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Cliché-ridden La Plante thriller more (2 total)Cast
(Credited cast) | Kelly Reilly | ... | DC Anna Travis |
 | Ciarán Hinds | ... | DCI Langton |
 | Jason Durr | ... | Alan Daniels |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
 | Jill Baker | ... | Mrs Kenworth |
| Amy Bayliss | ... | Mary Murphy |
| Annette Bentley | ... | Teresa Booth |
| Deborah Brian | ... | Lillian Duffy |
| Simon Butteriss | ... | Transvestite Singer |
| Daniel Caltagirone | ... | DS Paul Barolli |
 | Nadia Cameron-Blakey | ... | Commander Jane Leigh |
| Aine Carlin | ... | Passerby / Press |
 | Annie Cooper | ... | Beryl Villiers |
 | Shaun Dingwall | ... | DI Lewis |
 | Eunice Freitas | ||
| Lindzi Germain | ... | Kathleen Keegan |
| Holly Grainger | ... | Sharon Bilkin |
| Martin Herdman | ... | DCI Hudson |
| Michelle Holmes | ... | DC Barbara Maddox |
| Thusitha Jayasundera | ... | Veronica Malins |
| Amanda Lawrence | ... | Joan Faulkland |
| James Leece | ... | Ballet Dancer |
| Nicholas Le Prevost | ... | Edmund Radcliff |
| Joe Marsh | ... | DC Hollen |
| Terry O'Neill | ... | Doorman |
 | Emma Pollard | ... | Melissa |
| Anneika Rose | ... | DS Jones |
 | Jack Ryan | ... | Young Anthony Duffy |
| John Savident | ... | Barry Southwood |
| Ista Stepanov | ... | Ballet Dancer |
| Malcolm Storry | ... | John McDowell |
| Sarah Vipond | ... | Fan in restaurant |
| Susie Ann Watkins | ... | Barbara Whittle |
| June Watson | ... | Mrs Morgan |
| Sian Webber | ... | Mrs Stephens |
| Debora Weston | ... | Chat Show Host |
| Celia Williams | ... | Make-up Artist |
 | Chris Wilson | ... | Mr. Stephens - Melissa's Father |
| Angus Wright | ... | Michael Parks |
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I do like a good TV thriller - "Wire In The Blood", James Nesbitt's "Murphy's Law", Sam Ryan-era "Silent Witness" and of course "Inspector Morse" all spring to mind, but this hackneyed "Junior Prime Suspect" re-write failed to overcome its stereotypical characterisation and (with one exception) by-numbers acting to leave a lasting impression.
The plot is very second-hand to these eyes with Kelly Reilly bringing a Jennifer Aniston-type weight (i.e. none at all) to her part following in the big footsteps of her late cop dad, all high-heels and pancake make-up and how she convinces big bad lecherous superior Ciaran Hinds that she can do the job and become "one of the boys".
I for one was sorry to see Hinds reduced to this one-dimensional role, the typical high-ranking chauvinist "guvnor" identifiable from any number of previous LaPlante dramas, who hits on his junior female officer and expects the older females to run after him bringing him tea and sandwiches (no tomatoes!).
You at first think you're watching a whodunit but after you realise there are no other potential suspects on show and remember LaPlante's MO, you merely await the unravelling of abused child-cum famous actor-cum split-personality psychopath at the hands of the doe-eyed Lewis, although said breakdown is superbly conveyed in broad Mancunian by an excellent Jason Durr.
That performance apart this came across to me as very much formulaic fare, with the by now over-familiar LaPlante techniques of split-screen depiction, unimaginative flashback inserting and undramatic cross-cutting of scenes, dumbed down for mass consumption by a writer long overdue an attack of originality.