Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

jmvscotland It's no surprise that just about everyone, in reviewing this TV mini-series, draws the very obvious parallel to "Brief Encounter". BE is still a wonderful movie but, by today's standards, it does look quite dated and, frankly, a little bit silly with its wistful looks and its secretive suggestion of illicit sex going nowhere. No surprise also therefore that a decision was made to make an updated version of that classic with, in many ways, its far more believable (but in many ways flawed) lead characters. This mini-series is wonderful and only the end lets it down.Dare I suggest that there's barely a married man alive at any time who didn't feel precisely the way Carl felt about Sally. It's a story as old as marriage itself. The romance was tender and very believable, the affair was sweet and the love was obviously genuine. SO, WHY THEN, is it never possible, in a tale such as this one, for the two characters who share the sweet romance and the love they feel to share a life together as Carl and Sally probably should have done? The final scenes with Carl back with his family and Sally in a relationship with someone other than the child's father were really not quite believable and, for me at least, were a decided let-down.It's a very fine mini-series but it is flawed only in the ending of the story it tells. It's rewarding for most of its length but, for me, a slight disappointment in the conclusion.JMV

leplatypus Sure, there's no paranormal here but i feel the same zen lesson about life: in a way, it says that big happy moments come and go as the bad and nasty ones ; everything changes, nothing lasts forever and that's why we must enjoy the moment, every little second… I didn't expect the movie to be this as i watched it for the English way of commuting and compare it with my life… as expected, London is a much better area than Paris : all is clean, modern or taken care while Paris is tidy, full of tags, over-used with old technology ! In addition, the romance even if it's cheating is engaging as it's the meeting of two lost souls : the young woman is afraid to found her family and the old guy has already built his own and feels maybe not empty but is stunned by this only being that ! The dialogs are full of truth and accurate descriptions of that life spleen. At last, the cast is really good and it's a welcome change from overpaid, repetitive and boring Hollywood stars !

ianlouisiana Just how far have we come in the 60 - odd years since dear Trevor and Celia wanted to do it but didn't?There's certainly very little holding back Miss S.Smith and Mr D.Morrisey from tumbling into bed together in comparatively short order.He is married,she "in a relationship" as the appalling modern term has it,but neither is prepared to step back from the brink although they cannot truly imagine that their escalating affair will go undetected. It truly is a case of "All for love - or The World well lost"for them at least until they take a reality check in a remote seaside cottage and then decide their affair is too hot not to cool down - as Mr Cole Porter had it. "The 7.39" marks the progress from dislike to mild flirtation to full - on intoxication courtesy of Network Rail and at first it seems like it is all good amusing banter,then shared coffee,then,well,you can fill in the rest. Ms Smith's LIL is a possessive gym - bunny with all his brains in his trousers while Mr Morrisey is married to the sublime Miss O.Coleman and has two smart and well -adjusted teenage children(how rare for a TV family). One might think that of the two he had the most to lose,but it is he who does most of the pushing. When their secret comes out Miss Coleman gives him a searing flea in his ear and sends him on his way. All this is complicated by the fact that Miss Smith finds she is pregnant,she assures Mr Morrisey by her LIL. Miss Coleman forgives her erring husband and he is back in the bosom of his family,presumably sadder but wiser. In the last scene we see that Ms Smith,too,has moved on. Absolutely nothing new,nothing edgy,gritty or urban occurs during "The 7.39"but it is well - made,superbly acted and a slice of early 21st century social comment as much as its predecessor was of the early post - war years.

MattyGibbs This is a drama about two people who have a chance meeting on a train. Both are with other people and seemingly happy but the attraction between them is too strong to resist. It follows their relationship from the platonic to the inevitable fallout from the decisions they take. In other hands this could have been a corny and cheesy mess however a brilliant cast and good direction means this is nothing but a success. It moves along at a good pace and never gets boring. I also liked the fact that it didn't paint the adulterers as awful people just normal people in a difficult situation.The main cast are all top rate actors and they don't disappoint. David Morrissey is great as the guilty husband, the fantastic Sheridan Smith is beguiling as the younger woman and Olivia Colman superb as the spurned wife. The 7.39 is a very good drama and well worth watching.