Ultimate Force is a well made action/drama series that certainly pushed to boundaries as what can be shown on TV. It is well made, both in terms of drama and in terms of the action scenes. The ideology is sometimes fairly hard to stomach when -apart from normal commando routine- the SAS take the law into their own hands. That's beyond the realism of a commando unit and I sometimes found that hard to stomach. The format changed from 45 minutes episodes in the first two seasons to feature length episodes in seasons 3&4. With the exit of some popular characters a new twist was added: the troop was joined by a female soldier, Becca. This has been criticised as political correctness but one has to bear two things in mind: after the switch to a 60/90 minutes format additional elements to supply drama were needed and Becca's arrival fulfilled this need. Secondly, Ultimate Force is not a documentary but a drama series loosely based on the SAS, it was never meant to be anything but fiction. In fact Becca works fine as a character and her arrival is precisely not a point in case about feminism. Overall, from my point of view, the standard of writing got much better in seasons 3&4 as the new format allowed for more depth of character and more interesting / evolving story lines as opposed to the first two seasons where plots usually just revolved around one particular incident. All in all, it's rather entertaining and well made.
Review of Ultimate Force
