At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

From Darkness shouts at you that you can have too much of a good thing and indicates that the interest in Scandi-drama is tailing off.From Darkness is so badly written I reckon whatever genre it was in, it would have failed. Anne-Marie Duff is a former police woman relocated to the Hebrides living in a little farm holding. When a body of a prostitute is found, she is drawn back to Manchester and work with DCI Hind (Johnny Harris) who she had an affair with years earlier. It looks like the crime might be linked to the one she investigated many years earlier.The series was certainly moody and cold. The Hebridean setting gives it an isolated feel especially in comparison to the inner city Manchester scenes.The problem was the series was poorly written, filled with clichés and characters which were stereotypes. I think the characters were so poorly sketched out that the actors had trouble filling the vacuum.Somewhere here was a 2 hour film that was stretched out. What we got was dull, dull, dull.

Yet again the Beeb has managed to produce a whacking great turkey. This is one massive bore from start to finish, full of supposedly meaningful looks and camera work, portentous noise (it can't be called music) and pretty well nothing else. The plot, such as it is, meanders around to little purpose, while the characters are caricatures and demand little attention and less interest. Each episode seems to be longer than the previous one, and the last seems to go on, and on, and on, like a bad bout of 'flu. As for the ending, when it finally arrives it's a blessing, even if it is horribly drawn out and utterly idiotic.As is so often the case, it's frequently difficult to tell who is who, so bland are the personalities, and the acting in general is as wooden as can be. It's full of angst and everyone has 'issues'; what it doesn't have is any significant amount of detective work or suspense. It's rubbish, and the sooner I hear that it's been consigned to the dustbin of history, the better.

Watching this was painful. I only watched it all in the hope that the ending would make up for the rest of the slow moving drivel.The main characters did not engage the viewer in any way. I didn't really care what happened to them! I felt no chemistry whatsoever between the two main leads and yet we're supposed to believe that they are suppressing a love so great that they might give up their far more attractive current partners to be together!The character Claire Church kept running away, coming back, running away. Only a few weeks ago I drove to the Isle of Skye and back and it's not a journey you take on lightly, even by train! Supposedly an intelligent ex detective, what exactly was she thinking when she behaved as she did at the wedding they crashed? Deliberately getting plastered, making a ridiculous scene and coming on to her DCI colleague and ex lover. I'm sure the writer could have achieved a similar plot mechanism without contriving unrealistically that experienced DCIs may behave in such a dumb and ill-considered way.The ending was equally pathetic and it's left the door open for a follow up. No witnesses to the shooting, so Church could claim self-defence and act out even more angst over her actions. Also DCI John Hind was still breathing, which in a similar manner unfortunately, might mean that someone may consider there's still life in this nonsense!If so, I won't be investing any more time in this. I'm out.

Weak plot, slower than a wet weekend in Whitby, with a poor script. 3 down 1 to go and not sure I can be bothered. The main character, whose name actually now escapes me, is annoying and dreary. This could be so much better. The plot has no complexity, the characters have no depth and there is nothing to grip the viewer. It's clear that there is something deeply troubling the main character and the sexual history between the two is as cliché as it gets, but it's in no way convincing. Something like Silent Witness manages to do week after week, with almost perfection, what this is trying to do on it's own. Sorry, BBC. Must try harder.