Softwing
Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??
LouHomey
From my favorite movies..
Infamousta
brilliant actors, brilliant editing
Phillipa
Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
Paul Evans
The first series, which started Ecclestone and Patterson Joseph relied on the whole premise of a safe house, the need for it, the secrecy surrounding it, and the problems for all involved. A good story, well acted, but in parts a little slow and padded. I didn't particularly like the conclusion, it was a little far fetched, all in all it's very watchable with several moments of suspense. Series 1 6/10Series two relied more heavily on scares and suspense, in my opinion this was the better series, although the whole premise of it being aware house seems pointless, mobile phones, comings and goings, Free House might have been more apt. That quibble apart this did contain some great moments, those tents cranked up the moments of suspense, and the outstanding performance of Jason Watkins made it hugely watchable. Series 2 - 8/10Overall 7/10
Arweljos
The first series wasn't the best but was passable, I thought I'd give the second series a chance seeing as it had an all new cast, a new story and was set in Anglesey(not far from where I live). Wish I hadn't bothered, I watched the first two episodes to give it a chance and couldn't really get into it, I was going to stop there but as it only had four episodes I continued on, mainly to confirm that I was correct in my thought from the very first episode that Jason Watkins character was indeed the culprit. It was a chore to watch however and I found it hard to connect with any of the characters and to be honest I couldn't have cared less what happened to any them, it was lazy uninspired and unimaginative stoytelling with a done to death plot and one of those annoying unanswered you have to make your own mind up endings. And on that point can someone please tell TV show writers to stop these open ended endings, with unanswered questions, I can understand it on long running TV shows where the story continues and the show has been commissioned for another series, but on a four part drama like this, even if I didn't care who lived or died, I've put the time in and I want the story told to me in its entirety, its your story not mine so finish it!
James Smith
Given the strength of the lead actors and the crux of the story - setting up a Safe House in the country, I watched the first episode and part of the second. A little way through the second, I started to wonder why I was still watching? It was so slow. The bad guy appeared to be able to do anything he liked, and I could sense that somehow he was going to find the Safe House. I just wasn't prepared to sit through another two episodes to see this happen. Maybe this just wasn't to my taste? I guess the main thing that got me was the story. Everything else seemed OK. However, as the story is the equivalent of the brick walls to a house, this one fell down very quickly.
tenlegdragon
My ears only perked up over this because it's starring two people I tend to watch in anything.It starts off with a cop who decides to moonlight as a safe house keeper (I don't know the proper terminology for person running a safe house) and a family who needs a safe house. There's a bad guy who might turn out to be batshit, or he might turn out to be justifiably provoked by the so-called innocent family... They don't commit to any thing in the pilot other that to let you know this is probably going to turn into a home invasion/ psycho on the loose type thing, by how strongly they reinforce "sketchy cop with backstory", "Psycho in the wild", "remote location", "No one can hear you scream". That last one is implied, but altogether, the suspense and mystery is strong in this one, and I'm pretty sure somebody will be murdered by someone they didn't expect to be murdered by. The cop, not exactly disgraced, but retired, almost definitely might have some secrets he's keeping from his friends, his boss, his wife or all three. The wife is almost suspiciously hot, and I feel there's some story there as to how that works... It is equally likely one of them is a psycho - it sort of has a vibe that makes you thing the season finale could wind up being Trauma (Colin Firth suspense thriller).It's based somewhere British, I don't know where because I'm horrible at accent deviation, but it's nice to look at at least and nice to listen to. It looks like a valley where someone would find loch ness monster pics