Reichenbach Falls (2007)

Cautiously Recommended

UK

Television Film

Director: John McKay

Writers: James Mavor, Ian Rankin

Cinematographer: Neville Kidd

Composer: Martyn Swain

Cast: Alec Newman, Alastair Mackenzie, Nina Sosanya, Laura Fraser, John Sessions, Richard Wilson

This playful and generally entertaining if somewhat inelegant BBC drama, a de-Rebusised adaptation of Ian Rankin’s metafictional Rebus short story, follows the attempts of a gruff, hard-drinking, heavy-smoking Edinburgh detective as he attempts to get over the death of his partner and his wife’s leaving of him for his best friend, whilst he investigates a 100-year-old murder in the company of a shapely new partner. Iain.Stott