Five Days on DVD (2006)

Yawn!

younglochinvar from Prestatyn [Highly rated reviewer] , 18/09/2007

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.

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Another poor British drama

A customer from Glasgow , 28/10/2007

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.

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

A customer from England , 17/10/2007

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.

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Five Days

Jayne from Bushey , 30/11/2007

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

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Another poor British drama

A customer from Glasgow , 28/10/2007

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.

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Grim And Not In A Good Way

phaidon1 from London [Highly rated reviewer] , 11/12/2007

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.

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