After 4 mediocre episodes, this show is finally back. One of the best action scenes in the history of the show, epic camera work, dark humor and the chemistry between the main actors is coming together. Like it.
4 Reviews
Finally good again
mrgroom21 November 2020
I feel this series is getting better and better...
jamietinsley812 December 2017
I, like many others, loved the first 5 series and grew to love the on screen duo of Stonebridge and Scott. So the reviews I've seen so far of this latest series are all focused on how the new cast aren't them etc etc. I'm a firm believer in giving everything a chance and because of this I'm starting to really love this new series and the new cast. I think Warren Brown and Dan Macpherson are really starting to show the on screen chemistry and one liners that Sullivan Stapleton and Phil Winchester did for so long. This episode was the best yet and featured some amazing fights. Not spoiling anything but the fight in the mansion is akin to the church fight in the Kingsman (albeit on a shorter scale) and the dialogue between Brown and MacPherson in the stolen hearse had me really laughing out loud! If you liked the previous Strike Back series then give this a watch and be open minded, you won't be disappointed.
Mary Sue to the rescue!!!
Rat_2717 February 2018
Warning: Spoilers
This episode was the most ridiculous thing I've seen in a long time. I will try to make this review a tl;dr so you don't have to watch it. It's really REALLY bad.
Starts off with the new character from last episode, and we now see he's a bad guy. Actually, really bad. And, then we get another cartoon villain. And he's Russian. Perfect!
OK, bla bla bla, the team tracks the chemical weapons and assaults the lab. More terrible muzzle sweeps. Flags all around. Then they send in the Tough Chick undercover to the Evil Russian Villain's house party disguised as a hooker (wait ... call-girl, because she is still alive, Cyril.) and of course that works flawlessly. But wait, the Evil Russian Villain wants her to deflower his virgin son and make him a man. I'm not kidding. So, she goes in, plays video games with him for a while, and learns the secret access code to the safe room that they are trying to access. Leaves the room, and then starts a brute force attack on the keypad. She knows 4 digits, and assumes that it's a 6-digit code. Might have easily been 8, or the pattern inverted. Anyway, she cracks it in 3 tries, but the system doesn't seem to mind the failed attempts. There is also a camera in the hallway pointed at the door, but security fails to notice this. They DO notice when she is in the room, and then they move to apprehend her. She grabs the ledger from the secret compartment she finds in record time, and arms herself with a letter opener, and then proceeds to kill NINE armed, trained security guards. She is then held at gunpoint, but escapes when the two "main"(?) characters serve perfectly as a distraction (as they have been doing all season), and she leaps out of a second story window to freedom. Oh yeah, she then engages targets with a handgun from the back of a speeding motorbike ... shooting INTO a crowd of funeral goers. It's OK, she is an expert marksman, and only hits the bad guys. There is a nice shot up her skirt when she jumps out the window, but that's the only good part of the entire episode.
Then the boys get captured, and get rescued by the girls. And ... we get introduced to yet another Russian cartoon villain. His name is Yuri, and he likes pickles. There is some interaction with the main bad chick, and she gets back on her mission.
So ... all of this was to say that Section 20 got the ledger, but someone named Yuri is now after them.
I am at the halfway point, and I have absolutely NOTHING good to say about the return of Strike Back. This sucks. ... Next.
Starts off with the new character from last episode, and we now see he's a bad guy. Actually, really bad. And, then we get another cartoon villain. And he's Russian. Perfect!
OK, bla bla bla, the team tracks the chemical weapons and assaults the lab. More terrible muzzle sweeps. Flags all around. Then they send in the Tough Chick undercover to the Evil Russian Villain's house party disguised as a hooker (wait ... call-girl, because she is still alive, Cyril.) and of course that works flawlessly. But wait, the Evil Russian Villain wants her to deflower his virgin son and make him a man. I'm not kidding. So, she goes in, plays video games with him for a while, and learns the secret access code to the safe room that they are trying to access. Leaves the room, and then starts a brute force attack on the keypad. She knows 4 digits, and assumes that it's a 6-digit code. Might have easily been 8, or the pattern inverted. Anyway, she cracks it in 3 tries, but the system doesn't seem to mind the failed attempts. There is also a camera in the hallway pointed at the door, but security fails to notice this. They DO notice when she is in the room, and then they move to apprehend her. She grabs the ledger from the secret compartment she finds in record time, and arms herself with a letter opener, and then proceeds to kill NINE armed, trained security guards. She is then held at gunpoint, but escapes when the two "main"(?) characters serve perfectly as a distraction (as they have been doing all season), and she leaps out of a second story window to freedom. Oh yeah, she then engages targets with a handgun from the back of a speeding motorbike ... shooting INTO a crowd of funeral goers. It's OK, she is an expert marksman, and only hits the bad guys. There is a nice shot up her skirt when she jumps out the window, but that's the only good part of the entire episode.
Then the boys get captured, and get rescued by the girls. And ... we get introduced to yet another Russian cartoon villain. His name is Yuri, and he likes pickles. There is some interaction with the main bad chick, and she gets back on her mission.
So ... all of this was to say that Section 20 got the ledger, but someone named Yuri is now after them.
I am at the halfway point, and I have absolutely NOTHING good to say about the return of Strike Back. This sucks. ... Next.
setback from series 5
nlmike19 September 2020
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