SnoopyStyle A serial killer is on the loose and the West Yorkshire Police are helpless. Assistant chief Bill Molloy breaks down on TV and Peter Hunter (Paddy Considine) from Manchester is recruited to lead a second investigation. He takes Helen Marshall and John Nolan with him. Harold Angus assigns Bob Craven to be the liaison. Hunter had investigated the Karachi Club killings which Eddie Dunford was involved with at the end of the previous movie. As the investigation continues, Hunter faces accusations of an affair with Marshall.Paddy Considine is playing a very reserved character. Most of the story is not directly connected to the missing girls story. The serial killer story wraps up in the most unsatisfying way possible but the last ten minutes do reconnect back to the original story. This is a bit of a side trip with little nuggets of information for the bigger picture.

not-gates Well shot and acted and all that, but if you think you're going to get a remotely satisfying ending with this trilogy, be forewarned. I signed up for IMDb just so I could vent at how much bulls#@!$ this final piece is. Not only does it plod along, it plods along to almost nowhere (there's a small amount of resolution), and then just kind of ends. All of the protagonists in this one are weak, and things descend into lubricious melodrama, that, on top of that, is completely implausible. Don't waste your time.Just because something is "gritty" and deals with extreme themes does not make it good. And just because a story has the "guts" to not allow for happy endings or catharsis, does not make the evil characters' actions logically plausible. The whole conspiracy in this series would be so difficult to pull off as to disallow suspension of disbelief. It's like the writer was like "we're edgy, we'll make it so that barely any justice ever happens to show that sometimes the good guys don't win. Damn, we are so raw!" But ignore how reality actually works.Damn, this mini-series (especially this installment) made me angry. I wish I could see it walking down the street so I could punch it in the face. Repeatedly.

sergepesic The second installment in the Red Riding Trilogy set in 1980, is even better than the excellent first part. The putrid corruption of the West Yorkshire police is , if possible, more pronounced three years later. Their sheer incompetence is easily revealed during the desperate search for the Yorkshire Ripper,diabolical serial killer praying on prostitutes. The atmosphere of the second part of the trilogy is as a gloomy and depressing as ever,not unlike the lives of the unfortunate souls unlucky enough to end up in this hellhole of a place. I am eagerly awaiting the ending of this harrowing story in one of the best TV project I've seen after the legendary " Prime Suspect".

dbborroughs A special investigator is called into take over the Yorkshire Ripper case because the public is screaming bloody murder. The investigator's name is Hunter and he begins by creating a small task force to go over what has been learned before and to investigate the new leads that he is turning up. Hunter almost instantly runs into trouble with the Yorkshire police who feel that he's going places he really shouldn't. He slowly begins to annoy a hornet's nest that threatens everyone, especially himself since the people he's ultimately chasing down will do anything not to have their crimes brought into the open.A different film than the first one. Its often a police procedural that takes on Noirish trappings as Hunter begins and affair and he finds that there is much darkness in the "good" guys. He also learns first hand the price of not letting it all alone. Its a leisurely film that takes its time going on its merry way. For most of the film it seems completely unconnected to the first one except that several characters appear in both films. And then toward the very end things shift. What the film has been getting at suddenly becomes clear.As a stand alone film this is okay. It goes through events and has a conclusion that works with in context. If one didn't know that stuff went before and after I'm pretty sure that you could watch the film and like it, but I don't think it will blow your skirt up that much. At the same time, if you're viewing the film as part of a trilogy, where you've seen the first part, and you know that there is a third part, the film plays so much better. To be perfectly honest I was liking the film for most of its running time,and I was perfectly content to consider letting my Dad, who came late into the film (I was watching this on IFC in Theaters), turn the station, that was until suddenly the film connects to the previous one and you suddenly see the larger picture. As a bigger picture the film is very much a better film, especially if you allow it to take you where its going on its own terms.