FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

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

SnoopyStyle Supt. Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) is sent up north. She witnesses an organized thieve ring. The kids she talks to are cynical. Drug mule Nazir is killed and Tennison has a case. The Street is the leader of the drug gang and he's immediately the prime suspect. He sees himself as the celebrity ruler and blessed constantly escaping prosecution. He's not the killer and tries to find the killer himself as a gang war looms. DC Henry Adeliyeka, DI Devanney, and DS Rankine are the main investigators for Tennison who starts sleeping with the married boss. Local kid Campbell Lafferty comes in and confesses to the shooting.The franchise is going back to the extended episode which ends up with quite a bit of filler. This could easily be turned back to the previous two hour slot. Julia Lane and David O'Hara are great supporting actors in this. There is always Mirren. Steven Mackintosh plays The Street a little over the top. There are scarier ways to play the character. Overall, this is solid Prime Suspect but a little stretched.

Rusty Morris What can I say, one of my favorite of the 7 series, along with 1 and 3. I've always told everyone I knew, being an American, that the reason I've never been able to stand American TV (Aside from Sci-fi shows) Is because of just a few shows as standards across almost every genre. In the Crime Genre, again, Britain takes the cake, the crown and every prize in-between. Prime Suspect, Cracker and Wire in the Blood set a standard for criminal drama unmatched by anything anywhere on earth.PS 5, is once again a juggernaut of engaging drama, tension and expert weaving of both overt and subtle story lines. Helen as usual is "Prime", I did miss the absence of many of the standard team-mates I had come to admire in the first 4 series. But this new team stood the test, as always, with varied personalities that made me wish the series was 2000 minutes instead of 200.And what's to say about "The Street"...not since J.R. Ewing (Back when I was a teen) have I found myself so enamored with darkness, he is such a hateful psycho that repulses, yet one can't help but be attracted to his power and charisma, (as guilty as that makes one feel). He's pretty fit in appearance as well. The fact that the series makes clear, though so subtle in nature that one hardly notices, that on top of everything else. He's Gay. Making (At least for Gay guys anyway) the whole love/hate thing even more powerful. Adding more to the already tense and fulfilling series.Along with Cracker and Wire In The Blood, and with a few other shows of other genres. Americans have to pay out the backside for these shows, I paid a huge amount for the complete 7 series DVD box set. But It was, as with the others, worth every penny.In conclusion, one has to say, that no one who considers themselves a collector of phenomenal cinema, especially if you're a crime series buff, should be without this series in their library. Bravo, Brava, and I only wish they'd made 40 of these series instead of 7 because I could never ever get enough.

paudie Prime Suspect 4 was a bit of a mixed bag so it is great to report that PS5 is of a very high standard.Having blotted her copybook with the top brass in the Metropolitan Police force DCI Tennison finds herself in Manchester and before long is trying to solve a gangland murder in a flat complex. Suspects are hard to come by but she is convinced a local drug baron is involved somehow.I prefer the longer format as it allows some lengthy scenes where Tennison and her team of detectives try to get information from a suspect or a witness. Tennison is well able to play good cop and bad cop, sometimes in the same interview! She is also not afraid to show her sympathy for innocent victims and their families and her contempt for the criminal and the corrupt. She also has to deal with the varied personalities of her new team of detectives.Top quality criminal drama yet again from the Prime Suspect series.

George Parker "Prime Suspect 4" continues the exploits of the inscrutable and dogged seeker of truth and justice, Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison; the first of three miniseries (PS4, PS5, & PS6) with the notable absence of founding writer Lynda La Plante from the credits. Imbued with the same gritty reality of the first three series, the second three series pit Tennison against the forces of evil while coping with middle age, loneliness, indiscretions, a host of personal and professional problems, and resolutions which are sometimes less than ideal. PS4 conjures two stories while PS5 & PS6 are single stories which find Tennison seeking justice on behalf of the brutally wronged while waging war against institutions which are willing to sacrifice the interests of her victims for those of a greater good. In other words, to prevail, Tennison must overcome both evil and good forces, something which makes the always gray scenarios of the PS series yet grayer and the Tennison wars as much a matter of principle as of finding murderers. Very good stuff which only gets better from series to series. (B+)