Midsomer Murders, Set 10
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Midsomer Murders Audio: English (Original Language) Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.66:1 Running Time: 100 minutes DVD Release Date: 2008-03-25 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Acorn Media |
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Movie Reviews of Midsomer Murders, Set 10
Movie Review: Death by piquant sauce, then sterilized, is just one of the murders DCI Tom Barnaby faces this time
Summary: 5 Stars
Violent death comes frequently to the unfortunate residents of all those pretty Midsomer County villages and small towns. It makes one wonder if the gorgeous scenery, picturesque homes and carefully tended gardens compensate for the fear that must make at least some of the inhabitants quail every time they hear a knock on the door or see a shadow on a path.
With set ten of Midsomer Murders, Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby (John Nettles) is in fine form. He's a shrewd, experienced, unflappable man with a dry sense of humor. He's going to need all his wits to deal with what the murderers, and the series writers, have come up with. Let's see...one person gets it by being staked to the ground, with a miniature trebuchet used to hurl bottles of wine down on him. Another is crushed by jars of Plummer's Piquant Sauce and then run through the sterilizer. My favorite is the person on a speeding motorcycle late at night. An encounter with a wire strung between two trees sends the man and his machine continuing in one direction and his head flying in another. Fortunately, the camera cuts away at the most gruesome moments and we're only left with our imagination. That means we wind up shuddering and smiling at the same time. As for the living, we and Barnaby encounter a marriage gone so loveless that you wouldn't wish it on a New York trophy wife. And at least two killers are so cold-blooded one would think jellied consommé must run in their veins, not blood. It may be that the writers are beginning to strain a little to keep our interest up, but I'm not complaining.
The four 100-minute mysteries that make up set ten are, in my opinion, among the more interesting we've had in this long series. The plots are often complicated, but if you pay attention they make sense. One word of warning. In Midsomer Rhapsody there are so many characters related in one way or another that a pad of paper to make notes on will be helpful. Without exception the acting is first-rate. It was good to see such experienced actors as Oliver Ford Davies, Annette Crosbie and Frank Middlemass have major roles. Middlemass, 85 when he appeared in Midsomer Rhapsody, died a year later. He has always been a favorite of mine since I saw him as the headmaster in To Serve Them All My Days.
Something also needs to be said about Jim Parker. He's the man who composed Midsomer Murders' theme music. It's a moody and distinctive melody that does a fine job of getting us ready for Tom Barnaby and his inimitable corpses.
The DVD transfer is first-rate, with clean, vibrant colors