There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

The acting in this movie is really good.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

This series get me really thrilled, the plot is very well done and the production high values is top notch, I will look forward works from this director again,I bumped into this series after watch another masterpiece series Sherlock, so in the first minutes I start watching I know that is going to be a top notch series, I always like crime series and this series is very depht and the performance is brilliant the characters were superb, I was very sticky to the series to the very end, and the ending is unconventional damn good, and I don't know but I didn't want to end the series, because is a great miniseries just 7 episodes but very well directed and as I said the plot is very wit.

This series is a cut above the bulk of similar genre shows. It has a good story and is well-plotted. Some of the characters are better cast than is typical and it therefore holds the attention.Where it falls down is that all the characters have the same way of talking, their speech is from a version of a David Mamet power and crime drama and laced with some contemporary management speak. They take an idea and riff it - like Mamet does - and speak quietly and coolly to show they are all powerful. It becomes boring after a while.Additionally, the interaction between the police is unrealistic. People are abusive and often plain stupid which seems an unlikely trait and rather odd, certainly compared with the criminals, who are eccentric but very polite. It indicates style over substance which is a weakness in the series.Overall, good, but no way as good as the creators self-consciously believe it is.

having read some of the reviews on here, one in particular caught my eye and it was from harrybeme who is incidentally from the US. harry thought the series was great until the ending when he found out it was all about pensions and not the money, but wait harry pensions are money and to boot it was also about insurance policies which cost money. i read a review about the series which praised the writer for this, the guy made a jibe about how the US would never do this and how British it was. its true and was utterly ballsy to base the entire reason for the operations around this premise. as for eccleston's character going willingly to his death, harry couldn't comprehend this, well he had given up entirely on life as his wife had told him to let go of the only thing he had done all the drug dealings for ie her!! if you can't get that you're a waste of space as there are some things in life worth more than material gain. as for harry's comments about the reason gabriel and delaney were shot it is all explained in episode six where we find out delaney wanted to go straight and with the help of gabriel bring gatehouse to justice (harry you clearly were not paying attention) but gatehouse being the devious, remorseless bastard he is knew something was up and finished delaney off. all in all it was a compelling programme and i would highly recommend it.

An amazing cast. Chiwetel Ejiofor plays the role of Gabriel perfectly. Eccleston is also a great choice for the man who after Wratten's death is forced to pick up the pieces, even though he never wanted an empire. He also owes a great debt to another man, and has his wife home, who's suffering from Altzheimer's. Stephen Rea and Rafe Spall are AMAZING in their roles. Rea as the mysterious, on a first look harmless, but deadly man who wants to seem friendly, but is under no circumstances to be trusted! Spall as well, as the unpredictable, cruel, disturbed nephew of Harwey who wants to tale over. Rafe delivers an amazing performance, in my opinion. The Shadow Line is different from your usual cop series. It indeed is, though sometimes it seems like it's trying too hard. On my side there never was any doubt Gabriel was 'evil' and from the moment Gatehouse killed Andy I knew he'd killed Wratten as well. However, emotion is its strength, and it shows you how tough it is to deal with crime etc together with everything you have going on in your personal life. The plot is however, generally unpredictable, the performances are great, the music is beautiful and the whole series creates a nice dark atmosphere. It could be a bit more fast paced so that viewers don't lose interest, but I prefer series who take their time to develop characters as well. All in all a really good drama/cop combination, definitely worth to watch.