Film Reviews by IG

You really need to have watched the series Gomorrah, which is brilliant, to make full sense of this film.

Like the series a simple gangster tale is uplifted by great direction and acting performance into a compelling emotional story.

Gets off to a reasonable and promising start but then meanders through a rather formulaic route to a dull ending, passes the time but that is about it.

Very watchable, a lot of humour intertwined with some touching moments presented in a non-judgemental style. Well worth a watch.

This failed for us on many levels, not least the bizarre, almost surreal, mixed race casting.

The style is amateurish, content is not that entertaining, a few good moments and decent performances but generally just dull.

Downhill all the way after a promising start concluding with the last episode that has all the feel that the money had run out in equal measures to the enthusiasm of the scriptwriters, director and actors. Visually not a bad job as a period piece but there is little else to recommend. The style is confused and often farcical, the characters are all two dimensional at best, a simplistic plot that lacks intellectual depth.

Stunning portrait of a dignified woman whose life is beyond anything I have experience of, beautiful and very moving.

Each to their own, but, we thoroughly disliked this film and turned it off after 30 minutes, maybe it improved, I doubt it and really don't care. I appreciate that the story is intended to amuse and ridicule the social mores of the period but that does not excuse the lightweight style of this film, more to the point the soundtrack is loud, intrusive and totally inappropriate: Worse than a B movie.

Moderately interesting film, adequately delivered, nicely produced with some stylish moments. That the central character has Tourette's Syndrome is a double edged sword, it adds to the interest but as in real life is a rather irritating affliction all round.

Well made film with decent actors that moves along and entertains, downside is a rather predictable storyline similar in many ways to a host of other films of this genre, a good but not great film.

I thought this would be rather dull and with the benefit of hindsight present a rose-tinted view of events, luckily I was wrong, a quite gripping film that presents the facts succintly. Well worth a watch.

We found this rather lacking in emotion, bland, sanitised and overall very dull. Suggest you watch Gallipoli or Hacksaw Ridge for a gripping war film, this one isn't.

With the possible exception that she has Russian ancestry, why cast Helen Mirren in this role, she is around 40 years older than the age of the character she portrays?

For a far more entertaining and closer to history version watch the Russian produced Ekaterina, it is brilliant, unlike this dull effort.

This film will not test your intellectual ability, but, will make you laugh, and, it is certainly not boring. A feelgood movie with some tragic moments, well worth a watch.

One of the worst films ever, overlong, dull and weak in every sense. Please do not make the same mistake as we did and assume a good cast list list will deliver an entertaining watch, you will be disappointed.

Promises a lot but ultimately fails to deliver and is rather dull. The plot is fairly simple but had the scope for a more intriguing narrative and some suspense, watch something else.