Good question in my summary.
There a few reasons & here are some.
It is a 3 hour 2 part television movie made my BBC. BBC film are usually very good & I usually love them.
I am not familiar with PD James the author of the novel that the mini-series is based on.
To me it seemed one had to be familiar with the Detective in charge & the other police personnel, to understand some of the goings on.
The MAIN gripe I have is the editing, many scenes started & about 10 seconds later they went to the next scene.
The acting by all seemed competent & the production values were good. I did expect better from BBC. the cast is all BBC actors who I am unfamiliar with.
One more point,There were hardly any characters that I really liked, the ones I did like did not have large enough scenes and that included a major suspect.
Ratings: **1/2 (out of 4) 73 points (out of 100) IMDb 6 (out of 10)
There a few reasons & here are some.
It is a 3 hour 2 part television movie made my BBC. BBC film are usually very good & I usually love them.
I am not familiar with PD James the author of the novel that the mini-series is based on.
To me it seemed one had to be familiar with the Detective in charge & the other police personnel, to understand some of the goings on.
The MAIN gripe I have is the editing, many scenes started & about 10 seconds later they went to the next scene.
The acting by all seemed competent & the production values were good. I did expect better from BBC. the cast is all BBC actors who I am unfamiliar with.
One more point,There were hardly any characters that I really liked, the ones I did like did not have large enough scenes and that included a major suspect.
Ratings: **1/2 (out of 4) 73 points (out of 100) IMDb 6 (out of 10)