Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Elliotb-butler18 I never started watching this until last year and i absolutely loved it so i bought the box set for £20 from ASDA. I am 15 but i love the 1980s very much. I love the music, the fashion and the era itself. I also then watch Life on Mars and i equally loved it. DCI Gene Hunt is one of the most iconic TV detectives of all time. I don't think i have ever seen anyone like him and Phillip Glenister plays him absolutely fantastically. The final scenes i found moving as Chris, Ray, Shaz and Alex all say goodbye to Gene Hunt before they all pass off into heaven. The plot at the end i also thought was completely brilliant as the idea that there are 2 different worlds in which when police officers die or are severely injured end up in this other world in which Gene Hunt is there to pass the people into heaven. This is a brilliant show with a brilliant storyline and ending all in all 100% class.

Sulla-2 I admit to really enjoying both programmes and I think that some fans of Life on Mars are being a bit silly.I never really liked Ray in Life on Mars as I found him too officious. He mellows wonderfully in Ashes to Ashes.I confess to being a big fan of Keely Hawes so I was always going to love Alex Drake. It's a wonderful cast and a most satisfactory ending which answers all questions.We now also now why it's set in the 70's and 80's. It follows Gene Hunt as he ages. He was a young PC in 1953 and a DCI in the 70's and 80's I guess that's he now a very old Superintendent.

sinful-2 Well I had it as my only entertainment while I was sick so I thought lets see what it is.Start is great with an interesting time replacement.Great to see a 80 series I enjoyed that and would have been much more interested in pure 80 series instead of a bad handled time dilemma. Only way it really is handled is by making a white clown run around and absurd comments that would have gotten any police officer fired. Why make a time dilemma if you don't want to handle it anyway?Some characters are great but main person is doubtful really. The story tells she should be a person with psychological insight, but instead she is is self righteous, self centered, and not listening to anyone else. In fact her chief that is a bit of a brute seems far more thinking at times.

jhsteel I agree with those who say that Ashes to Ashes (or A2A as we fans call it) is different from Life on Mars (LOM), but that has several explanations. Firstly, it is set in the 1980s, and it is written in the spirit of 1980s cop shows, with fashion, glamorous shots and set pieces, etc. Secondly, the central hero is female and her perspective on life is different from Sam Tyler's. She also knows more, having read Sam's notes about his time in Gene Hunt's world in 1973.However, it still has the unexpectedness and the central mystery of its predecessor, so that we are always wanting to know why Alex is stuck in 1981 and how and if she will get back to 2008. And of course, it has the fabulous Gene Hunt who comes into his own in this series. He is still moody and magnificent, and Philip Glenister has created a character with such charisma that I can't stop watching him. All the continuing characters are wonderful, and so are the new ones; Shaz and Viv in particular. Sam Tyler in LOM was intense, driven and edgy, and the darkness and gritty nature of 1970s style cop shows was well represented in LOM. This is equally great, but it's a different animal. I love both shows and I am really looking forward to the next series of A2A. The things that were revealed about Alex's past create new mysteries that need to be solved, so I am hoping that we will find out more. The most original aspect of both LOM and A2A is the central premise that someone can visit another time frame, whether real or imagined, and experience life there, while their body in "real life" is in a coma or near to death. It's a fascinating idea that has a lot of scope, and since it is a fantasy, anything can happen. The identity of Gene Hunt is open to debate - who is he really? I hope that we find out a lot more about this compelling character in the future. British TV at its best. Oh, and I also love 1980s music - really!