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| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Charles Beeson |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 30 September, 1999 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Wgbh Boston Video |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Mystery / Suspense |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 2 |
| UPC: | 783421338630 |
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Customer Reviews of Second Sight (Box Set)
Classy production: but...... Clive Owen is superb as British Chief Detective Inspector Ross Tanner. Ensemble cast (some of whom worked with him in existential thriller CROUPIER)is equally excellent in BBC production which rings with psychological intensity and character development. This American MASTERPIECE THEATRE presentation of SECOND SIGHT has added class of Diana Rigg introducing "the game to be a'foot". But there ARE problems...
Paula Milne's screen play, while providing fascinating vehicle for potential super star Owen (who's been offered role of 007 when Pierce Brosnan hangs-up License to Kill; and starring role in a renewed BATMAN project from Frank Miller's canon),traps itself in foreshadowing it fails to successfuly resolve. Final confrontation between Owen and his prime suspect in murder case ensconsed in suicide,incest,drug abuse and hints of homosexual perversion, ANNOUNCES(like Greek chorus keeping score)the solution. "Anti-climactic" is polite for tacked-on denouement with Ross' not-as-clever as we/he/BBC thought,antagonist. The virtual ANTAGONIST in Second Sight is Tanner opposing himself. It almost works. Owen is riveting in near-despair battle with encroaching blindness; and heart warming with his battle to be father and hero to his son(whom he may lose to divorced-wife's beau,"Frank"). But "deus ex post-modernist machina" quality of the ending...including avoided, crucial confrontation with Ross' Detective Commissioner superior that should've raised hell...diminishes what could've been classic Police Procedural in nobody-does-it-better British tradition. SECOND SIGHT is definitely worth viewing; even a SECOND one. Even actors good as Clive Owen cannot(demonstrated in recent adult fairy-tale,BEYOND BORDERS, where pretentious PC morality agenda nearly does-in good adventure/romance)dam-up plot holes Ms.Milne's ambitious failure in craft have punched in her own story. This is classy,handsome production: but some editor should've reviewed the script
with timely SECOND SIGHT.
SPELLBINDING HERO MAKES SERIES CRACKLE.
Fans of the art house cult hit CROUPIER will delight in this first entry in yet another first-rate British mystery series. Clive Owen, who made Jack Manfred a classic antihero in CROUPIER, fleshes out a fascinating character in DCI Ross Tanner as the SECOND SIGHT series begins with this two-tape set. Tanner is a divorced (aren't they always?) workaholic with an ambitious ex-wife and an adoring young son who seems to double as Tanner's only real friend. In this go-round, Tanner is beginning to lose his eyesight to a rare disease for which there stands no present cure. Hiding his condition and his terror is not going to be easy, however. The fadeouts are unpredictable and often frightening and his new partner, Catherine Tully, is on to him. Equally ambitious, and out to correct an old wrong, Tully offers to be Tanner's eyes if he will give her a crack at their new case--the death of a young university student in his own backyard while no one in the family seemed to notice.
Claire Skinner is, as always, expert and enjoyable to watch but its Clive Owen's show all the way. His unconventional good looks and rugged exterior share space with a tender, devoted father and a fair-minded, ingenious detective but Owen also gives Ross Tanner something else, that rarest of things in movie characters--the suggestion of an inner life which is every bit as fascinating as his day-to-day crime solving. Great production values and fine supporting performances (especially from Stuart Wilson and Phoebe Nicholls) make SECOND SIGHT a must for any British mystery video library.
Clive Owen is Hot
It's a predictable mystery but it's well packaged and, as I said, Clive Owen is hot! There's some intensely erotic moments in this series that make it worth watching even though the average mystery fan will have the plot all figured out way before the climax.
Yes, I've admitted elsewhere that I am incredibly shallow at times, and this is one of them.