If I Had You (2006)

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

This was originally shown in the UK as a 3 part mini series. So those of you watching it as a "TV Movie" should realise that it has been crudely edited down. This is probably the reason that some of you found it dis-jointed. Incidentally one of the boys who found the body in the lake went on to become a member of the boyband One Direction.

The acting, photography, and location choice is great. It makes it so much more the pity that the script lets it down. Cut-and-paste storytelling with cliché-ridden dialogue is not acceptable in 2017. Most, if not all, scenes were predictable. I once heard an actor complain that the scriptwriters forgot what had happened to a character. This wasn't entirely the case, but the seriously frustrating problems here were the sheer implausibility of the characters. When one is a police inspector covering a murder enquiry one does not fall in love with the suspect to the extent that evidence tampering is the number one priority. To do their job, police inspectors must have a finely-tuned sense of consequences, both in terms of crime and criminal procedures. This drama threw away so much credibility I nearly switched off two or three times. Emotionally unstable police inspectors have surely had their 15 minutes of scripted fame, along with the predictable cliché of inspector to subordinate detective tension. The actors are worthy of so much better material.

I quite enjoyed this. Mostly, I admit, because of Paul McGann, but the other performers were excellent. I, too, figured out "whodunit" early on, but mostly by a process of elimination. I think the writer and director (and cast) did a good job of keeping the blame shifting from person to person throughout the story. In fact, I think it's because audiences have become so jaded (or sophisticated) that we *expect* the twists. It would have been a bigger surprise if it had, in fact, turned out to be one of the two main suspects. It almost seemed that the writers/directors didn't really know whether they were making a police procedural or a psychological mystery/thriller.

I have Just watched it, really enjoyed it although i did guess the ending about half way through as the wife would confirm so it was a spoiler for her!!. It HAD to be good,i mean Paul McGann , Mark Benton & Sarah Parish in the cast to me means good. Won't comment on the plot as don't want to spoil it for anybody waiting to see it but i did stay with it for two hours, saving calls of nature for the commercial breaks which to me is a sign that i was hooked.It clashed with a BBC extravaganza about Krakatoa which is right up my street but i chose to record that and watch at a later date so i had an instinct that this was worth watching "live". I wasn't wrong, i.m.h.o.