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  • Actors: Robert Carlyle, Max Beesley, Benedict Cumberbatch, Anamaria Marinca, Geraldine James
  • Directors: Iain B. MacDonald
  • Format: PAL
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Universal Pictures UK
  • DVD Release Date: 10 Mar 2008
  • Run Time: 309 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000YGHBZW
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 9,540 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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After four years abroad, Stephen Ezard (Benedict Cumberbatch, Atonement) returns to London for his brother Michael's (Max Beesley, Hotel Babylon) funeral. Following a major terrorist attack, Britain has become a security state and U.K. citizens have their movements tracked by the government. Stephen finds himself in the midst of a conspiracy as he sets out to discover what really happened to his brother.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A significant programme - spoilt by production techniques, 19 Mar 2008
By W. Hutchinson "whutchin2" (Perth, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This movie has a relevant message. It is a great story with a significant conclusion and well worth watching. It covers many issues but the most significant are the intrusion into individuals' privacy and the abuse of the data of them, and a sub-theme of the power of an agency that can cut off an individual's access to the `network', e.g. ATM, etc. It makes a compelling argument against the concept of all embracing ID cards and the underlying linking of databases. This is a really significant movie with a thoughtful and thought inducing ending.
However, the story and its message is one thing; the way the film was produced is another. It is a serious theme with social relevance. However, the producers obviously thought it would be better as an action comic book programme for the lowest common denominator. The acting is a good but bit wooden and extreme. So rather than being in the mode of "Smiley's People" or even "State of Play", it is more like "Batman" it seems to use contemporary production techniques where the audience is treated as idiots with a retention span of about 30 seconds. Whilst some films need to be made like that to pander to those that need rap music in every scene, it is inappropriate with this story. It is the BBC desperately trying to make significant programme accessible to everyone, which it never does because the more cerebral people are not content to watch trivial films or at least those that use these techniques to supposedly keep your attention. I doubt if those for whom these techniques are geared would sit through the five episodes of this programme anyway.
The programme seems to have been made for the soundtrack rather than the other way around. Even scene is dominated by excessive and inappropriate noises: wailing woman, bells, Jewish type music (in a scene in Afghanistan!), the ubiquitous drums to denote a chase (even when there was not one), violins, etc. etc. It is a bit like a school play with everyone making noises in the background for effect - banging tambourines, playing violins in the poignant bit, etc. In this case it is the sound technicians with their synthesisers and database of sounds. However, modern movie making and good acting need none of this unless, of course, the acting or story line is poor - neither was true here.
That particular aspect of this movie really stopped me enjoying it (or sometimes even following the story line). The BBC seemed to have used these techniques a lot recently, for instance in "The Grid" or `The Enemy Within", but they add nothing and, in my personal opinion, actually detract from the story. An example, the main character uses a retinal scanner (boom - a drum crash - why?), a character walks into a pub (another drum crash), a character runs up to a flat (drum music), a woman dies is bed (wailing woman, bells, and the kitchen sink!) in fact any time something happens there is (An apparently compulsory) noise of some type - why? The background noises (not really music) seem to be there because the producers appear to think loud noise is required in almost every scene. This really cheapens the programme - it treats the viewer as an idiot. Maybe it is the `Age of Noise' but it is killing classy film making - not every film needs to be made for 13 year olds.
Nevertheless, it was interesting, if annoying, to watch. But BBC please change your formula for this genre - you do them quite well except for the sound effects. The one benefit of all the jarring noise is that I could not watch more than one episode without a break, and when a rare scene did not have any background noise, the serene quiet made the programme easy and pleasurable to watch.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointment, 11 Mar 2009
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There is a good drama to be made out of the loss of privacy in contemporary Britain and the rise of the surveillance society. This definitely isn't it. The first part is quite intriguing but it is down hill all the way after this as the number of unbelievable characters behaving in an unbelievable way build up. A good cast and good visuals are wasted - as would your money be if you purchase this. Rent (if you must) or avoid.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A Crucial Warning, 19 Jul 2009
Okay, so The Last Enemy is about to air on the ABC in Australia for the first time tonight (July 19, 2010. Hence why I chose to watch this on DVD rather than wait for a TV studio to pick it up)and the reviews have not been that keen. One reviewer stated that the characters are rather dull just as most British characters are and that the storyline itself was rather far fetched. Hmmm, were they really thinking about what they were watching and why they were watching it? The characters are classically British - interesting and powerful in a realistic sense. But secondly, to think that the Big Brother phenomenon was an idea that originated from a reality TV show and therefore cannot possibly be plausible, is thinking rather lightly, to say the least. The scary thing about this show's setting, as is the case with any dystopian, totalitarian society, is that the story acts as a serious warning for those in positions of power. While The Last Enemy is categorically pre-totalitarian, that is where the underlying messages really lie. Are the people who have such power actually going to watch something like this and pay attention to the need for societies to remain humanist? Yes, the storyline is not original; there are shades of 1984 and The Handmaid's Tale here, but what makes The Last Enemy so great is that its narrative structure fits in with any classical sci-fi genre that has been remoulded to fit the time: the fear of viruses is an obvious current social anxiety as is the ethinically based discriminatory measures a western society will take to protect its own cultural agendas. So,is there a need to tell the story again because we just don't get it yet?
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1.0 out of 5 stars dreadful
This was the most awful series I have watched, a waste of the talents of
Robert Carlyle and David Harewood.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good series
I watched this on bbc1, thought it was great. Bought for my brother in laws christmas, great dvd.
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