VividSimon Simply Perfect

Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

lasttimeisaw A binge watching of RED RIDING TRILOGY, three TV movies adapted from David Peace's RED RIDING QUARTET, where its second chapter 1977 is skipped. Directed by three different directors in three different formats: 1974 by Julian Jarrold in 16mm film, 1980 by James Marsh in 35mm film and 1983 by Anand Tucked with Red One digital camera, the trilogy forebodingly trawls into the organized crimes and police corruption in West Yorkshire through the prisms of three different protagonists while they are wrestling with a series of murder cases, and overall, it inspires to achieve a vérité similitude of the bleak milieu while sometimes being mired with its own navel- gazing, such as narrative banality (1974), over-calculated formality (1980) and poorly indicated flashback sequences (1983). Finally in 1983, Detective Inspector Maurice Jobson (Morrissey) , who appears in all three films, holds court in the final one, he is one of the corrupted, but his guilty conscience begins to catch up with him, after a new incident of a missing girl transpires, and he seeks help from a medium Mandy Wymer (Reeves), who evokes his buried memories pertain to his involvement in the investigation in 1974. Simultaneously, a paralleled plot-line introduces a thickset solicitor John Piggott (Addy), the son of a former compromised police officer, visits Michael Myshkin (Mays, a distressingly disturbing scene-stealer, makes great play between prevarication and innocence to the full) in the prison and tries to defend a wronged suspect of the current investigation, Leonard Cole (Kearns), who is Michael's best friend and the son of Reverent Marin Laws (Mullan), but fails due to the atrocious injustice. While, a male prostitute BJ (Sheehan), a pervasive existence in the trilogy, released from the jail and fetches a rifle on his way to vendetta, the three tributaries will converge in the home of Reverent Laws, to bring the seedy crime conspiracy into daylight in the end of the day, yet, the ultimate demise is far from satisfactory, the canker within the institution remains untouched, it is estimable to be so unwavering to expose the ugly truth, but the aftertaste is too disillusioned to purvey a balanced assimilation. Albeit there is no visible sign-posting in its time- frame jumps, which certainly impedes the viewing experience, the third one at least does a fair job to dot the i's and cross the t's. In a nutshell, RED RIDING trilogy is a juggernaut exposé of the society's underside and in retrospect, heralds some more forensic procedural output in UK's televisionary landscape, like THE FALL (2013-to date).

A_Different_Drummer Since it is possible I am one of only seven people on the planet who has made an effort to watch this trilogy OUTSIDE OF THE ORIGINAL BROADCAST TIME, voluntarily and without duress, and I have reviewed the two prior episodes on the IMDb, I will try to give you a taste of this final chapter. Not an easy task. The good news is that, of the 3, the feel and direction is the most assured, that is to say, the narrative (confusing as it is, AND IT IS!) moves along smartly and keeps the viewer busy. Which is a good thing, since things got so dark in the second instalment that the DVD sleeve came with the number of the local suicide hotline pre-printed. And buried deep beneath all the confusion and obfuscation (much of which is done to the viewer DELIBERATELY) there is a nice sub-theme of redemption for not just one but two of the central characters. Which is nice film-making and a bit of a treat. Also liked Mark Addy. I liked his comedy work on the other side of the pond (Still Standing) and thought he did brilliantly here in a serious dramatic role. That was the good news. The bad news is that, to even have a hope of understanding what is happening here, you need to watch the two episodes, which, as far as I know, is a prohibited act under the rules of the Geneva Convention.

Rodrigo Amaro Finally something really, really interesting came out of one of the films of this "Red Riding" series. Even dwelling on some known areas the plot in this third installment gives some surprises, some tension and some excitement the other flicks didn't have or struggled to make us interested. Finally connected the stories, revealed the answers for the mysteries and concluded beautifully. But "Red Riding Hood - In the Year of Our Lord 1983" wouldn't be a film of the franchise without confusing us a little bit. My problem with these "confusion" is that all of that is a mask to sound and look complicated but when you dig deep into the characters and situations you'll actually find an easier film to connect than most serial killer films really are. Without the journalist Eddie Dunford (only through one flashback) and the investigator of the previous film, this "Red Riding" has two main characters trying to solve the case involving the disappearance of little girls: it brings back detective Maurice Jobson (David Morrissey) and introduces John Piggott (Mark Addy), a lawyer representing the wrongfully accused of being the killer of some of these girls. When Piggott's on scene the movie develops very well but when Jobson segment is presented sometimes it works (now he's quite soft, not even dealing well with torture during interrogations of suspects) other times it doesn't (some of his dramatic moments aren't good enough to make you care about him, but it is most for the fact I can't stand the actor behind the role, an bad imitation of Liam Neeson). So here we have two goals: to find the real killer and the reasons behind it, and to release innocent people from jail. Again it's a movie about the crimes without the need of showing how they happen, but this time we have a more violent film than the two others (specially police's brutality and the final revelation behind the crimes).This one was far more intelligent than the previous film, it really created thrilling sequences, very surprising and I enjoyed a lot. It was less tiring than 1974 and 1980 parts. Mark Addy was brilliant here in a dramatic role, playing this dedicate lawyer. Compared with what Hollywood throws every single year this and the other "Red Riding" are precious pictures with great quality. It's a decent trilogy. 8/10

Leofwine_draca And finally the loose ends are tied up in the last part of the acclaimed RED RIDING trilogy. This time around, a low-rent lawyer and a cop with a conscience combine forces to expose the child killer who has been eluding police from the very beginning.I'm a sucker for a happy ending and this film gives us one - well, sort of one. I found the story punchier and although events become even darker - and more shocking, if that's even possible - there is hope, finally, in the full-on powerhouse ending.What a coup in casting Mark Addy as the sympathetic lead (he's usually typecast as lovable rolly-polly types since THE FULL MONTY back in the day)! David Morrissey is given a chance to shine, too, putting memories of BASIC INSTINCT 2 into the distant past. The series definitely ends on a high and it's nice to have some closure after everything that happened.