Cracker-New Terror (2007)

"Gripping...  The New York Times

Editor's Note The British television crime series CRACKER stars Robbie Coltrane (FROM HELL, HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX) as the brilliant but troubled criminal psychologist Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald. CRACKER - A NEW TERROR: THE FINAL EPISODE sees Fitz returning to England after living in Australia for the last 10 years. The psychologist decides to take on one last case when Kenny, a former British soldier traumatized by his experiences with the IRA, becomes insane after the 9/11 attacks and murders an American comedian.

	Andrea Lowe
	Anthony Flanagan
	Robbie Coltrane
	Stefanie Wilmore
	Anna Pritchard - Art Director
	Antonia Bird - Director
	Christopher Barwell - Editor
	Florian Hoffmeister - Cinematographer
	Jimmy McGovern - Writer
	John Chapman - Producer
	Louise Mutter - Producer
	Tom Bowyer - Production Designer

Variety 6 of 10
Initial excitement about Robbie Coltrane reprising his role as the BBC's flawed, boozing, womanizing criminal psychologist is snowed under by the heavy-handed political statement writer Jimmy McGovern is determined to deliver within this revival vidpic. Jolting at first in its message -- namely, that Americans are a bunch of whiny namby-pambies who didn't care a whit about terrorism before it came crashing onto our doorstep -- McGovern's chest-clearing rant overwhelms the narrative and mutes the pleasure of seeing Fitz back on the case...A decade has passed since Coltrane's Fitz developed a well-deserved cult following in the U.S. that included a short-lived ABC series that (poorly) sought to adapt the character for domestic consumption. Here, we find him visiting the U.K. from Australia for his daughter's wedding, being every bit as pugnacious as ever, when he's drawn back by an unsolved murder...For all the gripping psychological crimers churned out by the BBC, "Cracker's" "new terror" actually reflects an old showbiz excess -- something called a "vanity project." - Brian Lowry