Truly Dreadful Film

Please don't spend money on this.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

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

I watched the first 4 seasons of this series and it just gets sillier and sillier with each season. I can't say for sure but the idea that any "secret operative" of any agency would tell the young child of a lover that they are "spies but don't tell anyone ever" is just absurd! It seems like they just brag about being spies a bit too much to be believable. The plots become repetitive and nonsense the further on in the series I get. If you want intelligent television try watching "The Newsroom" or "The West Wing" which I consider two of the best TV shows ever broadcast. I would hate to think this is a realistic portrayal of MI-5. It seems to me that real life MI-5 agents must find this program laughable and probably hate the ridiculous image of their service that it portrays. Don't think I will bother with season 5 onward.

Spooks depicts the activities of MI5 agents protecting the UK from various threats to the country's internal security. The episodes I tried also mixed in a storyline presenting the personal life of the director of the agents depicted. This seemed like an awkward blend, and one that just didn't work for me. I wondered whom the show was trying to please.The counter-intelligence plots are satisfying enough, but the stories seemed too neat, too quickly wrapped up. I've not yet been convinced of the season-long or series-long story arcs that are fashionable these days. Spooks, however, made me wonder whether such a format would work better for the stories they are telling.There are moments of graphic, horrific violence here, but I cared so little about the characters that even this lacked any serious emotional punch. "Ewww" is a pretty cheap reaction to set up; but if you're not engaged with the characters, it's meaningless and quickly over.So, definitely not my thing. If not for the weird inclusion of soap opera elements, I could recommend it to folks who like spy thrillers, but on the basis of what I saw, I won't be recommending this to anybody.

From watching a few episodes from BBC online, I was totally hooked. I then bought 9 seasons of Spooks and watching one to two episodes a day. What I love about it, is that it doesn't try and glorify the roles of Mi5 agents, it feels so realistic, and well it touches on topics that you feel wow, what our governments are probably doing to protect our country and keep us safe that we will most likely never know about.It brings up the political agenda as well and how that that conflict can arise with bringing to justice criminals as it affects a politician's own personal agenda.Some of the scenes are scary and the suspense just keeps going, its not predictable but keeps you on the edge of you seat, and my mouth has been left hanging open for quite a few of the scenes. What you also get is you never know which main character will die or be asked to leave the service, so never ever think that even the main characters are safe.So if you like things blowing up, spies, the James Bond, etc. You will love this.

good if not unrealistic in some aspects are mi5 officers armed was under the impressions there supposed to be more invisible and unarmed and un able to arrest anyone lol but the last series was absolute rubbish was hard to stay interested .....im British but feel that at times it seems so anti American its hard to believe it gets put on TV in the USA....and the Russians seem to always be out manoeuvring them ...as irritating as it may be at times its a shame its being cancelled and as usual its been cancelled without a replacement in place maybe they should re brand it and set it in the cold war could be more interesting......it was more interesting when there was one story line per episode rather than dragging a main story line out over the whole series and the constant changing of the main character is irritating i find my self losing track of some of them not to mention how many times they change the home secretary its like 7 in 10 years ......its good but flawed in some aspects sometimes u just have to put your brain to sleep and watch personally id rather watch the first few series and not bother with the last 2 and the ending was a bit disappointing