Product Details

• Actors: Keith Allen, Julie Graham, Michael Kitchen, Samantha Bond, Jamie Draven
• Directors: Stuart Orme
• Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Acorn Media
• DVD Release Date: October 7, 2008
• Run Time: 206 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001B43IVC
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #45,420 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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Though riffing on the rage one feels towards obnoxious cell phone users may sound like a one-liner, this four-part miniseries is semi-addictive and in fact, it is hard to watch one 50-minute episode without leaping to the next. Mobile’s suspense is built upon an extremely mandarin plot involving the assassination of people on phones and exploding cell phone towers, in which both criminals and police succumb to corruption and terrorism. Unlike Blue Murder, another Manchester-set detective series in which a detective sleuths a different crime in each episode, director Stuart Orme has laced each segment with differing crimes committed by various people, so that the main crime ring and its mastermind is only exposed in the end. In Episode One, "The Engineer," we meet the first criminal, Eddie Doig (Neil Fitzmaurice), disgruntled by a brain tumor he has from cell phone usage, making it logical that he will be the terrorist throughout. A wonderful performance by Julie Graham, as Eddie’s wife Donna, allows the viewer some sympathy for Eddie, though in subsequent episodes we leap back in time to trace Eddie’s involvement in an elusive team of more dangerous men out for revenge. In Episodes Two and Three, we meet hypnotist Ray Bould (John Thomson), telecom executive David West (Michael Kitchen), ex-Army man Maurice Stoan (Jamie Draven), as well as the head detective on the case, Lorraine Conil (Sunetra Sarker). Each character plays their part to ensure crimes remain unsolved, or at least lead to the wrong men. Mobile’s plot is so complex that one marvels at its potential realism. It reminds the viewer of how difficult terrorism is to pinpoint, expose, and cease, making Mobile’s cell-phone fixation more a metaphor for current political realities in which cell phones possibly play a major part. --Trinie Dalton

Product Description

Conspiracy, betrayal, and revenge in the global telecom industry

Someone is blowing up mobile-phone towers across England. Messages scrawled in blood-red paint at the scenes proclaim that mobile phones are the instruments of the devil. What’s more, a gunman -- or gunmen -- is shooting cell phone users in mid-conversation. Baffled police investigators scramble to avert public panic.

In four interlocking parts, this tense drama peels back the layers of a terrorist conspiracy, gradually revealing the evil at its core. We follow three characters -- a disgraced telecom executive (Michael Kitchen, Foyle’s War), a bitter ex-soldier (Jamie Draven, Billy Elliot), and a disgruntled engineer (Neil Fitzmaurice, Going Off Big Time) -- all united by circumstance or collusion. In a style reminiscent of Crash, the narrative moves backward and forward in time, unraveling the three men’s complex motives and their connections to a ruthless self-made millionaire (Keith Allen, Robin Hood). The result is an ultra-modern thriller packed with surprising twists and astonishing emotional depth.

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A MUST HAVE FOR ANY MYSTERY FAN, If you can handle it., September 5, 2008

By	Harold Wolf "Doc" (Wells, IN United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

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).

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sinister and great entertainment, April 3, 2009

By	J. Stridiron - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good, October 31, 2008

By	Chris Gibbs (Fanwood, NJ USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.