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The Copenhagen Test is the latest import to make the transmission to primetime UK telly, given all the budget cuts.<\/p>\n The Copenhagen Test is the latest import to make the transmission to primetime UK telly, given all the budget cuts.<\/p>\n
In a long-ago Call Of Duty-style Belarus mission out in the field, Alexander Hale (Simu Liu \u2013 In Your Dreams<\/a>) is told there\u2019s only room on the chopper for one hostage, and to prioritise Americans\u2026 so, chooses a local young boy, instead\u2026 in fact, I could tell this was how that scene would play out, before it was even completed, in numerous segments.<\/p>\n We learn in the modern day, The Orphanage is a \u2018watcher\u2019 for the US Intelligence Community, effectively an \u2018Internal Affairs\u2019 for all American clandestine agencies. It has never been compromised, we\u2019re told.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Three years on, he\u2019s busted down to an analyst, but misses out on field work. Yet, since The Copenhagen Test is all about conspiracy theory nonsense, where he believes his brain has been hacked (as if), then this just feels like a drawn-out and dull version of Total Recall, with side helpings of the old comic cartoon, The Numbskulls, since the governmenet can see out of a subject\u2019s own eyes.<\/p>\n On the plus side, they can remove it and he\u2019s out of intelligence, or they can keep the hack open, and he\u2019ll see and here only what they want him to, whilst using him to take some bad guys down. Yeah, I\u2019d be out of that, but obviously, he\u2019s in because without that, there\u2019d be no show.<\/p>\n Baddies make their presence obvious, by having a big fight right in front of protagonists Hale and Michelle (Melissa Barrera \u2013 Abigail<\/a>), but\u2026 it\u2019s all just so drawn out. I\u2019m sure you could do all this in half the time, and make it a damn sight more interesting. In fact, it reminds me of Amazon Prime\u2019s Citadel<\/a>, which broke the bank at $300m, and for which they lost their shirt, and presumably, someone lost their job for commissioning it.<\/p>\n NOTE: I saw the US broadcast of this.<\/p>\n The Copenhagen Test begins tomorrow night on Channel 4 at 9pm, with two episodes apiece each Weds and Thursday, for two weeks. Once broadcast, all episodes will be on All 4<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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