I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

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.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

and fear, paranoia, government death squad, mistakes, remedy... it's all here, and more!Max Raban (James Nesbitt) is a reporter with a couple of big problems, one, he's dead scared of daylight! So, he does a lot of stuff at night, midnight if necessary, like... scratching through rubbish bags to get (whatever), on one of his previous "scoops" he gets dirt on a politician, but then, his source hangs herself and Max is out of job. But then, a very-small time soccer player gets killed, and beheaded. Whilst raking through a bin to get info on the Defence Secretary who might be having an affair, he finds a document with "Headless Torso" and "Pugnus Dei" in it. What's this all about. So he goes digging.Gradually, the evidence builds up. He is followed, he sees his follower mugged and buys the phone and wallet from the muggers, and learns of a connection to a shady outfit called "Defence Concerns", so, of course, that's his next call. The boss is Daniel Cosgrave (Rupert Graves), the policy adviser is Alice Ross (Catherine McCormack). This movie might be McCormack's most impressive performance. She is so well dressed, and really becomes the part, it doesn't seem like acting at all. She even has a phobia of her own. (OCD?) and it fits in perfectly with all the rest of the story. The best scene is when Alice "gets" the memory stick and copies it... but Daniel hesitates as he leaves... and knows that he NEVER leaves his keys in the desk lock...Silliest scene is Alice, (fully clothed) in the bath!The writing is first-class, with lots of especially good scenes with memorable, and quotable lines. And there is nothing wrong with the directing and production. I liked it.

I have some time for Nesbit, he does the 'Brit Grit' TV dramas well, but in Midnight Man, he and the writers seem to be sleepwalking their way through the plot. The gimmick of a daylight phobia is inconsistently portrayed with his occasional, unexplained forays into daylight without much fuss, then suddenly he can't possibly go out?? Maybe he was just having good days and bad days, but the viewer is not to know the intricacies of this particular psychosis - so either explain it to us properly or don't bother - it's not like it actually adds anything to the story - it's just a quirk thrown in to make up for the poor writing. Oh, and on the subject of poor writing - being told off by his journo 'friend' for being paranoid. Now that might have flown before his wife was killed execution style, but to accuse him of paranoia the day after she opens her front door and receives a bullet in the forehead, is STUPID. Perhaps they wrote that bit of dialogue then moved the time line when her execution takes place...inconsistent and lazy. As for when the 'hit man', supposedly hired for his racist, keep England all white predilections, pours out his heart on the bus...WHAT?? Referring to cutting of the head of the boy as being traumatic, I didn't sign up for this stuff... ummm... last night you did kill his wife, wouldn't that be more traumatic as she was a middle class, Anglo British mum, and obviously not a bloody terrorist. Give me a break.At that point I tuned out.

Not that bad. Another poster put that it was clichéd. but they had not finished watching the mini-series. OK it wasn't the best thing i've ever seen, but not a total waste of my time. OK the plot begins with a reporter (called max)who got fired from a newspaper following some kind of scandal. whilst working freelance he comes across some info on the murder or an Iranian man, suggesting there was more to the story than had been previously thought. He attempts to investigate this but has initial problems such as his phobia of day-light (bit silly) and later problems as he is constantly being set up. he begins to think there may be an anti-Asian group behind the killing. but as he is thought to be a bit crazy and untrustworthy can he find proof that he is innocent and uncover the truth behind the government conspiracy? not fantastic but worth a watch. you can find it on ITV website or other movie websites.

Utter cliché ridden trash. We have the hero with a gimmick (can't stand daylight) a dysfunctional family and a past he wants redemption for. We have MI5 or whatever cutting heads off (as they do) but making mistakes. We have the Government minister screwing a lap dancer plot line, a murky quasi government armaments board run by brain dead totty who you just know will fall for the hero. How many times have we had this plot? At 9.30 I said to my partner that I bet they knock off one of the characters as a warning. Right on que at the end they kill Nesbitt's wife. In the trailer for the next week he says it was done as a warning to him. So why not plug him and the series? Dreadful