Foyle's War
Foyle's War
| 27 October 2002 (USA)
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  • Reviews
    Cubussoli

    Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

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    Onlinewsma

    Absolutely Brilliant!

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    FuzzyTagz

    If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

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    Rexanne

    It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

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    Varun Bhakay

    'Foyle's War' is an incredible piece of television by Anthony Horowitz. What a series! Michael Kitchen is superbly understated as Foyle, quiet, a man of few words but is never lost in the background. Honeysuckle Weeks is the exact opposite: chirpy, talkative and eager to help as more than a driver. One gets to see a realistic bit of the English countryside and those who think that all Englishpeople have the same accent are in for a bit of a shock. There are good performances from the supporting cast too, especially from Anthony Howell. The production design is by-and-large period-appropriate. The writing is top-notch. It can get easy to get sucked into a bit of a cycle while writing a detective show but Horowitz goes after every possible crime: from murder to war profiteering. He adds compelling central characters for each episode and has sensible sub-plots through the series. 'Foyle's War' is like wine. Gets better with each passing episode.

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    raymond-70

    Foyle's War is a very good detective series which also gives fascinating insights into life in England during and shortly after the Second World War. In my opinion it is very well written and portrayed. With one exception i enjoy everything about it immensely: With few exceptions everyone in it are portrayed as heavy smokers and there is no event in it that is not a good excuse for having a cigarette – something that i am sure that the tobacco industry is very happy about. I am fully aware that smoking was much more accepted then, but i believe that it is totally unnecessary to furnish that despicable industry with advertisement.

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    writetopcat

    Set in Britain in 1940 the show is about Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle, of the Hastings Police on the south coast of England, and the cases he solves. But it is about much more than those crimes. The culture of Britain in 1940 like that in America of that time is refreshing to see and is to some extent shown to us. In general their moral and ethical behavior as well as their interpersonal conduct is superior to what is common in present times. Detective Chief Superintendent Foyle is a man of remarkable character. He is reserved, smart, observant, and has a dry wit on occasion. His son has joined the RAF and is also a person of character. DCS Foyle has a driver, a young service girl, daughter of a minister. The detective work is very interesting, but no more so than the glimpse back in time, to a better time I think. I know I am romanticizing a bit about things being better back then; certainly there were problems then and crime was a problem. Yet I can only see those times as superior to the present day.

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    Bert45

    I was an early fan of Foyle's War, especially Michael Kitchen's portrayal of the title character, which is a master class in fine nuance and understatement. The way Kitchen can convey a wealth of meaning with the slightest glance or change in tone when speaking is wonderful to watch. It's almost as if he was born to play this character. Also, the whole concept of police work having to continue as normally as possible in a time of war is intriguing. In many ways, the job would have been so much harder with the backdrop of war and the resultant shortage of resources and increase in disruption. It was a fine idea from the start. Having said that, I found as the series went on and I began to review earlier episodes that something about it had begun to irritate me, and I eventually realised that it was the way in which most of the other characters - apart from Foyle's own inner circle - were portrayed as uniformly negative. Granted, this is a crime and murder-mystery series, so Foyle is dealing primarily with criminals and red-herring characters. But sometimes, it seems as though the writer Anthony Horowitz wants us to believe everyone in wartime Britain was either rotten to the core or afflicted with moral cowardice. No doubt not everyone displayed the "bulldog spirit" that got the nation through those difficult years - every country at war has its share of defeatists, shirkers and traitors - but Horowitz seemed unwilling to allow that positive determined quality in any of his "guest" characters, whether major or minor in the story. This is especially true of anyone in a position of authority. Just about every single person that Foyle deals with who holds rank or official status is portrayed in varying degrees as arrogant, callous, treacherous, obstructive or incompetent - sometimes a combination of these. It's as though Horowitz wants us to think that either Britain's entire wartime leadership was working against its own national interests or that there was never a sense of righteousness in the fight against Nazism. Foyle's War sometimes seemed to be against his own government and his own superiors. On the odd occasion this might have been a useful plot device, but was it necessary for it to be such a constant theme? I can't help wondering what the motive was for this, but I do know that over time it began to spoil my enjoyment of the show.

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