Director Tom Clegg
Starring Sean Bean, Daragh O’Malley, Abigail Cruttenden
Rated M
Score 4/6

Sharpe is framed as the thief who stole Napoleon’s gold, and he must clear his name to avoid execution. Meanwhile, Jane – urged on by a friend – makes some questionable choices.
Despite the troubles of Sharpe in this movie, there is a notable shift in the tone of this movie in the direction of what could be labelled as Mills and Boon. Even with the romantic troubles of Sharpe as subplot we are not denied a thrill or two with the reappearance of the weasel Major Ducos who has hopes of getting rid of Sharpe once and for all. Fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer might be interested to know that Alexis Denisof as Lord John Rossendale (Alexander Armstrong was cast in the same role in Sharpe’s Regiment) two years before being cast as Wesley Wyndam-Pryce. Even though Rossendale is not the most manly or threating villains of the series he certainly is one an audience can find it easy to hate.

Director Tom Clegg
Starring Sean Bean, Daragh O’Malley, Abigail Cruttenden
Rated M
Score 5/6
Returning to Yorkshire, Sharpe finds himself on the wrong side between corrupt employers and exploited workers.
Those of you following the Literary Military Movie Marathon this episode was not based on a novel by Bernard Cornwell. Also, a key scene in the story is based on the Peterloo Massacre of 1819, reset here to Keighley in Yorkshire, in 1814.

Unlike the other movies in the series the events of Revenge and Justice have the feel of occurring within a shorter period of time of each other. Politics seem to play a bigger part in Sharpe’s Justice then the rest of the series. Sure, there has been the class related jokes aimed at the gentry’s distaste of Sharpe being risen from the ranks, but this is political in the since of the Industrial revolution, with Sharpe stuck in the middle of a dispute between the workers of textile mill and its owner as Sharpe is set back to the town where he grew up. In Justice we get a glimpse into Sharpe’s family life, something that is only hinted at in the rest of the series.
Abigail Cruttenden gave a brilliant fire and brimstone speech that would stereotypically associate with a slighted woman at the end of the movie showing that her character had seriously changed since her first appearance