Stratton

The beginning of Stratton is really good. It is exciting and draws you in towards the main characters very nicely.

Then it goes downhill. Fast. The head of MI6 has one of the oddest English accents I have heard on film in a long time... (not as bad as the legendary Dick Van Dyke - I'm saying odd not terrible - probably OK sounding to a non-native speaker, but just clearly not from anywhere). Connie Nielsen is much better as a leader of the Amazons than a leader of a covert British intelligence service.

And when she is the only one who recognises the bad guy, even though he is supposedly the most terrible FSB agent ever, you know she has a personal connection to him that will probably be significant... except it isn't... or if it was then I was asleep by then.

And poor Tim Felton just had to be the turncoat didn't he. OMG. Casting director: who can we get to be the mole? I know, Draco Malfoy. FFS. Give the guy a part where he isn't a snivelling weasel; he can act, let him.

That girl from the Robots thing on Channel 4 is quite good (Gemma Chan). Dominic Cooper is too. What is Derek Jacobi doing? And why did the writer only manage to find a decent 15 minutes worth of story... the last 80 is pure tosh.

Shame. The actors deserved better material to work with.