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Meet Helen Dawson (Keira Knightley) just a normal mother of two who's married to a politician, right? Wrong, she's actually been a spy since just before she met the politician and has been giving country secrets to a spy organization called The Black Doves and they've been selling it to the highest bidder for years. Unfortunately for Helen's boss, Helen has started having an affair and when Helen's new lover is killed she's goes on a mission of veagence to find his killer.
As Helen goes on her mission she soon finds out that her lover's murder might be connected to the death of the Chinese ambassador. And she also gets caught up in plenty of gun fights, hand to hand fights and explosive lucky escapes. It's these great action scenes that kept me very interested throughout the series. And I didn't even find myself bored during the flashback scenes which showed how Helen first got into spying, because even these scenes had good shoot outs.
I also enjoyed the witty one liners that both Helen and her spy partner Sam (Ben Whishaw) deliver very well. For example after having an explosive lucky escape, Helen dislocates her shoulder and has to pop it back in place by bashing her arm against a wall. After doing so Sam says, "That was quite impressive." And Helen says, "You should have seen me when I pushed two human beings out of myself in the same afternoon." However even though I was never bored and I definitely didn't feel like this series was too drawn out and would have done better as a long film, I do think the last episode could have been about 10-20 minutes shorter and towards the end of the series I did think it was a bit too complicated. I understand that they were trying to set up the last episode for a 2nd series but I still think they could have done this of they had made the series a little shorter.
I also think that if they make a 2nd series Helen's husband, Wallace, (Andrew Buchan) needs to be portrayed as a stronger character, because throughout the series Helen has to keep sneaking off to investigate her lover's murder, but even when Wallace starts to get suspicious, at the end of the series, he never confronts her about her secrecy.
Despite these minor issues I would definitely watch a 2nd series and would also happily watch this series again and buy it on DVD.
As Helen goes on her mission she soon finds out that her lover's murder might be connected to the death of the Chinese ambassador. And she also gets caught up in plenty of gun fights, hand to hand fights and explosive lucky escapes. It's these great action scenes that kept me very interested throughout the series. And I didn't even find myself bored during the flashback scenes which showed how Helen first got into spying, because even these scenes had good shoot outs.
I also enjoyed the witty one liners that both Helen and her spy partner Sam (Ben Whishaw) deliver very well. For example after having an explosive lucky escape, Helen dislocates her shoulder and has to pop it back in place by bashing her arm against a wall. After doing so Sam says, "That was quite impressive." And Helen says, "You should have seen me when I pushed two human beings out of myself in the same afternoon." However even though I was never bored and I definitely didn't feel like this series was too drawn out and would have done better as a long film, I do think the last episode could have been about 10-20 minutes shorter and towards the end of the series I did think it was a bit too complicated. I understand that they were trying to set up the last episode for a 2nd series but I still think they could have done this of they had made the series a little shorter.
I also think that if they make a 2nd series Helen's husband, Wallace, (Andrew Buchan) needs to be portrayed as a stronger character, because throughout the series Helen has to keep sneaking off to investigate her lover's murder, but even when Wallace starts to get suspicious, at the end of the series, he never confronts her about her secrecy.
Despite these minor issues I would definitely watch a 2nd series and would also happily watch this series again and buy it on DVD.
10 years ago Avery (Lindsay Lohan) is dating Logan (Ian Harding), but Avery is planning to move away. To stop Avery from moving away, Logan tries to propose to Avery in quite a drunk and funny way. Unfortunately Avery says no and continues to move away.
10 years later, Avery and Logan have almost forgotten about their relationship until Avery meets her new boyfriend's (Cameron - Jon Rudnitsky) family and finds out that Logan is dating Cameron's much younger sister, Cassie (Katie Baker.) And I do wish they wouldn't have made quite so many jokes about Logan and Cassie's age gap, because they did get a bit repetitive. Over the Christmas period Avery and Cameron stay at Cameron's mum's big house and Avery and Logan decide to keep their old relationship a secret.
But as time goes on, things keep going wrong for Avery in sometimes predictable but still quite funny ways. I do think they could have made these unfortunate events more funny but overall I found this film enjoyable and I might watch it again next Christmas, if it's still on Netflix.
I also thought the ending was pretty good because in a funny event we find out that Avery and Logan aren't the only people who are trying to keep a secret, but I do think they missed an opportunity to keep the door open for a sequel. And if they do decide to back track and make a sequel, I might watch it, but I don't think it'll be as good as the original.
10 years later, Avery and Logan have almost forgotten about their relationship until Avery meets her new boyfriend's (Cameron - Jon Rudnitsky) family and finds out that Logan is dating Cameron's much younger sister, Cassie (Katie Baker.) And I do wish they wouldn't have made quite so many jokes about Logan and Cassie's age gap, because they did get a bit repetitive. Over the Christmas period Avery and Cameron stay at Cameron's mum's big house and Avery and Logan decide to keep their old relationship a secret.
But as time goes on, things keep going wrong for Avery in sometimes predictable but still quite funny ways. I do think they could have made these unfortunate events more funny but overall I found this film enjoyable and I might watch it again next Christmas, if it's still on Netflix.
I also thought the ending was pretty good because in a funny event we find out that Avery and Logan aren't the only people who are trying to keep a secret, but I do think they missed an opportunity to keep the door open for a sequel. And if they do decide to back track and make a sequel, I might watch it, but I don't think it'll be as good as the original.