Excellent acting and writing and good quality packaging
341005
After all of these years it has been great to get back to the STNG early shows and see the crew members getting to know each other.  Great action and humor.
306729
Well written and acted. Looked forward to every episode.
Excellent ending, fast-forwarding to the future and each of the characters deaths.

The series gift set was packaged beautifully. I had absolutely no problems with the outer packaging or the dvd's themselves. And I got it for a steal at $114--thought I was seeing things when I saw the price on here, so I snapped it up.
4932923
Awesome movie. Great packaging and super high quality picture and sound. Awesome!
891435
I bought this because I watched all the Montalbano originals and liked them , too.  The Young Montalbano is an excellent actor and the whole cast does a fantastic job.  I am hoping they make some more of these programs as 6 is not enough.
I will buy them and I recommend them to people of any age.  There is humor, pathos, and suspense.  Do not hesitate to buy it.
1108057
Excellently filmed, great dialogs and enjoyable characters.
2858188
Excellent writing and superb acting.  This was a wonderful mini-series.
4418411
The picture and sound quality is great and watching the films in hi def all over again was awesome - especially the second one.

I love this box set packaging.  It really is different and just makes you want to sit there are read through the 'pages'.  The art work is great.  The only thing I would say is that you need to be a little careful when 'lifting' the discs out from the sleeve as I think it could be easy to tear the card.  I wish they had put a bit more thought into this but otherwise this is brilliant.
3312275
I usually find murder mystery dramas a hit-or-miss affair but Foyle's War has renewed my faith in a genre that has largely been done to death in recent years.

Foyle's War is superbly written with great acting from all the main characters (as well as supporting cast and guest stars) - in particular, of course, Michael Kitchen as the rather sobering Christopher Foyle.

Foyle is a rather complex detective, with an inner turmoil of morality and upholding the law (though upholding the law is his final prerogative). For exmaple, there is an episode where a warden has been caught looting from a bombed house and a new emergency law means that the thieving warden will be hanged as a looter. The warden cannot believe, in his niavity, that his crime deserves  punishment of such gravitus. Through Kitchen's subtle facial expressions, we can sense a conflict between the severity of the warden's inevitable punishment and the duty to uphold the law, especially in the cruel time of war. To me, that makes great acting - not what the character says, or how it is said, but what the character says in silence.

War fever England is recreated realistically with actual historical facts incorporated into the fictional story (such as internment camps for German citizens).

Each episode is approx 100 minutes long (uncut versions) and are complex enough to have ample replay value.

If you like intelligent, well written dramas with great acting I highly recommend Foyle's War.
4655786
Very well crafted and thoughtful film. The commitment to the acting was exceptional.
527609
The acting was superb and the plot had several unexpected twists. I haven't seen Noah Wyle in any movies in quite some time and was glad to see him acting once again. I thought Jeremy Irvine's acting was awesome! as well.  It would have been nice to have confirmed that he and the girl were together at the last although I don't think he left town with her. Excerpts from the civil war doctor's old  journal being intertwined throughout the story line was a nice touch. Just enough of the journal was read without being overdone. The idea of civil war mistrust among families of this region  a century ago carrying down to ancestors of the present was a novel idea: I liked how it was woven into the story.
29506
I was very cautious of buying this box set after reading many reviews complaining about the poor quality of the packaging, there were many complaints on scratched discs.  The price was marked down to under 80 dollars which was the lowest I have seen it sold new out of every other online shopping site I searched (the lowest price on bing.com shopping was just over 80 dollars after their cashback program) so i broke down and purchased it.  I was nervous upon opening the box fearing I would find a jumbled mess of discs that had come out of their packaging during shipping but contrary to the experience of other reviewers, the discs were safely tucked into their slots.  The packaging itself is not the best ever made as the discs are tucked into little pockets in a cardboard "booklet" but i inspected each disc thoroughly and saw no scratches or defects, I have yet to actually play the discs but they look like they are in perfect condition.  I do not plan to use the cardboard booklet in the packaging as permanent storage for the discs, I plan to store them in Gem disc cases (thin versions of what most CD's come in) for safer storage, but as for all the bad reviews on the packaging and receiving damaged discs, either I was lucky and got a good set or Amazon fixed the problem with shipping.  So my advice if you are going to purchase this set, don't be turned off by all the bad reviews about receiving damaged discs, I almost was and almost missed out on a great deal on a box set which would have costed me much much more if I purchased the seasons individually.

As for the series itself, I don't want to beat a dead horse, there are already very many reviews posted.  My advice here is to go watch Stargate the movie and if you enjoy that movie, imagine it with Micheal Shanks (with a better haircut and stronger acting), Richard Dean Anderson (who doesn't love him from MacGuiver), Amanda Tapping, and Christopher Judge, and a much longer storyline that visits many other worlds complete with other friends and many other enemies.  The episodes run from action packed shoot-em-up story lines to very well written dramatic ones, as well as a few tear jerkers here and there.  In my opinion this is one of the best sci-fi series out there.  I ended up watching it with a roomate in college out of boredom not expecting to really get into it but as soon as I watched the fisrt few episodes i found myself staying up until 2 or 3 in the morning watching 4 or 5 episodes a night, yes, it was that good.

So to sum it all up, I would rate this product as 5 stars (only because there isn't a six star rating) in both content of the discs and in packaging, as I love the series itself and I had no issues with damaged products.  Again I only reccomend that unless you plan on never removing and replacing the discs from their original packaging, store the discs in a safer container designed to safely store DVD's.
605694
When this first appeared on television a while back I had taped it via VCR.  Unfortunately, tapes don't always last as long as you'd like, and mine eventually went the route of all used tapes.  Finding this on DVD was a boon, and once more I can enjoy the adventure and humor of a fantastic set of actors and actresses.  Willy Nelson, Jack Elam, and Gerald McRainey are excellent in their roles of hunted and hunter, and Delta Burke as the "soiled dove" with a heart is also excellent.  I highly recommend this for sharing a bowl of popcorn and just sitting back and enjoying.
4620367
very well made storyline outstanding  acting  from start to finish worth seeing and owning
1567804
I was very happily surprised that they did such wonderful quality on making it a real (-ish) story. The acting, film quality and sets etc. were also very good.
3954356
Well-written entertainment.  Excellent acting and good storyline.
3358659
I didn't actually order this.  My wife did.

Normally I'd give a crap review to her shows, because she becomes kind of obsessed with them and doesn't go out and enjoy life.  In this case, I must admit, the show really delivers.

I've only seen portions of a couple of episodes, but from what I've seen, the writing and plot is intriguing and fresh.  The acting, especially the main, is superb.  She subtly delivers a different persona for several characters and pulls it off seamlessly.  Jumping between drama and humour (sometimes dark) the story is always thrilling and unexpected.

So, I have no choice but to give it numerous stars.  If I liked dramas more it would have received 5 stars, but I don't, and so I haven't actually watched much of it.
2639431
The characters were well written, the actors were excellent. The movie was moving without being sentimental.  This film is worth purchasing!