Please don't spend money on this.

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

I have only recently watched Occupation, despite the fact that it came out in 2009, and I was pleasantly surprised. The drama certainly enthrals you from the first episode and is fast moving so it is almost impossible to be bored. The three main characters were played by James Nesbitt, Stephen Graham and Warren Brown. I thought that the performances from Brown and particularly Graham were brilliant and clearly showed the emotional strain on their characters but also how they coped with it so differently. On the other hand, I felt that the performance from Nesbitt was a little wooden. In fact, Nesbitt was completely eclipsed particularly in scenes played opposite Monica Dolan (his wife) who delivered a brilliantly heart-rending performance throughout. I would definitely recommend anyone to watch this but be prepared for some pretty emotional scenes.

OK i'm currently looking at this series as part of an assignment I'm doing and frankly every comment made on this site has been amazingly helpful and insightful.what i find most bankable about this whole series is that every comment made on here seems to be completely devoid of any suggestion that the series has an ulterior political motive, or that this is just a piece of propaganda. whats more it doesn't seem to have a set view on the war in Iraq, or the whether the world should have ever got involved in it.so as this can only be described at the best as entertainment i have to call it outstanding entertainment as it doesn't rely on anything but its story to captivate its audience. i read earlier comments from people who think that a lot of it is very OTT or over blown Hollywood crap, and that in an effort to make the series seem more realistic they have in fact madeit boring.the sense of realism for me doesn't come from the series set pieces it comes from it's characters. i feel fully able to engage with the characters on screen and do not feel uncomfortable, or at any time bored with what i'm seeing. this is because i feel that the series has managed to completely capture the realism of the war through the representation of the marines on screen.this series was not done to just provide entertainment or to influence anyones opinion. it was made to pay tribute to those men who fought then and are fighting now, and the only way that that was ever going to be possible was if the series stayed true to its source material, and true to reality and in my opinion i think it has raised the bar and set new grounds for film and television making.

Well made and quite gripping.However, I thought it was totally unconvincing that Danny and Lester were capable of running a successful military contractor company. Danny was completely unstable and had no aptitude for business or level-headedness.So Lester must have done all the organizing and thinking, though we never saw any of that take place. But why in the world would Lester trust Danny and think he was a suitable business partner?Another thing that seemed unlikely: the Americans and Iraqis were easily able to understand the British characters' strong accents (Northern Ireland, Manchester, and Newcastle?). I had plenty of difficulty understanding what they were saying, and I'm British and sitting comfortably at home, and sometimes even rewinding it or switching the volume up.

I am 17, and I have seen TV dramas that often falls into mawkish sentimentality and confusion. Occupation however is one of those rarities, the whole drama was just superb in every aspect, I couldn't fault it at all. I personally think it is one of the best dramas ever on the BBC in recent years. The acting was just brilliant, the three leads James Nesbitt, Warren Brown and Stephen Graham giving towering and sometimes emotional performances as three men with different reasons for returning to Basra, all of which are explained clearly. They are all aided by a wonderful script by Peter Bowker, haunting music, subtle direction from Nick Murphy and superb camera-work, making the look of the drama more realistic than it was. The scene in the hospital in particular is worth mentioning, as it was so powerful and perhaps even moving. The drama concludes with a harrowing and heart-rending climax, making it an unmissable and enormously satisfying drama from the BBC. 10/10 Bethany Cox.