Well, episode 1 put me off right from the get-go as a scene takes place in such darkness that you don't really know what's going on. (Also it looked to me like a computer game.) This is becoming a real problem for me. I mean, it's great that with modern technology you can shoot in very low light conditions but you still have to be able to make out what is going on (unless of course it's a directorial decision that you can't for deliberate reasons). In fact we had gone from Master of Light John Alton to this and you can see that in terms of lighting the 76 years earlier film was far superior.
And the next thing that pissed me off was that the assassin trying to kill our assassin gratuitously kills lots of wedding guests, and then when some more assassins turn up they just start executing the rest of the wedding party, which seemed dangerously like Nazis or any bunch of Fascist killers and not creating a very nice tone at all.
Which is a shame as I tend to like things about assassins, but this just seemed quite crap.
Keeley Hawes and Freddie Highmore.
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