A Christmas Carol (TV Mini Series) Chapter Three: A Bag of Gravel (2019) User Reviews

Lots packed in here.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 9/10 · 26 December 2019]

Scrooge is visited by the Ghost of Christmas present, and by the very sinister Ghost of Christmas Future.

There is a lot of content, it concludes on a high. Still hugely atmospheric and bleak, the question was always going to be about Scrooge, would there be any sort of redemption for him or not.

The ghosts are excellent, in the forms of Charlotte Riley and Jason Flemyng. Pearce continues to impress hugely as Ebeneezer.

This has gotten better and better as it's gone on. Perhaps the best episode of the three. 9/10

A deserving conclusion

[garybulmer-32925 · 10/10 · 23 December 2019]

It is a deserving conclusion to this near perfect bbc miniseries.

A very interesting version of a classic

[sesstegmeyer · 10/10 · 24 December 2019]

I found this movie (a series of 3, 53 min episodes all run together) a very interesting and intriguing take on the classic version. It is a dark, creepy well acted spin. I loved it. I've actually watched it 3 times already! The characters are seen from a completely new and sometimes shocking perspective. I found it to be very entertaining.

a beautiful work

[Kirpianuscus · 26 December 2019]

An episode of ladies . Because Vinette Robinson and Charlotte Riley are the stars of it, giving beautiful performances and creating admirable characters. The episode gives the perfect Tim Cratchit. And a noble message. Its sin - maybe the end. But it is difficult to choose the fair end , in this case, the desire to save the life of a child as heart of profound change, the work of Scrooge on the frozen lake - not so convincing - are noble exercises to propose something reasonable. Because this serie, slow, dark, cold, nuanced - maybe too nuanced- is a beautiful work. Proposing questions, not giving the Christmas spirit support or the most faithful version of the novel. After the end of the last episode, I admitt - it is an inspired experiment. And the scene of the drowning of Tiny Tim remains just memorable.

Why Bother?

[Hitchcoc · 4/10 · 22 December 2019]

The series ends where it begins, in a pit of depravity. Tiny Time, a little deformed boy is at the center of Scrooge's penance. But everything is so convoluted. We have no charm, no light, no joy of any kind. There are surreal events that leave no semblance of the original. I am often viewing versions of the Dickens classic. I will leave this one behind.

A Unique and Perfect Christmas Gift

[ungercd · 10/10 · 28 October 2020]

So impressed with how well This movie was made. ...and the music in the church in the woods is beautiful.

Episode 3

[Prismark10 · 4/10 · 25 December 2019]

The final episode needed to pack a lot in given how slowly the first two episodes moved.

Yet it still felt slow despite two spirits trying to appeal to Scrooge's better nature.

I also wondered how the exuberant and the overly saccharine finale from the Dickens story would be dealt with in this production. Well at least writer Steven Knight toned down the sentimentality.

I knew this version of A Christmas Carol would be a darker and grimmer take on the story. I did not mind that. It takes potshots at global capitalism and asset strippers. It was a story that should had been told in two hours.

Brilliant brilliant brilliant

[dldavidlittle · 10/10 · 24 December 2019]

My new favourite adaptation of a Christmas Carol. Fantastic emotional twist on a classic.

As if Scrooge wasn't dark enough...

[shartzog-1 · 5/10 · 24 December 2019]

While well-acted and visually compelling -- the cinematography actually looks old, cold and dark -- there's very little redemptive or uplifting about this "retelling" of the Christmas classic. Its revelation of the horrible, tragic origins of Scrooge's sociopathy is believable, but the spirits' means of delivering him from the aftermath of a stolen and psychotically abusive childhood are equally dark, depraved and Godless. I doubt Dickens would approve.