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Suitable for 15 years and over 2 Entertain Video Release date: Monday 10th of November 2008 Starring: Daragh O'Malley, Hugh Fraser, Sean Bean, Michael Cochrane, Toby Stephens, Director(s): Format: PAL, Region code: 2 Running time: 275 minutes

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Hope and Glory?
Review date: 2008-12-04 Rating: 6 out of 10

Allot of people look at this and go on about Sean Bean being much older, the story lines being weaker, and the acting wooden. Well, the new series will never live up to the 'glory' of the old, but lets not be too cruel. These are fun, easy to watch and quite enjoyable films making the best of a hard situation, how to carry on a highly successful series long after the original run of books had ended.

The new stories are effecivly re-writings of the 'new' Sharpe books, which follow the life of Richard Sharpe through India in the time before the Nepolionic wars. Obviously they couldnt follow that line exactly as Sean Bean is older now, so they have placed the stories in a post Nepolionic war India. Like all TV dramas, the stories have been shifted around to fit time and script, but that has always been the case with Sharpe.

If you like period drama and easy watching, then these are great, just dont expect the passion and in depth characters that you remember from the 90's.