| Mobile | 
 enlarge | Director: Stuart Orme
Actors: Keith Allen, Julie Graham, Michael Kitchen, Samantha Bond, Jamie Draven
Studio: Acorn Media
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 12323
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 206
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 8118
UPC: 054961811892
EAN: 0054961811892
ASIN: B001B43IVC
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: October 7, 2008
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Condition: BRAND NEW AND FACTORY SEALED!
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Studio: Acorn Media Release Date: 10/07/2008 Run time: 206 minutes
Amazon.com
Though riffing on the rage one feels towards obnoxious cell phone users may sound like a one-liner, this four-part miniseries is semi-addictive and in fact, it is hard to watch one 50-minute episode without leaping to the next. Mobile's suspense is built upon an extremely mandarin plot involving the assassination of people on phones and exploding cell phone towers, in which both criminals and police succumb to corruption and terrorism. Unlike Blue Murder, another Manchester-set detective series in which a detective sleuths a different crime in each episode, director Stuart Orme has laced each segment with differing crimes committed by various people, so that the main crime ring and its mastermind is only exposed in the end. In Episode One, "The Engineer," we meet the first criminal, Eddie Doig (Neil Fitzmaurice), disgruntled by a brain tumor he has from cell phone usage, making it logical that he will be the terrorist throughout. A wonderful performance by Julie Graham, as Eddie's wife Donna, allows the viewer some sympathy for Eddie, though in subsequent episodes we leap back in time to trace Eddie's involvement in an elusive team of more dangerous men out for revenge. In Episodes Two and Three, we meet hypnotist Ray Bould (John Thomson), telecom executive David West (Michael Kitchen), ex-Army man Maurice Stoan (Jamie Draven), as well as the head detective on the case, Lorraine Conil (Sunetra Sarker). Each character plays their part to ensure crimes remain unsolved, or at least lead to the wrong men. Mobile's plot is so complex that one marvels at its potential realism. It reminds the viewer of how difficult terrorism is to pinpoint, expose, and cease, making Mobile's cell-phone fixation more a metaphor for current political realities in which cell phones possibly play a major part. --Trinie Dalton
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 Pretty Good October 31, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The acting is first-rate, the plot is satisfyingly complex if you don't mind several reversals snatched from the air, production values excellent. But the viewer has to be willing to suspend disbelief pretty darn high, like accepting that hypnosis can alter daily behavior, and a killer who, quite randomly, kills or does not kill with no discernible reason. By the end I found myself calling out the plot changes. Still, pretty entertaining if you don't demand too much.
 A MUST HAVE FOR ANY MYSTERY FAN, If you can handle it. September 6, 2008
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
WOW! Spellbinding. A contemporary mystery and British drama that will NOT allow you to stop between the four episodes. The plot is murder based on revenge revolving around MOBILE phone use. The story bounces around in time as fast as cell phone calls, but never gets you lost, except for "who dun it?", or "who is doing what next?" The cast of characters involved in the whole story are so intertwined and separate events so interwoven that it is hard to find distinction between the victims and the villains. Who is the bad guy, anyhow?
There is included the shootings, bombings, a child seduction, blackmail, murders, suicide, bad cops-good cops, hit and run death, conspiracy, revenge, war, corrupt business, betrayal, snipers, theft, sabotage, and Beelzebub all connected with text-messaging. What's not to like?
It is the masterful criss-crossing of the plot(s), written by British TV writer, John Fay, that makes this what surely will become a Classic mystery of the century. It may leave you looking over your shoulder the next time your cell phone rings. There's no end to the action and intrigue.
Acorn Media gets a huge prize for adding the subtitle option. Jamie Draven (playing ex-soldier, officer Stoan) & Michael Kitchen, ( Telecom exec, David West) should also be given high performance awards. 206 minutes that guarantee you can't figure it out till the story decides to reveal the ending.
And the greatest mystery: the credits include as "Assistant Script Editor" the name of Catherine Cookson, a prolific British author of great fame. She died June 11, 1998, several years prior to the creation of "MOBILE" (2007).
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