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looks like the science guru's have decided to write reviews for this and slammed it. personally i have enjoyed the series. Yes it has fantastic vista's and glorious visuals , and probably not enough content for the want-to-be or actual geologists within each episode. It does however bring a visual feast and captures the feel of how i certainly used to look out at the stars at night as a child. Its warm, educational, and puts hair on the back of your neck. Brian Cox has a wonderful way of making you understand everything he is explaining (for us mortals that is)In my opinion i appreciate, to "aficionado's" this is child's play, but for the rest of us bored with reality TV , this is compulsive viewing.

I will not divulge any of the film plot as this will ruin the movie for prospective viewers. What i will say is that this film is an artistic, creative and inward glance of the troubled human mind. Directionally it is smooth and intricately woven together along with fantastic casting. Stick with the storyline and you will be rewarded. For me the story borrows ideologically from movies such as 'a beautiful mind' and 'fight club' , with the dark fantasy scenery/feel of 'Dark City' or 'equilibrium' and the mysterious links of 'the machinist' (i feel there is a little Bladerunner tribute in 'meanwhile city' at the beginning of the movie, when a camera shot of a busy metropolis at street level , in the rain, pans up to the sky's to reveal dark , heavy , tall imperialistic buildings complete with over-sized statues. The only two things missing were Deckard and the floating coca cola blimp).I'm guessing that this film is going to equal out here at IMDb ratings as between 5 and 7 stars. I firmly believe this because (dare i say it ), a LOT of people simply are not going to understand it. Its incredibly clever,but... brilliantly NOT to much for its own good. It has a heavy artistic slant at the beginning that leads you to think that this movie is trying to be pompous and only to appeal to either students or the conceptual, but the heavy art subsides gradually to a sense of normality, and it is this that drives the story. Just as Kubrick's 'a clockwork orange' uses language heavily to start with (to explain that gangs have a language alien to so called 'normal people') with the language narrative becoming more coherent as the the lead 'Alex' becomes 'Normalised' , the heavy artistic tones in Franklyn are there to describe the 'other world' and as you start to understand the movie , the director uses less. It works at all times and when the dust disappears from your eyes and you are left with clarity of what is going on , you will be rewarded for what is a very slow starting movie.