Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

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

blanche-2 "Keen Eddie" was a sort-lived TV series, set in Britain and starring the hunky Mark Valley of Boston Legal and several other series. It also stars Sienna Miller, Julian Rhind-Tutt, and Colin Salmon, familiar to all fans of the Helen Mirren "Prime Suspect." Eddie (Valley) is an American detective assigned to Scotland Yard, where his out of the box maneuvers annoy his supervisor (Salmon). His partner (Rhind-Tutt) is a long-haired, solemn-faced guy who likes sex clubs; and Eddie's flatmate -- she's the landlady's daughter (Miller) is bothered by his presence and the presence of his dog, Pete.This is such a terrific show -- I loved it when it was on the air, and now I'm enjoying it on Netflix since I didn't see all the episodes. I love the characters, the acting, the stories, the humor, and the British setting. Valley is such an attractive man and so good, I have no idea why the series didn't stay on the air.There's a technique used in the editing - I'm sure there's a name for it - where there are split second images of something earlier in the episode, or something the character is thinking. Seeing it week to week, it's no problem, but watching it like I am, one after the other, it can give one a headache. That's my only complaint.I have no idea why a series that was so well-done couldn't last on American television. In thinking about it, I guess that's the problem -- it was too well done and not dummied down enough, I guess.

liquidcelluloid-1 Network: Fox; Genre: Crime/Mystery, Comedy; Content Rating: TV-PG (for some violence); Available: reruns on Sleuth; Perspective: Contemporary (star range: 1 - 4); Seasons Reviewed: Complete Series (1 season)Having the unfortunate luck to debut on Fox during the reality series craze/ quality TV massacre that occurred under Gail Berman's watch during the early 00s, can't quite explain "Keen Eddie's" short life. This is one of those shows that wouldn't have made it anyway. It's too original, too different, too quirky, too oddball to ever catch fire with a TV audience. It's something of a minor miracle that "Keen Eddie" snuck past the stick-in-the-mud network and got on the air to begin with.When a drug bust goes horribly wrong under the eye of New York cop Eddie Arlette (Mark Valley, "Boston Legal", though perfectly cast here), he is sent to follow the drugs across the pond, where he takes a detective job at Scotland Yard. Eddie takes up residence in a flat and quickly finds himself at bickering odds with Fiona (Sienna Miller) who hates Eddie and is convinced the flat belongs to her. And get this, they actually don't get together. Eddie has a playboy partner played like the gullible dweeb you wouldn't expect to be the playboy partner in Pippin (Julian Rind-Tutt). In true cop series fashion, Eddie has a tough captain (Colin Salmon, Resident Evil) and his pension for cigars is a quirk like everyone's on the show. "Keen Eddie" is a crime series with an uncommon attention to character.Eddie's London experience is filled with colorful characters from two guys who have divided their pub in half arguing over whether it should be Irish or American or a mob boss who bases the actions of himself and his henchmen on a complete faith in astrology. Then there is the matter of the captain's secretary, whom Eddie calls Miss Moneypenny (a smoking Rachael Buckley) who may or may not be hitting on Eddie in the show's weirdest and funniest running gag. I love the women on the show. Fiona has her own life with her own story lines. Moneypenny is a sex joke that is actually funny. They aren't just around to prop up the guys.The mysteries are clever. Not knock-you-out clever. No big twists. But also, thank God, no "CSI" pretension. Plus, to be perfectly honest here, unlike with any character on the "CSI" and "Law & Order" franchises, I watch "Keen Eddie" and actually get a warm, comforting sense from this character. There is crime in the world, theft, kidnapping, murder, but there is also this hard-boiled dogged cop who acts like a goof and spouts a readily quotable catch phrase who will chase down the bad guys and bring them to justice. And we'd better be glad he's out there. Damn glad. He's Eddie, how do you like him now? There are a few uneven tonal shifts in the show, many times getting too dramatic when it plays best as a wacky screwball ensemble. It feels too long at an hour, often loosing steam in the final act when it should really be going for zany broke. The pilot tries to hard to impress, but if TV has taught me anything it's that a Pilot (if not written by Bryan Fuller) is no sign of future quality. The 2nd to last episode, "Keeping up Appearances" is quite funny. In it, Eddie inherits a Bentley and a live-in driver but the car keeps getting stolen by the same guy. As is common, the show gets better the more it loosens up.It should also be mentioned how overdirected and hyper-stylized "Keen" is. In an effort to look like a Guy Ritchie movie (it did debut pre-Edgar Wright) the show is chopped up with unnecessary fast forwards, flashbacks, quick cuts, top-down tilt shots and just about every other goofy film school trick you can imagine.In one episode Eddie is egged on by the cops at Scotland Yard to get in there with a perp and give him a good old fashioned American interrogation - clearly inspired by Vic Mackey and Jack Bauer. I kind of wish "Keen Eddie" delved a bit into that more: the British perception of Americans by American pop culture. Because the show itself is something of a funhouse mirror of how American view the Brits. What a fun extra layer this had been to an already full series."Keen Eddie" is a fun, likable show with a cast of characters unlike any on American television. Worth a watch if you can find it.* * ½ / 4

tomulrich249 I agree that Keen Eddie was amazing. The sophistication, Eddie's ability or lack to coalesce with this coworkers. He just keeps irritating people in a most amiable way. His relationship with Fiona was too funny. The hate/hate/love/hate relationship between then along with the occasional sexual tension and never to be realized unrequited love aspect was quite amusing.FOX has to cancel anything that they don't have the hutzpah to promote. Keen Eddie would have been a blockbuster on nearly any other network. Though I must admit, I felt like I was the only one watching at times. Keen Eddie was full of so many things that I enjoy watching in the American blockhead on the English soil.

evil-angel-1 It was FOX network's most stupid decision ever. I hate it that they keep producing all these silly reality shows and cancel good shows. Eddie had a great plot, a nice setting, well-defined characters, and quality actors. It was a show that had a future. In a scale of 1-10, Keen Eddie was an 11!