MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

ChampDavSlim The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Roman Sampson One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Walter Sloane Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

seanferguson13 As a lawyer, I tried to tell myself it was the oversimplified clichéd plots that are repeatedly stuffed into the "excitement box" of a courtroom until they are misshapen. Endlessly showing good versus evil in a system where sadly black and white rarely exist and there are a billion shades of gray. Couple this with the incorrect procedures and law. But no that wasn't it.Was it my atheism? Did I object to the winged angels flying down and doing battle with terribly frightful evil on a weekly basis as a further reinforcement of outdated and unscientific beliefs among young audiences? No, it wasn't that either.The setting then? Bland, mechanical story lines? Truly awful acting? (To be fair there are some good performances). No.What got me, was that someone was trying to sell this to audiences as entertainment. A prime time slot no less. I would still have grimaced if it was the first attempt at a foray into programme creation by a Year 11 media student.This programme is as bad as it gets. I may even go as far as to say it represents the final nail in the cultural and creative decline of our society.It's sad that a TV show can make a 26 year old think this way, but it did. I may throw my TV away now.

Loz8 I admit it, I enjoy Eternal Law an ungodly amount every single week. The episodic plots are rarely good. The occasional weekly supporting actor can be atrocious. There are some dodgy special effects.But the show has heart. It has a beguiling sense of optimism, hope, and the belief that love - while painful - is worthwhile. The show doesn't take itself seriously at all. It knows it is ridiculous. It's not trying to be Drama. The angel lawyers have gigantic wings that suddenly appear in scenes, with very little rhyme or reason. There are scenes in which angel lawyers smoke cigars on top of York Minster with their wings unfurled! But, and this is important, whilst the cheese is strong with this one, there are also a lot of balancing scenes. There are some good, tasty water crackers being used as a base for the cheese (with maybe a bit of pepper, if that's your thing) so that the taste isn't all boursin.I adore all of the characters, who are well-rounded, with complex motivations and understandings. This is including the villain of the piece, Richard, who is a fallen angel, rather menacing, and yet completely hilarious every second he's on screen. There are compelling dynamics between the leads, not to mention some fantastic dialogue (after the pilot, which still had stellar lines such as "What happens if we get shot in this world?"/"Hurts to buggery.") Zak has epic angelpain, yet still manages to be wise and witty. Tom is adorably confused and on the steep learning curve that is life. Mrs Sheringham is supportive yet tortured. Hannah is oddly compelled to the craziness that is Zak Gist and his emotional temperature control of doom. It's all golden.And it isn't merely the characters I have fun with. Apart from the somewhat dodgy SFX on occasion the show is shot beautifully, with interesting yet not jarring camera-work and York shown from every stunning vantage-point. The music and credits are similarly quality work.I am very much looking forward to buying the DVDs. And whilst I doubt there will be a second series, I will jump for joy if there is one. Eternal Law makes me happy. It isn't High Art, but that doesn't mean it isn't good. It is, in its own, special, way. When it's good, it's wonderful, when it's bad, it's laughable. But I am never, ever bored.

eve_dolluk Its maybe too early to judge but so far so ......The premise for the show is that Angels come down from... wherever and become Lawyers. Mr Gist is the experience Angel/Lawyer who is blooding in young inexperienced Mr Greening as it is his first time on earth. That basically sets the dynamics of the show, there are Angel rules that are mentioned and these are quickly broken. There are Fallen Angels who play the bad guys also in this case Mr Pembroke. We then have Mrs Sheringham who appears to be the Angels boss on Earth and Mr M who appears to be the main man upstairs. All very basic stuff so far. Upon landing on earth they soon find themselves in the middle of a shooting and therefore ( for reasons unknown ) become directly involved as Lawyers for the case. There is also a mystery woman called Hannah English who for again reasons unknown gets involved in the shooting and there is some sort of past between her and Mr Gist. I don't want to give much more away than that and it all happens within the first 10 mins so I'm not giving to much away. Overall I found the show to be whimsical at best, the mystery surrounding the case is obvious within 10 minutes and the rest of the show is more about setting the foundations for the series. The problem for me is what is it supposed to be. There was little mystery or suspense that you normally find with a courtroom drama. There was little drama or humour ( did it even try ). The acting was average from the main characters and awful from some of the minor characters. The setting for the show seems to be a small town somewhere in the south of England out in the sticks. Everything in the show was unoriginal and nothing new and seemed like a mish mash of everything we have seen before relating to the subject of Angels. I understand its early days but as an opener it may have just lost half its potential audience, there was really not enough in this first episode to keep you interested. It may develop into a good series but I've already lost interest, I'll give the second episode a go to see if it improves but I can't see it. The entire dynamics would have to change a great deal to make this even remotely interesting. I am glad I Sky plussed it and watched Public Enemies instead on BBC1 which is a much better show.

charleshunt257 Episode 1 was appalling: clumsy dialogue; unbelievable plot; bad acting - even from Sam West; not a sign of a policeman anywhere, even when somebody is shooting on the crowd from the top of the Mansion House (where the Lord Mayor lives); apparent murderer defended by two angels and prosecuted by a devil, and let out of the court unsupervised when his daughter starts shooting out the courtroom windows with the rifle that should have been Exhibit A in the trial... etc etc The cardboard characters that the mostly highly competent actors were meant to represent were totally unengaging and unbelievable. Even the brawls outside (some of York's posher) pubs were amateurish. Doesn't augur well for the rest of the series.Interesting to learn that God (Mr Mountjoy) has wings, though.