Directed by: Andrew Grieve
Written by: CS Forrester (Books), Russell Lewis, TR Bowen, Patrick Harbinson, Mike Cullen, Chris Ould, Niall Leonard, Ben Rostal, Stephen Churchett (All Screenplay)
Starring cast: Ioan Gruffudd (Horatio Hornblower)
Supporting cast: Robert Lindsay (Sir. Edward Pellew), Paul Copley (Matthews), Sean Gilder (Styles), Jamie Bomber (Archie Kennedy), Denis Lawson (Capt. Foster), Ian McNeice (Tapling), Cherie Lunghi (Duchess of Wharfedale), Antony Sher (Col. Moncoutant), Samuel West (Major Edrington), David Warner (Capt. James Sawyer), Nicholas Jones (1st Lt. Buckland), Paul McGann (Lt. Bush), Lorcan Cranitch (Wolfe), Julia Sawalha (Maria Mason), Barbera Flynn (Mrs. Mason), Tony Haygarth (Master Prowse)
What’s It Rated?: USA not rated (I Give it PG-13 to R for violence, language, sensuality, thematic elements, some nudity and sexual themes)
Genre: Action, Naval, War, Romance, Adventure
Synopsis: Horatio Hornblower joins His Majesty’s Navy as a midshipman and quickly, through many adventures, Hornblower shows his ability to rise to various occations.
My take: I watched this series on Youtube (call me cheap) a few weeks ago and quite frankly, I thought they were pretty good. You may be surprised that I wrote my rating including all that it did and then turned around and say that it was pretty good. Well, the stories were good, the acting was relatively good, and aside from a few scenes of intense violence or innapropriate situations, the rest of the scenes are pretty good. With something like a Clear Play box, obviously, you could change this series however you would want it to be and in that case only would I recommend this to almost anyone.
However, as it stands, those scenes are there, and most people don’t have a Clear Play box so I will have to take those few scenes into consideration in my review.
The stories were excellent when compared to a lot of movies and TV mini series’ and that’s probably because it’s based on a series of books. It does get a little predictable at some points, but for the most part, the story telling was very good.
Once again, be very careful when allowing younger audiences see this series; They’re pretty good, but as with almost anything, you must take it with a grain of salt and be careful what scenes you watch.
Story: 5 to 8 out of 10 (depending on which episode)
Action/Suspense: 6 to 9 out of 10 (depending of which episode)
Humor: 5-7 out of 10 (depending on which episode)
Overall: 5 to 8 out of 10 (depending on which episode. 1,2, and 7 are the best. Be careful with 3, 4 and 5)
1 comments:
very cool show
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