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This is the story of an ordinary car salesman who it turns out used to be a government assassin. Predictably his past catches up with him and he goes on a road trip from Buffalo New York to Las Vegas with his family inculding a young baby. They have no idea about his past and he hides them being chased across country. It is comical how he hides people out to kill him from his family, on one occasion by the use of bluetooth and Enya.

I only watched this for Mark Wahlberg. Its all a bit predictable. The comic bits are the best. The action is good but found a bit dull.

Its no an amazing film or something that will stay with you. But it is a decent film that everyone will like. Its worth a watch at least once.

This three parter tells the story of Mazher Mahmood, the fake sheikh. I try and avoid documentary series as some of them stretch a story out to 10 parts and get dull and slow. This however moved quickly and keeps your interest. It could have maybe stretched to a fourth part but it never drags.

It does try and talk to a range of people. Journalists who worked at the paper at the same time (but weren't in his little private circle). People who helped him with stings and wound people in. "Victims" of his stings. Even his partner at one point.

However the man himself and some of the key players obviously did not want to take part which does leave it a little one sided. Especially what really made them go after the celebrities in the first place. It is quite obvious that everyone is not as innocent as they try and make out.

I actually felt sorry for him in the end. He did do some good stories. He brought down some people who thought they could do what they wanted by using their racism and greed against them. However he ended up trying a bit too hard and no-one reigned him in. It says a lot that all he supposedly did but it was a simple case of getting his driver to take back a statement about what he heard that brought him down.

I'm in the UK so this was very foreign to me. It was very interesting though. Why and how these people keep these places going. They were all the same but different. I really did enjoy it though.

The only criticism is it seemed to try and feature too many places. It was hard to keep track and care for so many different places. It was obvious that some where more interesting than others. To be honest I only remember about four of them.

It would also have been interesting to hear more from the customers of why they visit in the days of streaming. There was a little bit of it but it seemed like an afterthought.

Well worth a watch though and you really do end up hoping and believe some of these places can survive.