Strike Back (TV Series) Legacy: Part 10 (2015) User Reviews

By far the best show on TV

[thatcharlie · 10/10 · 1 November 2015]

This is by far the best show on TV (for me at least). Even my partner says, and I quote "it's like watching an intense action movie each week".

For a TV Series, the plots are brilliant, the scripts are brilliant and the production quality is brilliant! The on-screen presence and relationship of the characters is just superb and each time, the budget just keeps getting bigger and bigger. The outcome... a high octane mix of action, emotion, current affairs and bullets, explosions, blood, more explosions, more bullets and hand to hand combat. What more could you want? The only bad thing about this show, is that this was the last episode of the show.

I'm a big Chris Ryan fan and it's good to see this fantastic adaptation of on the screen. I just wish they'd carry on making it.

I entirely disagree with the previous reviewer that this is a 'mediocre' series. It was a fantastic comeback and deserves all the credit of the quality and entertainment of the series. Just brilliant!

Bittersweet ending - Season review

[Wikingking · 6/10 · 24 August 2015]

I really don't know what to say...Strike Back was something special to me since the story of John Porter ended and the 'buddies' got introduced. It was a fun, action-packed, dramatic, tense ride and this 5th season really wasn't that different, so why do I complain? You know it's like really good roller-coaster compared to a mediocre. They kind of have the same traits: fast, long, etc. but somehow one is much much better than the other. This 5th season was the mediocre one, unfortunately. We had a nice little back-story, a somewhat menacing antagonist, we had the good acting and lot's of bullets were fired. Still, this came out mediocre. The second half of the season (or maybe the whole) felt like the staff and crew knew that this is going to be the last one, and instead of taking the opportunity to kick some major butt for a very last time, they went stolid and phlegmatic, like 'why bother?!'. The writing was especially bad in most cases, considering all the situations Scott and Stonebridge had to solve. I can't believe that the writers still kept themselves to the templates of making section 20 look like a bunch of unlucky idiots: they keep screwing every mission while coming out alive and victorious at the end. They make one step forward and two steps backwards. There just has to be another way to keep things interesting for the audience, or is it (not to mention that somehow Scott manages to sleep with all those women again, no matter what, even in the most impossible locations and under the most ridiculous circumstances...)

One last thing: I know that Sulliven Stapleton had an injury and they had to delay shootings. Still, there is no way a battle-hardened soldier could look like the way he looks during the last episode with all that fat around his belly. They didn't even care this time. And that's unfortunate.

Attention to detail

[jasonsykes-77293 · 1 June 2019]

In the final shootout in the barn, the slo-Mo close up empty spent hitting the floor are actually spent blank rounds. Notice the crimp at the end.