Reviews

I lived in Shipley, Bradford during this, because I worked as an engineer and I banked in Shipley I was interviewed by the police during this investigation. I knew Peter Sutcliffe's brother Carl, I knew his Employer Willy Clarke. I don't know whether I ever met Peter Sutcliffe because he looked like 100's of guys back in the 70's. This series is very complimentary on the level of gross ineptitude and incompetence by the West Yorkshire police at this time. They were literally beyond useless during the whole of this investigation. This series highlights the plight of the victims which is an interesting perspective never really touched on before. It also highlights the level of prejudice and misogyny in police ranks waged against women of what was seen to be low moral character. The Yorkshire Ripper was more prolific than the Whitechapel murders in 1889, he was caught by mere chance by vigilant police officers in Sheffield , if this hadn't have happened, he might never have been caught.

Ridley Scott's Extended Cut is an infinitely better film than the cinematic release, as are most of his Extended Cut movies, they're obviously nearer to the original script. The screenplay by Cormack McCarthy, who also wrote No Country for Old Men shows insight with depth and poetic overtones. The original cinematic release doesn't make sense and is disjointed. Whereas this edit does work.