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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0054961841592
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Acorn Media
Manufacturer: Acorn Media
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Acorn Media
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 25, 2006
Running Time: 139 minutes
Sales Rank: 21452
Studio: Acorn Media
Theatrical Release Date: January 16, 2006
Editorial Review:
Description:
Based on Ian Rankin’s bestselling crime thrillers
Ken Stott (Shallow Grave, The Vice, Messiah) brings the brooding Inspector John Rebus to life on screen, straight off the pages of Edgar®-winning Ian Rankin’s crime novels. Haunted by his own failings and the human tragedies that he faces every day, Rebus relentlessly pursues truth under the leaden skies of modern-day Edinburgh. His eager young sidekick, DS Siobhan Clarke (Claire Price, Poirot: The Hollow, The Whistle-Blower) resents Rebus’s condescending manner at first, but grudgingly comes to respect her gruff partner’s abilities. Together, they conduct their investigations under the watchful and sometimes jealous eye of their boss, Chief Super Gill Templer (Jennifer Black, Local Hero)—Rebus’s former flame.
With its sardonic, hard-drinking hero, twisting plots, and atmospherics as dense as fog off the firth, Rebus serves up two engrossing mysteries in the best film noir tradition.
Amazon.com:
Rebus: Set 1 includes the first two episodes in the morally and narratively complex, British mystery television series in which actor Ken Stott (I'll Sleep When I'm Dead) replaces John Hannah as the Edinburgh, Scotland detective inspector created by novelist Ian Rankin. The middle-aged John Rebus and young partner Siobhan Clarke (Claire Price, replacing Gayanne Potter) take on a bizarre serial killer in 'The Falls,' a vengeance-seeking killer taking aim at the members of a wealthy family and their acquaintances in the medical profession. 'Fleshmarket Close' is a sad story set in a poor immigrant community little-known to Edinburgh tourists. The disappearance of a young woman from a housing project brings Rebus and Clarke into a case that quickly grows with the murder of a Kurdish man and the vanishing of a local hoodlum. The link between all these people proves baffling, but the case takes the lid off a protection racket, abuses at a detention center holding innocent immigrants, and a few secrets suppressed by well-meaning community activists. Viewers and readers familiar with Rebus won't be surprised by the way the hero's personal life frequently intertwines with his cases. Few detective heroes are surrounded by as many ex-lovers as the aging Scots sleuth. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - This is not the right Rebus
This is a jolly Rebus without the heft of soul or grittiness needed for true Rebusness. Stott, though he might look the part, is too full of himself, he sports a self-satisfied air that is almost anti-Rebus. The Hannah Rebus is far closer to the real thing plus it has Cafferty. Hannah is perhaps not ideal but he is a good enough actor to pull it off. Skip the Stott and go for the Hannah Rebus. That's my advice.
Rating:  - It's A Keeper
"Rebus," is another superb British crime drama/police procedural television series, based on the work of best selling Scottish author Ian Rankin. We've been seeing this series on BBC America, though it is not a British Broadcasting Corporation production; rather one by Independent Television (ITV). The series is set in the beautiful tourist city of Edinburgh, capital of Scotland, as are the author's works; however, in this production, as in the books on which it's based, we see the beautiful tourist ... Read More
Rating:  - Casting is spot on, but...
Ken Stott looks the part of Rebus more than John Hannah, and Claire Price DEFINITELY looks the part of Siobhan more than Gayanne Potter. The supporting cast is equally effective, and the stories (Ian Rankin's The Falls and Fleshmarket Close) are translated to the screen reasonably well.
Still, things are definitely lacking here. Gone was every ounce of Rebus' ongoing personal narrative, and the stories are much weaker for it. Gone also was that sense of self-destructiveness that is so very ... Read More
Rating:  - This is not John Hannah's Rebus. It's better.
Hannah is a likable appealing actor, and his performances as Rebus were fine, but I never felt he truly inhabited the part. Ken Stott, on the other hand, is a much more versatile actor and is simply better suited to bring Rankin's sleuth to life. He gives these films a center of gravity that Hannah just didn't.
On some level, I suppose this is a matter of personal preference, in the same way that people insist that David Suchet is the definitive Poirot (which he arguably is) or that no one but ... Read More
Rating: - This is not John Hannah's Rebus
The gentle man on the cover is not John Hannah of The Mummy Fame there is another Rebus which includes author Ian Rankin's Scottish Detective Rebus Hide and Seek, Knots and Crosses and Tooth and Nail are the 2nd, 1st and 3rd books which introduce Rebus. The 1st 3 Scottish TV series were named the same. I first saw them while living in Dundee I'm not sure if this was the first attempt at portraying Rebus but this is not the succesful Scottish TV series like Taggart
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