Doctor Who: Deep Breath (2014)

Sorry, this movie sucks

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

The Doctor lands in Victorian London where a Large dinosaur is on the loose. The Doctor has regenerated into his latest incarnation and is behaving very erratically. On site are the Doctor's Victorian trio, Madam Vastra, Jenny and Strax. Parts are being taken from people, eyes, organs etc, and even the Dinosaur is killed for parts. The Doctor discovers a foe with similar to behaviours to one he'd previously encountered, but there is a darker foe waiting in the wings. I utterly loved Peter Capaldi after this one episode, he has managed to bring a mass of energy and craziness to the role, I found it incredibly infectious. It felt like a true crossover from Classic Who. Interesting conversation with the tramp about his face, possibly a recognition from Pompeii.I also find this the strongest performance from Jenna Coleman too, a brilliant Clara story. The phone call she does brilliantly.I don't mind saving I have grown to utterly love Strax, didn't get the appeal at first, now I love the Victorian trio.I love the Doctor and Clara's scene in the restaurant, it's a really creepy realisation, when they discover the other guests aren't eating.The opening credits took a bit of getting used to, I didn't like them initially but I grew to love them, reminded me of those used in Tom's last series.Love Missy at first sight, wasn't that the Garden from the Girl who waited? It was obvious Missy would be something special.The story itself is truly brilliant. I'm always up for a bit of Victorian drama, and this hits all the right notes, it's a seriously clever, beautiful looking episode. It's also very dark and engaging, such a great opener. 10/10

Well that's it, Moffat needs to be sacked and the BBC producers need a stern talking-to. Yet again they've managed to create a video-clip for some really boring, overbaked orchestral music, with no plot.I had some small hope - a smidgin - that the new series might show some kind of up-turn in the writing. My big, liquid eyes were upturned in big, liquid hope.But no, sadly, the Moffat we-MUST-make-dr-who-crap boot squad dashed my hopes, kicking me a big one right in the middle of my cute, puppy face.No plot, nothing particularly interesting, more of the same constructs we've seen before... Oh, and endless DWELLING on LGBT stuff! Sure, its quite reasonable to have a few LGBT characters, its 2014 and we are supposed to reflect reality not some 1950's fantasy. But this isn't a soap-opera, it's a sci-fi series. Well, it's supposed to be anyway...Every time Moffat rips my heart out like this - and his predecessor the deeply, amazingly un-talented RTD - I say I won't keep watching. But for some reason, I just cling to this notion that it will become good.What actually happens is you get a handful of good episodes. No, sorry, that's an exaggeration. You get maybe two, if you are lucky, per season. And these are enough to make me pretend the series shouldn't be canned.Poor Peter Capaldi.Oh and one more thing: no, the scots accent is NOT acceptable. I love Peter's native accent, especially in the 'Thick Of It'. But Doctor Who is ENG-LISH, and MALE.DEAL. WITH. IT.If you change something enough, it stops being that thing - John Nathan Turner and his idiot predecessor discovered that in the 80s when they drove the series into the ground.Then again, it's a soap-opera now. Somebody DID change it.It's certainly not Doctor Who.

Remember Matt Smith when he came in ? "The Eleventh Hour" !The one liners, the funny eccentric Matt Smith, lovely Amy Pond, and of course, the showdown in the end of that episode. That showdown was excellent with the Doctor calling the alien back. Lines like "The doctor is in" , "Basically... run !" were delivered so well. The holographic images of all the doctors, through which Matt Smith walks out in the end !!!Well, absolutely none of that cleverness was there in this episode. It was quite a simple one. Looks like Moffat ran out of ideas for a story and for showcasing a Doctor.A simple story about a dinosaur who combusts and the Doctor searches for the serial killer. Clara was as good as always. No difference there.One neat thing was the way they set up this Doctor's personality really well. they make it quite clear that he is not like Matt Smith and not a pseudo boyfriend to Clara.Nevertheless, if you are as big a fan as I , you need to see it !Update: I saw the second episode "Into the Dalek" and still not impressed.

As this episode opens one could be forgiven for thinking you were watching an episode of 'Primeval' as we see a tyrannosaurus rex rampaging through London… that is until it becomes apparent that this is Victorian London and it coughs up the Tardis! The Doctor who emerges from it is quite a bit older than the one in the previous series and he is having difficulty with the names of people he should know and with his new appearance. The Doctor and Clara are taken to Madame Vastra's house but the Doctor wanders off. It looks as if he and Clara are to be separated but she spots an advert in The Times which could only have come from The Doctor; it leads her to a restaurant where they are reunited and he tells her how he found her advert! Clearly it was a trap; they are in a room full of creepy automata and it would appear they are on the menu!.The first episode of a new Doctor is always a little difficult to judge; the character is familiar yet also unfamiliar; both for the viewer and the characters who know him. Much of the first half of the episode was given over to getting Clara, and through her the audience, to accept the change… then the real action started. The villain of the story was suitably creepy without showing us what he did in any detail… a family show can't show organ harvesting robots who have made a balloon from human skin! It isn't all scares though; we get a few laughs too, mostly from Strax.Peter Capaldi got off to a fine start in his first full episode as The Doctor; it certainly looks as though he will be quite different when compared to the other 'new-series' Doctors. He is still somewhat manic, so much so that I feared he'd end up in Bedlam as he wandered around London in a nightshirt! Jenna Coleman continues as assistant Clara Oswald so we don't need to get used to two new protagonists as we did when Matt Smith took over and the presence of Madame Vastra, her wife Jenny and Strax provide more familiar faces. The episode is almost double the usual length but at no point did I think the story was dragging. Overall I found this to be a fairly enjoyable episode and have a feeling I'll like this new Doctor.