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Sharpe's PerilIt's India, 1818 and Lt Col Richard Sharpe and Sergeant Major Patrick Harper are travelling across India, escorting the beautiful Marie-Angelique Bonnet to meet her fiancee. While in bandit-plagued badlands, they come across the very dregs of the Crown's troops; an ill disciplined, rag-tag unit led by boy soldier Beauclare. As Sharpe and company sit down to have dinner with their hosts, the camp comes under attack by the notorious bandit Chitu. As the dust settles, it becomes apparent there have been many casualties and Sharpe realises that he is the only person now capable of getting this wagon train to the safety of the next army garrison. Little does Sharpe know that the adventure has only just begun and that he has inadvertently stumbled across a massive opium trafficking ring...Sharpe's ChallengeWellington sends Sharpe to India following the news of unrest in the country. Sharpe finds himself tasked with saving a general's daughter and keeping a beautiful scheming woman at arms length.For Sharpe's Peril, Disc 1 includes the programme in two parts. Part one contains scenes 1-8 and Part two then shows scenes 9 onwards.Disc 2 actually contains the 100 minute continuous movie version of the same programme plus a selection of special features.
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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful
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Allot of people look at this and go on about Sean Bean being much older, the story lines being weaker, and the acting wooden. Well, the new series will never live up to the 'glory' of the old, but lets not be too cruel. These are fun, easy to watch and quite enjoyable films making the best of a hard situation, how to carry on a highly successful series long after the original run of books had ended.
The new stories are effecivly re-writings of the 'new' Sharpe books, which follow the life of Richard Sharpe through India in the time before the Nepolionic wars. Obviously they couldnt follow that line exactly as Sean Bean is older now, so they have placed the stories in a post Nepolionic war India. Like all TV dramas, the stories have been shifted around to fit time and script, but that has always been the case with Sharpe.
If you like period drama and easy watching, then these are great, just dont expect the passion and in depth characters that you remember from the 90's.
The new stories are effecivly re-writings of the 'new' Sharpe books, which follow the life of Richard Sharpe through India in the time before the Nepolionic wars. Obviously they couldnt follow that line exactly as Sean Bean is older now, so they have placed the stories in a post Nepolionic war India. Like all TV dramas, the stories have been shifted around to fit time and script, but that has always been the case with Sharpe.
If you like period drama and easy watching, then these are great, just dont expect the passion and in depth characters that you remember from the 90's.
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
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As a huge Sharpe, Bean and Cornwell fan, was lookimg forward to these to complete my collection. As far as budget, effects and film quality are concerned these are by far and away the best to date. However with an ageing Sharpe and Harper it starts to become a little unconvincing. Sharpe's Peril is based on the 3 Cornwell prequel books, and due to obvious reasons they had to be re-written for an older Sean Bean as they were originally set when Sharpe was in the ranks. I would have preffered 3 movies, but they did a pretty good job. Sharpe's Challenge however I thought lacked a little something. Not written by Cornwell and a pretty old cast, this really lacked a little something for me.....
4 stars overall and a nice complete collection, but time for Sharpe to hang up his cavalry sword and retire in peace... thanks for the memories
4 stars overall and a nice complete collection, but time for Sharpe to hang up his cavalry sword and retire in peace... thanks for the memories
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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This boxset contains what could turn out to be the final two Sharpe tales:
Sharpe's Challenge
As one of the other reviews said, none of us are getting any younger and this posed somewhat of a dilema for the series makers. This is set in India, which in the timeline of the books saw Sharpe there before the Napoleonic campaign - so fifteeen or so years before Waterloo. They had the choice of either replacing Sean Bean (which would likely be economic suicide) and sticking with the books or keeping him and re-working them. They chose the latter route of course and if you haven't read the books, you'll be very happy with the results. You'll also be happy that they have extended the running time to 2 and a quarter hours so that they can give more depth to the story rather than just purely focusing on the action scenes.
If you have read the books then the story line is a little painful as they have taken a mash-up of the first two books, Sharpe's Tiger and Sharpe's Triumph, set it 1799 and 1803 respectively. Because of this it is quite confusing as all the events are jumbled up when compared to the books.
Ultimately though, if you can put this aside, it does work as a piece of entertainment.
Sharpe's Peril
As with Sharpe's Challenge, this is a departure from the books taking them as purely ideas for the film. This works much better than Sharpe's Challenge as you aren't constantly being reminded bits of the books in the wrong order.
As with all the other Sharpe's it has plenty of action, drama and romance so won't disappoint.
One thing of note though, on the box the running time states that it is four hours long. It is actually two and a quarter hours; the other 100 minutes being a shorter version of the same film. For me at least, this was a bit of a waste of a second disk as while it speeded up the story a lot, it took too much away to be worthwhile.
Sharpe's Challenge
As one of the other reviews said, none of us are getting any younger and this posed somewhat of a dilema for the series makers. This is set in India, which in the timeline of the books saw Sharpe there before the Napoleonic campaign - so fifteeen or so years before Waterloo. They had the choice of either replacing Sean Bean (which would likely be economic suicide) and sticking with the books or keeping him and re-working them. They chose the latter route of course and if you haven't read the books, you'll be very happy with the results. You'll also be happy that they have extended the running time to 2 and a quarter hours so that they can give more depth to the story rather than just purely focusing on the action scenes.
If you have read the books then the story line is a little painful as they have taken a mash-up of the first two books, Sharpe's Tiger and Sharpe's Triumph, set it 1799 and 1803 respectively. Because of this it is quite confusing as all the events are jumbled up when compared to the books.
Ultimately though, if you can put this aside, it does work as a piece of entertainment.
Sharpe's Peril
As with Sharpe's Challenge, this is a departure from the books taking them as purely ideas for the film. This works much better than Sharpe's Challenge as you aren't constantly being reminded bits of the books in the wrong order.
As with all the other Sharpe's it has plenty of action, drama and romance so won't disappoint.
One thing of note though, on the box the running time states that it is four hours long. It is actually two and a quarter hours; the other 100 minutes being a shorter version of the same film. For me at least, this was a bit of a waste of a second disk as while it speeded up the story a lot, it took too much away to be worthwhile.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
a great challenge
These dvd's were two of the best we've ever seen, we have watched them a number of times. Both Sharpe and Harper are quite a bit older then in previous episodes but this is how... Read more
Published 23 days ago by Winnie Shakespear
Great addition
Great addition to the previos box set of the series. A must have if your a Sharpe fan. Good watch from start to finish
Published 1 month ago by Reedpep
Sean Bean
wife is a sean bean fan bought this for her and she was delighted with it(must admit quite like sean bean myself)
Published 5 months ago by Thomas Keenan
As 'Sharpe' as ever
I already had the original Sharpe DVD's and had recorded Challenge and Peril from the tv but lost Peril somewhere so when I saw the 2 dvd's as a boxed set I decided to complete my... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Peter Mayhew
Double Trouble
I bought this dvd for my father.The first occasion I was surprised to discover that instead of getting 2 different films in the boxset I received the same dvd twice although one... Read more
Published 8 months ago by artycolin
Not as good...
Sharpe's getting older and they moved him over to Bollywood. Okay, maybe not so much, but the whole indian vibe kind of ruined Sharpe for me. It's just not as epic. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Richard G. Monson
An excellent buy
I always wanted to buy these episodes in continuation of the original series, but it wasn't release in my country(India) on dvd, so i was looking for it on international websites. Read more
Published 10 months ago by RAHUL GARG
Awesome books and awesome DVD's
Lovingly recreated from Bernard Cornwell's books these two DVD's complete the series shown on TV. Sean Bean is completely believable as are all the actors. Read more
Published 11 months ago by A. J. W. Tungate
Superbly swashbuckling
We bought this item after watching all of the complete box set of the earlier 'Sharpe's' in the space of a week, and being left with the feeling that we wanted more... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Sinbad's mate
excellent boxset
fantastic boxset, I saw this when it first came out on the TV and to watch them again was great.
Published 16 months ago by Terry Keats
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