Lack of good storyline.

It is a performances centric movie

Great Film overall

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

If I was rating just one of the episodes I would probably rate it at 9 or 10. The only reason I dropped to overall rating to 7 is that each episode is basically the same, concentrating on the medical trauma and the intervention. There is a slight story running in the back ground but it´s weak at best. A stronger underlying story would make this series so much better. An excellent example of that is the series Bodies which is in the same genre but because it had a great story as well as the raw medical content it was just brilliant. But even as only a seven, still well worth watching.

Dear God this is dire! OMG! We have 60 minutes to save the world, and every other stereotype you can think of. It's scripted more like a Quinn Martin disaster movie than serious T.v. Having had lots of surgery,I Can categorically say this was written by someone who's never been in an operating theatre. It's very dramatic, but how much drama can you take in 60 minutes! Very 2 dimensional characters and the patient seems to be little more than a bit part. After the first few episodes, it wasn't so much theatre, as theatre of blood. Seriously, we get it, but do we really need so much blood and gore by the bucketful! Thank God SKY have done the decent think and killed this show.

I can appreciate some skepticism from reviewers when watching this drama. Mette Fredsted Gram's review however seems altogether unfairly harsh and so i put forward my review. I have never written a review but here we go... Firstly, compared to other a&e dramas such as Casualty, Critical is the most accurate when it comes to procedures and interventions. I have seen some of these completed on real people and i must praise the writers for taking the time to get this right. Critical is a drama based in a 'major trauma center' where an hour long episode (including adverts) centers around the golden hour of trauma treatment for one patient. As each episode takes this format, writers use staff conversations to tell the story of each staff member. I do wish hospitals would have the funds to spend making each A&E department look like the amazing suite in which Critical is based. This is the most unrealistic part of the drama!!In the real world trauma jobs such as the ones featured in this series are thankfully not everyday occurrences. This means that when these jobs do arise, nerves will be apparent and perhaps the writers wanted to use this human emotion to let us care about the characters. We must acknowledge that Critical is primarily a drama designed to entertain and so these tensions are exaggerated to keep the audience in suspense.Actors and Actresses of the drama portray the team spirit of a medical team well. The use humor to deal with stressful situations but the true emotion of the character is clear. All in all i think Critical is worth a watch and worth the 10 stars awarded not the 1 that one reviewer has stated. I cant wait for the next episode.

The show LOOKS great and is for the most part compelling, and well acted. I have loved Lennie James in his other work, but in this I find him a touch over the top. He seems to be saying his lines in a very DRAMATIC way , whereas the character of Glenn repeatedly tells us this is his speciality (critical injuries). Most of the other cast maintain a calm dignified and professional tone in the presence of some immensely bloody trauma, and the obligatory internal hemorrhage. It would open the show out a little if we saw how the patients had suffered these accidents, and the paramedics work, etc. Don't watch while you're having your dinner, by the way.