I stumbled across this title while browsing a streaming network and decided to watch it based initially just on the fact that one of my all time favorite actors (David Thewlis) was in it. The film turned out to be a beautifully shot, well staged story with a well chosen cast. Exhibited was a complex emotional range by all involved which led to an organic, believable and authentic journey into the lives, hearts and minds of the main characters. Having worked for many years in the industry makes me notoriously hard to please and with that being said, this film passed my scrutiny with flying colors.

Too predictable and followed an all-too-popular modern script of framing a historical story in modern terms. Very preachy and almost made you sympatic to the anti-heroes. Any number of better endings could have worked, but this failed. David Thewlis was the only redeeming actor in the film, and he tried hard to make his character believable, but I think he also felt the story lacked reality and it showed.

I was initially hesitant as the poster was not particularly attractive, but I am glad that I did not judge this book by it's cover.It was quite obvious that this was a piece created for the theatre, and fortunately the actors managed to pull of this filmed version perfectly.It's one of those pieces where each word has a sense, where each movement and each reaction has meaning.JB Priestly understood how to portray society and it's problems down to a tee.This piece/film/play is as pertinent today as it was in it's époque.I thoroughly recommend this film as one of those that at first appears to be a slightly superficial but with some retrospection we are understand how deep it actually descends.Definitely worth watching... I have never read any of JB Priestly works but this has given me the initiative to discover this playwright/author..

After watching this movie adaptation of An Inspector Calls, I felt that this remake turned into a great success. At first the characters weren't what I expected, most of them seemed quite simple and bland and thought that the actors weren't suited to to their roles. But as the film progressed my attitude towards the characters changes, Eric and Sheila aren't the spoiled brats I thought they were- they actually care about the death of this young woman. Gerald, I realized has more emotional depth Han I gave him credit for, but Mr and Mrs Birling we're exactly what I thought they'd be like and their attitudes towards Eva didn't really change. As for the Inspector I thought that David Thewlis did a great job being the Inspector and his character was also amazing but what I didn't like about the Inspector was that towards the end of the film, he starts time traveling (Priestly hinted that the Inspector was supernatural) but I started getting very confused and became unsure of if he was there before she died and it was a flash back or he is the reason she is dead... I have no idea. But overall this was an amazing movie and I really enjoyed it.