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Pluskylang Great Film overall

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Aiden Melton The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Prismark10 From the makers of Hustle which may have inspired Leverage a few years later in America.Now this is a combination of Leverage and Hustle (with many of the same visual tricks used.) Warren Brown plays a kind of a cop whose team takes down criminals and other assorted bad guys in a way the normal law enforcement agencies cannot.Each week a mysterious Gina McKee would hand over an Ipad containing a dossier of the latest target for the gang and each week Warren Brown would take the Ipad and fail to return it!The series will not be returning to the BBC because of low ratings. Where Hustle was sharp, entertaining and had a good team that gelled. This was bland, a bit boring and Warren Brown is no Adrian Lester and the rest of the team were no match for the Hustle gang.Maybe, this series should had waited for a few years whilst our memories of Hustle faded and they could had worked on the format a bit more and some better casting was needed.As it is this was average with little promise, hence no renewal.

benjamin_ashworth By Any Means tries to be clever using what the writers think are twist endings in each episode, but they fail to understand how twist endings actually work. Instead of planning ahead and weaving clues into the storyline, they have each episode meander around until the last five minutes where they suddenly show you a load of storyline that was previously missed out. An ending you stood no chance of seeing coming is then pulled out of a hat to a great fanfare of victory for the heroes. It's the laziest style of writing since the, "It was all a dream," ending.Whilst the idea of a police force that can set criminals up and give them a good hiding without worrying about the due process of collecting evidence or about human rights might seem like a good idea briefly, it's an insult to all that's just and decent. I can forgive it to some extent on the grounds that it's obviously just fantasy but it is set in the real world. It's not a mysterious future or a sci-fi reality or anything like that. It should, therefore, be believable and realistic.The characters also aren't likable. They betray those vulnerable people they are supposed to protect and, in some cases, get them killed in acts of violence that are shocking for the sake of it and, instead of just showing how bad the bad guys are, show how weak the good guys are.The BBC has invested in far better written dramas in the past and can still show some good stuff now. There are writers out there who can put together a genuinely well thought out plot. It needs to take a long hard look at what it's spending its money on and provide something that gives people's minds a workout instead of "brain out" television that people who don't want to think about what they're watching believe is clever because they don't quite get it.

ianlouisiana Headed by a warm maternal Miss G.Mckee(there's a sentence I never thought I'd write)a group of plucky schoolchildren straight from CBBC drama dept.bring "justice" to those previously denied it. Take stuffy repressed Middle -England as portrayed by Enid Blyton and give it an "Edgy,urban,gritty"spin,take away the posh accents and the "horribly white"environment and you have what 2013 looks like in the imaginations of the Highate Mafia. As a change from helping old ladies to cross the road,our little boy and girl scouts bring down those nasty men the silly bumbling constable can't catch.Those of you old enough can imagine Mr George Woodbridge huffing and puffing along a leafy Surrey lane wiping his brow as Wiliam Brown and the Outlaws run off having broken the vicarage window with a catapult. Add another ten minutes to the show so how these clever - clever smug youngsters managed to snare their prey which has been obvious all along and indulge in some creaky camera angles that have been a cliché since "The cabinet of Dr Caligari" and lo and behold,"By any means" appears on our screen. As the show is not meant to be serious there's no point in debating the moral issues of due legal process,privacy laws,phone hacking etc. Just say "News International" would bite its own hand off to employ the lot of them.

Indru Maiorescu Yes, honestly, who pays these guys to have them say the show is bad? I want a cut, because otherwise I'm giving it at least 7 stars.I felt the need to come here and post this review after I saw that literally everybody on this page gave it no more than 2 stars. Come on people, how close-minded can you be???The show is like a British version of Leverage, and it is great and funny. Charismatic actors, good solid scripts (it ain't Doctor Who, but it does a very good job) and a very nice atmosphere make from this recipe a very entertaining series.Disregard the people crushing it with their comments. They're just very bored people who probably love to watch soaps and stuff.