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1. The picture quality was not good.

2. The DVD had a very annoying introduction which is supposed to make us aware of what a wonderful fellow Sharpe is (complete with annoying song). I didn't mind listening to it once, but I was exasperated to find out that each time I started watching the movie, I had to sit through it all over again!

3. I didn't like Sharpe's love interest. In my opinion, a woman who uses her sex appeal to lure soldiers to their death by stabbing them is close to being a psychopath.

4. The conflict with the evil sergeant was a bit ludicrous. Somehow, I think that in the real Napoleonic Wars, annoying officers and sergeants fell victim to accidental shootings. After all, it's not like they'd be able to really investigate something like that. So Hakewell's continued existence got a little bit silly.

5. The combat scenes weren't very impressive. There wasn't enough noise and people just were not moving with a sense of purpose that being shot at gives you.

Oh, well.

Great series
I found the first three Shape's adventures to be wonderfully entertaining. My wife and I enjoyed them together. We were both wondering why this is considered the third episode when it should be the fourth - and there is no third. Somehow between Sharp's Eagle and Sharpe's Company our hero is married and has a child. There are glimpses of a wedding - and a duel - at the beginning of the episode but that is all there is: glimpses. But the individual episodes - though better viewed as a series - do stand alone and you can fill in what seems to be missing.

This episode brings Pete Postlethwaite as Sergeant Hakeswill into the series. He is flat out evil and certainly mad. Pete Postlethwaite is a first rate actor so it's interesting to see him in such an over-the-top role. I'm sure he loved it.

The English troops are storming a fortress. After blasting a breach in the wall they are cut down like stalks of wheat until Sharpe and his men take charge. Sharpe is anxious to get inside as his wife and the daughter he has never seen are inside and he knows the English soldiers will rape and pillage once victorious. Sure enough, the guys you were just rooting for now deserve to be swinging from a tree limb. And Sergeant Hawkswill shows up with designs on Sharp's wife.

I have noticed the scripts are not by the same writer so I am quite sure I will run into a clunker or two in the remaining shows in the series, but the first three were all great and as a whole I am equally sure this is going to be a fine series.

Another winning adventure in the Sharpe's series
Sharpe and his men are fighting not only the French in this tale but an evil and devious sergeant as well who has some history with Sharpe.

The battle and action scenes are top notch again and the characters are grand and heroic. The settings and costumes make it all very colorful and real.

The actors again do a great job with Sean Bean, Asumpta Serna and Daragh O'Malley giving us wonderful heroic performances. Special mention has to go to Pete Postlethwaite who delivers a scenery chewing performance as the evil Sergeant Hakeswill. Marvelous!

I enjoyed this one and have no complaints at all about the quality of the DVD picture or sound.