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The Great Train Robbery (2013)
Style over Substance. No Real Drama.
We were excited to see this series, but what a let down! It was a frustrating and quite boring account of a history-based story of a train robbery. There was way too much emphasis and time spent on shots of period scenes that were well done but slowed the pace and couldn't begin to make up for the basic, too-straightforward story line and unimaginative dialogue. Characters ranged from flat to very unlikeable which made it hard to even care what would happen to either the cops or the robbers. Such a shame when you cast a fine actor like Jim Broadbent who is then wasted playing a one-dimensional, complete jerk. The Bruce Reynolds character was not sympathetic either. We really lost interest in whether he got caught or not! Also we kept wondering why Reynolds with all his money didn't just leave the country, even after the close call of almost getting caught.