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A very disappointing messy and badly made documentary that was absolutely all over the place. The premise of the mini series was very attractive, a telling of the famed soprano like ice cream mafia of the 80s but the first episode was an absolute whirlwind of bad editing, random tangents that went absolutely nowhere and after about half an hour I realized that wasn't very good. I could not follow what an earth was going on, who anybody was or really what the ice cream wars was really about. It's a shame as the trailer is thoroughly engaging and made me feel as though I was going to be entertained and be educated on a very unique part of Glasgow's history but alas the first episode gave me absolutely nothing to go with and I stopped watching.

I agree with somebody else who said that this does not qualify as a film. It really doesn't. It's basically just a couple of actors in a room. Just talking philosophical nonsense. Even David Lynch with his abstract artistic take on movies would blush at this. The big problem here is that we were all miss sold. I have the DVD of this and on the cover is Alec Baldwin standing behind a police scene? There's even a shot of the Brooklyn bridge which implies scale to this movie, the title of "an imperfect murder" in Britain. Gives the sense that this is going to be a thrilling but cheap and cheerful movie in which I like Baldwin catches the bad guys and there will be twists and turns but after about 20 minutes I knew what was happening. I knew I'd been conned and knew I had been duped. This is some wild tax evasion scheme in which money was put into this film. They somehow got Alec Baldwin and just made potentially the worst film of all time.

Harold literally abandones his wife to help someone who he doesn't really know. Maureen is totally in the right! Harold has obviously lost his mind and I'm not even joking or being facetious. This guy literally goes to a garage. Some 20-year-old petrol attendant says one inspiring thing and then he flips out and decides he's going to walk 400 mi. Maybe the screenwriters thought that this was a good idea, but this is one of those ideas where you think about it and then 20 minutes later you come to your senses and go. Actually that's a terrible idea for a film. I'm not going to do it. I've had better ideas for films that I've scrapped the entire film after that just gets more confusing and quite depressing. But hey people bought it and sky bought it so I guess it is what it is.