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"Rebus" Black and Blue (2000)
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26 April 2000
(Season 1, Episode 1)
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The first of the REBUS programs introduces the Scottish Detective Inspector John Rebus as he untangles...
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Mediocre
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(Episode Cast overview, first billed only) | John Hannah | ... | DI John Rebus |
 | Jim Norton | ... | Ryan Slocum (The Preacher) |
| Ewan Stewart | ... | DI Morton |
 | Sara Stewart | ... | DCI Gill Templer |
| Joanna Roth | ... | Eve Kendall |
| Stuart Hepburn | ... | D Supt McCaskill |
| Gayanne Potter | ... | DS Siobhan Clarke |
| Clare McCarron | ... | Angie Riddell |
| David Lyon | ... | Lawson Geddes |
| Robert McIntosh | ... | Lenny Spaven |
| Lewis Howden | ... | DI Ormond |
| Fish | ... | Barry Judd |
| Jenny Foulds | ... | Joanne McKenzie |
| Stevie Hannan | ... | Paul Martin (The Disciple) |
| David Gallagher | ... | D Supt Grogan |
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Followed by "Rebus: Fleshmarket Close (#2.2)" (2006)
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Black and Blue is possibly the weakest of the Rebus novels. That is mainly the case because the original murder series is never really investigated and the focus is on the copycat murder which also remains superficial. The novels finishes with too many lose ends. So it was not the best choice for the first adaptation. John Hannah is a convincing Rebus, just the way I imagined him. Rebus' moods, his drinking problems and depressions are really very well depicted and perfectly acted by Hannah and there certainly is a violent and dark streak to him. The story however is fairly weak. We learn nothing about the motives of either murderer- they just do it. That makes the film fairly superficial. It's not that both murderers are flat characters, we just never learn anything about them. It has to be said though that the ending is neater than in the book. All in all, it's a sequence of events that just happen. It's dark but not particularly exciting. Siobhan Clarke becomes a minor character and the chemistry between them is not visible. To some extent that is due to Rebus' prostitute friend who is actually not in the book.