Boring

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

I really enjoyed this series, more than any non-Scandi series since Strike. I thought the direction was terrific. I loved Cary Mulligan's cool performance as a newly promoted detective. I enjoyed the interlocking stories and the roles that all the other characters fulfilled, without it getting so complex that I couldn't understand. The acting was flawless. The music non-intrusive. Four episodes is perfect for a mini-series, in the same way that 90 minutes is better than 120+ for a movie.It's been a while since I wanted to continue to watch a series. Normally, I'm on the verge of abandoning a series (I'm currently struggling to continue Jessica Jones season 2). But this one kept me interested and entertained from beginning to end. Lots of sympathetic characters and suitably Machiavellian bad guys. I'm glad I watched it.

While I appreciate a good political thriller like the average person, I also appreciate the challenge of deciphering the intent and the stance of the creators. With Collateral, you are spoonfed their stance with poorly written dialogue and cliched characters. I felt like I was watching a propaganda series from the left telling me that religion, white man, and western governments are all bad. That said, I sat through the whole series, and some of the acting was great, which is why I gave it a 4. The BBC can do, and has done better.

Come on! This piece of drivel can't have made it through all of the checks and balances at the BBC.To put Nicola Walker through this sort of comic book drollery must be a terrorist offence in its own right. She must have squirmed with embarrassment after she saw the final product, with the rest of the cast behind her hanging their heads in shame!Stereotypical garbage on all fronts, there should be an arrest warrant out for David Hare but with any luck he's secreted himself out of the country. By the time Brexit is finalised there won't be any extradition treaty to get him back here where he should be tried for crimes against the entertainment business.Somebody, somewhere in the process must have realized that Hare and Clarkson (the Director) were incompetent and unable to deliver a good story, but I guess when the train's left the station the driver's the boss!It's just groan after groan of clichéd set ups.There's three or four hours of my life I wouldn't want to relive!A complete dud!

Many reviewers have criticized this production for its heavy handed socio-political message. On the other hand if you regard as a morality play on the awful consequences of being afflicted by Leftwing, it really works.As the story develops you are shown how this affliction will cause you to constantly sneer at all around you, only laugh to underline your innate superiority; you will be betrayed by all your friends and colleagues, and you will betray them. Self pity will govern your life, and so on. There are dangers in putting across a political message in drama, it always risks making the converse point e.g. Leni Riefenstahl who very efficiently demonstrated how awful it was to be a Nazi, although she didn't think that.I am sure the author didn't intend this interpretation, nor do I like the message; but then Jean Paul Sartre was constantly told what his books 'really meant' when he thought they meant something else entirely.If it wasn't for Carey Mulligan the whole thing would have been impossibly thin and wandering. Her part was the only one that really worked.