Terrible! No where near as good as Alan Bleasdale's version!
This was AWFUL! The acting was horrible, the story didn't really stand right to me and Fagin was just...not convincing. Nancy was worse, her acting was the worst of the lot. It truely was an awful adaption. And Fagin shows real concern for Oliver - Hello?!

If you want true class acting then i suggest you buy Alan Bleasdale's version of Oliver Twist. It has a better story, and better actors/actresess. It's the one with Robert Lindsay, who plays Fagin AMAZINGLY!.

All in all, this is a shocking adaption and mocks the BBC and Dickens.

Oh dear!
A version of Oliver Twist made by people who either don't know or don't like the original book. Good production values are negated by poor scripting and bad acting. The writer wrote for Eastenders and it shows as some scenes resemble the worst of that soap. If the BBC are going to keep producing adaptations like this then they should just give up.

Enjoyable enough, but it's far from Dickens
It always makes my heart sink when I watch the "behind the scenes" documentaries of TV adaptations of books, and the focus is on how they've changed things, tried to make it "relevant to the modern age" and, by implication, improved upon the original. This is an enjoyable story, but it isn't "Oliver Twist." Now, I'm not a purist. I've just finished acting in a local version of the musical, Oliver! which also strays far from Dickens' original. But this one just isn't quite right. The characters keep the same names, but are not the same people. My particular gripe is with the way the Artful Dodger is portrayed. Dodger is a boy who thinks he's a man, cynical, arrogant and a joy to read about or watch. Yet here, he is yet another sulky, stroppy teenager. Oliver, on the other hand, the writers have decided to make less wimpy than he usually comes across. No harm in that - yet is there no other way than to have him answering back the whole time? The story itself is fine, for there at least the writers have kept close to the original. But at times the characters are barely recognisable.

Well I enjoyed it..
When I saw this advertised I was wondering whether to watch this but I'm glad that I did.
I thought 'Monks' was a nasty piece of work.
Timothy Spall wasn't exactly my idea of fagin.
But overall well played by everyone.

DON'T LISTEN TO ALL THE POOR REVIEWS
This BBC adaption of Oliver Twist is absolutely brilliant, if there was 6 stars I would go for that! The change of the story just makes it even better, in my opinion it is much better than any of the films and also the book! I absolutely loved it, and as for those people who rated it 1 star, don't listen to them, because most of what they have said is absolute nonscence, 5 star all the way!

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