Review of Ridley Road

Ridley Road (2021)
6/10
Fascists meet the Midwife
15 May 2022
Warning: Spoilers
The whole tone of this series reminded of "Call The Midwife" in it's unpolished portrayal of what should have been a tense drama. Older viewers might be reminded of the "Bulldog Drummond" series with it's overwrought simplistic view of heroes and heroines doing battle with evil. Colin Jordan comes across as a fatuous fascist, as dangerous as a used Volkswagen salesman in Berchtesgaden. It all ends up with a ludicrous chase scene with our heroine lugging a suitcase around from pillar to post, across walls, in attics, in a train, and using it as a weapon of escape from the bad guys. Only for Jordan to get a few months in jail.

The highlight is Eddie Marsan getting to do a cockney taxi driver.
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