just watch it!

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

If you notice that this TV series is on a channel; see it! It has been many years now, since John Thaw brilliantly contributed to this series, but it is just as good today. John Thaw as Inspector Morse is a study in good crime film, outstanding role performances and unique scenes in Oxford. It's no wonder that the spin-off series Lewis came in the cool water of this series. And while Lewis is also good, nothing beats Morse. In the series about Morse we meet a complex and exciting role figure, which John Thaw manages to bring forth the breadth and depth. Everything works well in this series, and some of the best is the ability to entertain while at the same time drama is on its best. I can not do anything else to recommend all new (and old) fans to spend time on this series. You will not regret it, while there is something wary about it too. Such as this is no longer made.

I don't understand how this was popular for so many years. It's deadly dull and very slow. When there are many much more entertaining shows, I don't see how this maintained high viewing figures in the United Kingdom throughout its run.The regular characters aren't likable or interesting.

I loved this series when I watched it on television many years ago, and now when I re-watch it on my computer screen I still find it very good. I like the Oxford setting: the beautiful time-honoured surroundings in the old university town. The calmness - but with passion and wrath beneath it! I like the perfect Oxford English that most of the actors speak. It is like music in my ears! And I like Inspector Morse himself of course - I can quite relate to him, with his high intelligence, cultural interests (I am also a Wagnerian), lofty ideals when it comes to the opposite sex... and the hopeless loneliness that ensues from those kind of ideals. His romantic interest for some woman he encounters in every episode - but which always comes to nothing...What I do NOT like is first of all that the mysteries are far too complicated. As a viewer, you haven't got a chance to remember or keep apart all the people involved, and all the facts about them and the various crimes, and even less to solve the mystery yourself. I have now begun to stop halfway in every episode, and watch it from the beginning, paying great attention to detail at all times. This makes it easier to follow - but I think for a show that SHOULD be entertainment and not a mind-game, it should not be necessary.Another objection: John Thaw looks VERY old and frail for this role. I thought that he was probably 60-65 in the first seasons, so I was surprised to see, when I looked it up, that he was in fact only 45-50, which ought to be the perfect age for a successful Inspector. Maybe too much booze and to many cigarettes..? :-)Talking of age, as I am myself a middle-aged woman, I appreciate that the women Morse falls in love with are also middle-aged, a bit wrinkled, sometimes even with full figures and grey hairs. I think it is good to show the audience, that middle-aged women with a few age-related flaws can still be lovable!

The writer of the series has definite anti-religious content surrounding his stories. Many take place in church or around cemeteries connected to the churches which are Christian. In one episode many people involved in the church cover crimes by church goes or pastors or are molesters.The Dead in Jericho has Morse singing in a church choir and a woman he falls for singing in the choir. Everything is so deviant. Supposedly she had sex with the son she put up for adoption. This woman is having an affair and is pregnant. Everything about Morse stories are corrupt. "Service of the Dead"-People are attending a service, the pastor is killed, many of the people connected with the church are involved in something ungodly, adultery, molestation, murder and more. Morse is portrayed as a non-believer in anything except for "what he believes in" and scoffs at those who do believe in something connected to God. He is a alcoholic, a cop that drinks on the job, a cop that helps the woman he likes as in "Service of the Dead" to get out of more trouble by saying he heard something he did not and testifies on her behalf. He is a womanizer and falls for most of the females he meets. Two things you can count on in each series Morse drinking on the job, at home or with the woman he meets 2. him asking a woman out that he meets.Colin Dexter the writer of Morse does not believe in God and has his character like the coroner in "Last Bus to Woodstock" answering questions about God and the afterlife as if he died and experienced it himself and believes in nothing but the dead. The coroner went on preaching to his friend that seemed to be search for God. What a farce. God I hate this series. It really shows me how non-believers put into the story atheistic ideas that are suppose to be fact and turn people actually searching for something higher then themselves away from God. These story lines are so transparent when most of the religious people are bad, corrupt etc. So this is not true.There is a God and there are Christians and people of other religions that sin but they continue on their journey in faith, repent and work on their sin to be what God wants them to be and know God still loves them.Morse nor Colin Dexter won't take the belief in God out of me and I hope others don't fall for the stories written by Colin Dexter.