Customer Reviews

Mobile

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4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

WOW! Spellbinding. A contemporary mystery and British drama that will NOT allow you to stop between the four episodes. The plot is murder based on revenge revolving around MOBILE phone use. The story bounces around in time as fast as cell phone calls, but never gets you lost, except for "who dun it?", or "who is doing what next?" The cast of characters involved in the whole story are so intertwined and separate events so interwoven that it is hard to find distinction between the victims and the villains. Who is the bad guy, anyhow?

There is included the shootings, bombings, a child seduction, blackmail, murders, suicide, bad cops-good cops, hit and run death, conspiracy, revenge, war, corrupt business, betrayal, snipers, theft, sabotage, and Beelzebub all connected with text-messaging. What's not to like?

It is the masterful criss-crossing of the plot(s), written by British TV writer, John Fay, that makes this what surely will become a Classic mystery of the century. It may leave you looking over your shoulder the next time your cell phone rings. There's no end to the action and intrigue.

Acorn Media gets a huge prize for adding the subtitle option. Jamie Draven (playing ex-soldier, officer Stoan) & Michael Kitchen, ( Telecom exec, David West) should also be given high performance awards. 206 minutes that guarantee you can't figure it out till the story decides to reveal the ending.

And the greatest mystery: the credits include as "Assistant Script Editor" the name of Catherine Cookson, a prolific British author of great fame. She died June 11, 1998, several years prior to the creation of "MOBILE" (2007).

There are 4 episodes which, at first, do not seem to be tied together. However, the plot goes back and forth and motives of the characters get more sinister with each scene. The final episode does tie all together. Michael Kitchen does not play a very nice person and if you have seen him in Foyle's War it is difficult to imagine him taking this role and playing it so well.

The acting is first-rate, the plot is satisfyingly complex if you don't mind several reversals snatched from the air, production values excellent. But the viewer has to be willing to suspend disbelief pretty darn high, like accepting that hypnosis can alter daily behavior, and a killer who, quite randomly, kills or does not kill with no discernible reason. By the end I found myself calling out the plot changes. Still, pretty entertaining if you don't demand too much.

I've enjoyed Michael Kitchen's work as an easy-going gent as in Out of Africa, Enchanted April, and the terrific series Foyle's War. So, it was a surprise to see him venture into a role that was so
different from his other works...a vengeful(not that he didn't have good reason)man.

This is a multi-level crime thriller starring Michael Kitchen (Foyle's War). Someone's bumping off cell-phone users and blowing up cell-phone towers, and even when you see who's doing it, you still don't know who's doing it. I'm an ardent Michael Kitchen fan, and I enjoyed this lengthy, 2 disk, 3 hr., 43 min. British drama.

This glossy, engaging miniseries is a succession of interconnected revenge stories within the mobile phone industry. The pacing is swift, the look is smart and current and the production values are high. Most important, the show features the wonderful Michael Kitchen, who appears in (and dominates) the final two episodes. Each of the four episodes is approximately 50 minutes in length--perfect for home viewing--but be warned, once you start you won't want to stop. The story is told from multiple perspectives, as if it were a jigsaw puzzle with the pieces being fitted in different ways. Each time that parts of the story are retold we learn more about the actual events and the motivations behind them. This is very nice work, with superb performances, a slick script and a nice blend of background music, noise, titles, quick cuts between scenes--the whole magilla. This is not the Britain that you see depicted in the posters on the travel agents' walls. This is high stakes industrial Britain, where the champagne flows, major-league scores are settled and blood is spilled in serious quantities. Go for it.

This UK telemovie in four parts was in fact their version of a miniseries
that U.S. stations often play in two hour blocks over two nights. In this case we get a fantastic story of revenge and a monstrous criminal plot that involves cell phones or mobiles as they are called in the UK.
It does have some nudity which UK television is more advanced than the US in showing. Europeon television producers are just not as prudish as American ones and that's our loss I think. However violence and death are part of most mystery movies. And that great subgenre from italy the giallo does that the best. And this does feature lots of violence and you should expect this even in a sherlock holmes mystery as murder is murder! This show features a intertwining story with a twist ending that I didn't see coming and I watch endless mysteries and giallos! The acting is first class from everyone involved. This show isn't for small kids but then murder mysteries are by nature more adult. If you want a solid story of evil revenge and greed then this one will be hard to stop watching!

Mobile was OK. There were enough twists in the plot to keep us watching to the end. It's definitely better than most US-made films of this type. We'll watch this again.

You enjoyed 'Foyle's War' and now you see Michael Kitchen on the cover? Don't make my mistake - I bought the DVD an I tried to watch it - I really tried.

I only watched the first five minutes before I turned this off. The violence was pretty graphic and there was a nude sex scene right at the beginning of the film (male rear visible). I suspect this would easily qualify for "R" rating if it was rated.