suspense in between.

They basically tell you what to expect in the whole new hour , so much so, that the suspense, surprise element , is somehow lost.

It was also very difficult to follow, as things didnt follow an orderly way as in the beginning. There is no connection whatsoever, with ending in cd1 to beginning cd2... really frustrating

I think the writers thought of a good story but failed to put it through in the division of cd1 and cd2.

Five Days

Really enjoyed the first disc with the first five episodes, However two months later I am still waiting for the secong and final disc.

[Highly rated reviewer]

Grim And Not In A Good Way

I guess somebody has to say this felt like it took 5 days to get through, so I guess it might as well be me...I actually enjoy a slower paced drama. I like characters that are given time to develop and situations that unfold, but this is so monotonously paced and so determined to be complex that I'm afraid I lost interest in any of these people and in anything they had to say or do way before the hugely disappointing finale. Great cast, lots of ACTING, bit dull.

Oh dear!

This started out so well but after 5 hours it totally fizzed out with no real explaination of the mystery. There were also simply too many coincidences to be believeable. Highly disappointed.

just great

well this is just great a tipe of film witch you just have to keep wotching untill its finished in 5 parts disk 1 and 2 wotched one 1 day and the other one the next day to get to who done it.

100% film

[Highly rated reviewer]

Five very drab and L-O-N-G days..

This drama (ha!) actually stretches over 40 odd days not 5, and you will feel like it is more, it completely answers why us Brits are watching more and more U.S. dramas, as this one completely explains the lack of writing, acting and producing talent in the UK at the moment. It is DIRE, a completely mis-handled confused uninteresting load of codswollop that has left a considerable bad taste. Ah well better try and forget this as best we can and get back to the excellent House, Bones, CSI etc etc type series that America seems ti be able to make without breaking a sweat. Come on U.K. - we used to be good at this stuff, whatever happened ?

V Good

I missed this BBC drama and was very pleased to see it on DVD. Was a very good drama, and a very enjoyable watch.

Don't waste your time

This would be good if it was shorter, it took far too long to watch, especially with a break between discs being sent out! The acting is good but the whole story is just so drawn out it gets boring very quickly.

I found myself fast forwarding through the second disc to get to the end more quickly, not really worth wasting your sunscription or money on.