A Masterpiece!

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Part 1 of End of Time is average at best. It has lots of problems like the Master having super powers and can eat people and jump 1000 ft in the air somehow and he can turn into a weird skeleton The Master is literally brought back by magic. A bunch women circle round a him pouring poshens in a boul. Then they say bring back the master or something along those lines and he comes back to life. Those women literally cast a spell and then took Lucy Saxson's lipstick off like a bloody witch making an enchantment. This is Doctor Who, not Merlin! Then Lucy throws some sort of liquid over the Master and the prison Lucy is locked in blows up somehow but the Master somehow survives it and then the Master starts going on about all the food he wants. And it's so annoying! Even before the Master is resurrected, he's able to get into people's dreams somehow which doesn't make any sense. The Doctor is also a problem. He also starts going on about how changing feels like dying and how it's a new man replacing him which doesn't make any sense because he's still the same person.The upsides are that the Christmassy things and Wilfred, Donna and Sylvia are brilliant as usual and very funny. The funniest but is when Wilfred mocks the TARDIS saying that he thought it would be cleaner. That was so funny. And the woman, who spoke to Wilfred through the television, I thought her addition was quite intruiging because I really wanted to find out who she was. Part 1 isn't very good. It makes no sense and the Doctor and Master are so out of character. The upsides are the Nobles. They were brilliant as usual and that's why I'd give it a 4/10.

This episode is a total mess. It has plots here - more plots there - and more over there - and none of them make sense. For example, there's the resurrection of the master and the whole thing with Lucy Saxon and all those people...what happened to them. Then the master's superpowers...where did they come from. Basically I think the point of the episode was to get as many people and special effects into it as possible. I mean, the superpowers aren't even needed for the story - they just ruin it. The whole episode cannot be described as anything more than little odd ideas stuck together by little bits of loose tape that just marginally form the shape of a story.

After taking the good Doctor into some very dark territory with "The Waters of Mars," Russell T. Davies returns the Doctor back to his roots with "The End of Time, Part One," the first half of David Tennant's final story as the Tenth Doctor. From the very beginning of the episode, Davies intends to create a memorable story to give Tennant a fond farewell. And the story really is brilliant, exciting, wacky, and scary in the tradition of classic "Doctor Who." The cast and crew do a fantastic job of creating this amazing story, preparing us for the second half of the story, which promises to give Tennant an epic, fantastic farewell. While some may find it too outlandish, it does so with great fun and excitement, making it worthwhile. And the cliffhanger is the biggest, most exciting one yet, ending the show on a double-whammy! Longtime fans will surely love it! Allons-y! Grade: A+

As time runs out for David Tennant's Doctor an old foe returns and a greater danger lurks in the back ground; not being revealed till the final scene. Even though he was killed in a previous episode followers of The Master have found a way to bring him back. Once back The Master is hungry, very, very hungry and also quite insane; watching him devour a turkey is a sight to behold. The Ood have alerted The Doctor that time is literally running out so he returns to Earth where everybody is being haunted by a dream which nobody except Donna's grand father Wilfred Mott can remember.The Master is captured by a wealthy individual who has taken position of alien technology which can cure anything; including ageing, he expects The Master to repair the machine so he could bestow immortality on his daughter, The Master has another use for it though, a use that will have effects for almost all of humanity and causes Donna's memories to return; memories that could do her serious harm.David Tennant did a fine job as The Doctor but John Simm stole the show being genuinely frightening as the increasingly insane Master, other fine performances were provided by David Harewood as the wealthy Joshua Naismith, Bernard Cribbins as Wilfred Mott and Timothy Dalton as the member or a race we didn't expect to see again. It was nice to see Catherine Tate return as Donna even if it was a comparatively small part compared to her previous appearances. I found the episode was slightly let down by The Master's ability to shoot beams of energy from his hands and leap hundreds of feet into the air, he didn't need these gimmicks and was much more frightening when the camera was close to his face and he was rambling insanely or devouring something. That is only a tiny complaint though and am looking forward to part two.