Blue Murder: Set 2
List Price:
Our Price: $25.93
You Save: $14.06 (35%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $10.45 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD Cover Information
Actor: Caroline Quentin, Ceallach Spellman, Ian Kelsey, Nicholas Murchie, Paul LoughranBrand: Acorn
Editor: Edward Mansell
Producer: Jane Macnaught
Producer: Josh Dynevor
Writer: Cath Staincliffe
Writer: Karen Hill
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 275 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-01-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Acorn Media
Movie Reviews of Blue Murder: Set 2
Movie Review: So British the Supreme Court may object !
Summary: 5 Stars
HIT AND RUN - Two crimes, two deaths, two lines come together in the course of the enquiry. The tricky intricacies of the two lines and how they get together is the core of the film. So you'll have to watch it to know. The first line is a hit and run with an officially reported stolen car But the hit and run was caused by the stress of the mission the driver was on. The second line is that of illegal immigration from Eastern Europe: girls who come to England to be nothing but whores and eventually barmaids, to cover up the deal. And then you add to that a fictitious pimp who looks and sounds like Bizet's famous invisible Arlésienne. What appears clearly in this episode is that the author cooled down the DCS and insisted on the social and political problem treated here. Quite a good job. FRAGILE RELATIONS - Here, Manchester explodes with another social problem, that of the large Moslem Pakistani community. It all spins around a mosque and a young mullah who is assassinated. You double this side of the problem with the militancy of a racist party and its leader and you have an explosive situation and some would like to excuse the lack of a real enquiry with the danger of this explosive social, religious and ethnic situation. The film shows how the English have set up a local police corps entirely composed of members of the community to do the police work in this community, and one of the members of that unit will be the interface between the Manchester criminal unit and the mosque officials and community and that's how the truth will finally come up and out, how too the female Inspector will be able to enter the inner circle of the mosque without creating any resentment. UP IN SMOKE - Another social situation, a crematorium mind you. Fascinating though horribly morbid, especially when you find out that there seems to be a few more bodies that got burnt than the official count. We know how the missing people, or bodies ended in flames. The point is to find who did it. Nearly easy to suspect it. But the trick here is the sordid reason why a plain love affair turned into a tragedy. Early teen pregnancy, an adoption and then imagine twenty years later when two people fall in love and discover one day they are mother and son. A mountain of guilt explodes out of the earth and then submerges the actors of the tragedy with a volcanic explosion. Everyone gets either burnt or at least singed. A marvelous trashy mess in which we live without knowing about it. LONELY - This episode is very strong and powerful from the very start. All the characters are potential killers. They all have a motive and none has an alibi. And the solution that will come out is a little bit easy because of the final discovery of the murder weapon that should never have been found and especially not with finger prints on it if the ultimate outcome is to be believed. That's maybe a weakness among the plot-writers. A Deus Ex Machina coming out of nowhere. The end of the second season. The need of a vacation, or is it a holiday? We'll see in the next series if the weakness has been strengthened enough to enable the series to last some more. But the culprit is unluckily a very difficult case that cannot be depicted in any way, thence the weakness in the plot.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
Summary of Blue Murder: Set 2
BLUE MURDER SET 2 - DVD MovieSimilar DVD Movies
New Tricks: Series ThreeAcorn; Release date: 2011-02-22; DVD
Best price: $24.98
Price in other shops:
George Gently Series 3Acorn; Release date: 2011-06-28; DVD
Best price: $21.99
Price in other shops:
Midsomer Murders: Set 18AMG; Release date: 2011-09-06; DVD
Best price: $23.39
Price in other shops:
New Tricks: Season 5Acorn; Release date: 2011-09-27; DVD
Best price: $24.71
Price in other shops:
Masterpiece Mystery: Inspector Lewis 4 - Original UK EditionPBD; Release date: 2011-09-13; DVD
Best price: $16.80
Price in other shops:
New Tricks: Season FourAcorn; Release date: 2011-06-07; DVD
Best price: $25.73
Price in other shops:
VeraAMG; Release date: 2011-08-30; DVD
Best price: $38.76
Price in other shops:
Blue Murder: Set 4BLUE MURDER; Release date: 2009-06-30; DVD
Best price: $18.95
Price in other shops:
Blue Murder: Set 3Acorn; Release date: 2008-08-12; DVD
Best price: $21.98
Price in other shops:
Blue Murder - Set 1Acorn; Release date: 2007-06-12; DVD
Best price: $28.46
Price in other shops: