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I'll try my best to say why I despised this crime thriller without giving away any spoilers.

The ending was the most unsatisfying of any crime thrillers I've ever seen.

The police force was so inept, they made the cartoonish Keystone Kops seem like brilliant criminologists.

And yes, it was rife with cliche after cliche, even to the point where they nearly had the two lead detectives end up in bed. Thankfully, that didn't happen otherwise I would've stopped watching.

As Clearbay_327 noted, it was a good thing that "From Darkness" was only four episodes long. Had it been any longer, I don't know how much i would've been able to take.

In summary, Is "From Darkness' worth your while? Maybe, if you don't mind the fact that the lead character lies continuously, and nothing gets done about it or it's not discussed as a psychological defect.

Too bad. I'm sure there's a good film that could be chiseled out of Black Cab, but that remains to be seen. Maybe in the hands of a better writer, editor and director, Black Cab could've been thrilling enough to warrant a sequel.

Atmospherically, the set designers got that right with their oodles of moody/rainy darkness. Where the film falls apart is in its unoriginality. You could see where the driver was heading from a mile away. There was also nothing new about the ghosts and there were too many loose ends to consider Black Cab complete.

The general acting ranged from okay to annoying. As a former taxi driver, I watched this movie based on its description alone without reading any reviews on IMDb. I should have next time.

Yes, I was fooled by all the glowing ratings about Masum. From the high numbers posted, i was expecting something akin to the greatness that is The Godfather, Amadeus, or something else along those lines. Masum wasn't even in the same ballpark.

There may have been a little mystery and crime in the film, after all, we saw a detective and other law enforcement officials, but make no mistake about it: this was a Turkish soap opera through and through.

For the first three episodes, all you saw basically the introduction of the major players, their psychological issues, and bucks and buckets of tears streaming from their eyes. After a while, that became more than annoying. It was unbearable. I found myself shouting at the screen for the detective to do some detective work. Nope. After he was done crying, he cried some more. Even his daughter, at one point, mocked the series by noting her father had turned it into a soap opera. Sigh. At least the writers knew.