Maidexpl
Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast
Cooktopi
The acting in this movie is really good.
Rosie Searle
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
Charles Richardson
If you are the type of person who likes women , explosives, guns and people shooting at the Taliban , you will love this and it even has the added plus of being amusing and very enjoyable to watch. If you don't like women, explosives, guns and people shooting the Taliban , you are very dull and should watch Antique Roadshow instead.
mike-27565
I stumbled across this early in series 1 while late-night channel hopping and rapidly grew to love it, other members of the family have accumulated along the way and it's now (early series 3) become required viewing. The sharply observed writing careers recklessly across the full range of comedy styles while a solid cast of identifiable characters bicker and connive their way through a lethal tour in some miserable outpost. The unsentimental approach leaves you with a strong suspicion that any member of the cast might be explosively written out at any time (probably in a blackly hilarious way), giving it a tension the likes of MASH and Dads Army would never have aspired to (although the description of this as "Dads Army for our time" is spot on).For my money series 3 has faltered a little at the start, hopefully it will find its footing again and maintain the standards of the first two.
ianlouisiana
Although the late Mr Grissom was referring to his own dangerous trade - a pioneering astronaut - he was tragically prophetic,dying in a fire on the launchpad 35 years ago. Soldiering is another dangerous even deadly trade,and frontline soldiering is not a job for the over - sensitive.It doesn't do to intellectualise whilst staring down your gunsight on a deadly hot and dusky Afghan goat track.You look out for yourself and your mates and count the days left on your tour. And you have a laugh.Next to the flight home it's the best part of the job. "Bluestone 42" is a comedy about a bomb - disposal unit in Helmand province,one of the least hospitable places on the planet.They're ordinary men and women in extraordinary circumstances doing what it takes to get by. Arguing,swearing,joking,shouting,pumped up or terrified. It has a fine cast of 20 - something actors with energy to spare,capturing the faux nonchalance of the professional soldier very well. It is very funny;it makes use of soldiers' language which may offend some but adds an edge to the dialogue. Service comedies have a noble history on British TV and "Bluestone 42" is in their best traditions.As the British Army depressingly continues to be deployed in an aggressive role nearly 70 years after the end of the second world war,I can see the ghosts of Dunkirk and Sword beach laughing in wry recognition of what their great grandchildren are up to.
bob-1135
Just watched the first episode and am very impressed. The whole cast is strong without any weak links or actors jostling to be the 'leading light'. A few well known faces and a lot of strangers they mesh together very well to present us with a top class storyline and, hopefully, series. The comic timing is very good, kit and locations well up to the mark ( although I wouldn't recommend firing a shoulder launched anti tank rocket standing in front of a hard surface like an armoured vehicle, the back blast is liable to do naughty things to your body).I only hope that it doesn't sink into a mire of self pitying homilies about the horrors of war which was the fate of the TV series of MASH, especially after Alan Alda took over directing.There will be some of you who haven't been in the forces in combat and might find the humour a bit strange, that it is but very accurate. (Advancing through a minefield and a man steps on a mine. He's on the deck screaming that he's lost his leg only to be informed by his mate that it's OK because he can see where it went. Strangely enough he was quite happy with that!)