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List Price: $34.98 | | Label: BBC Warner
Salesrank: 42153
Released: January 22, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
In Season Four, the team loses Mickey Bricks to an overseas sabbatical, so it’s time for someone else to lead the gang. Danny steps up to the plate, but can the others convince him that the team needs another member – especially when it comes in the form of street kid Billy Bond? There are, as always, plenty of marks who are greedy, rude or simply nasty enough to be parted from their cash. Targets include a porn baron, a ruthless nursing home owner, and a charity crook – and that’s just for starters. The crew also hit LA and Las Vegas, but when they’re not on their home turf, will their audacious attempts catch up with them in the end?
DVD Features:
Biographies
Featurette
Hustle - Complete Season Four Reviews:
Series 4 Big Let Down 
2009-02-01 - Unfortunately, it only took two episodes of Danny Blue in charge for me to stop watching the entire 4th season. Every show needs a baffoon, but you don't put the baffoon in charge, it's not even logical to think they would do that, and it's very hard to watch.
I hear Adrian Lester will be back for season 5. I may pick the series up again then. Excellent Series until this point, though. 1, 2 and 3 are well worth it.
Entertaining, but not up to its usual standard 
2008-10-11 - This show definitely took a hit when Mickey Bricks, the leader of this gang of long-con hustlers for three seasons, disappeared from the stage, but the cast and creators did their best to stay on top of the game. Danny Blue (Marc Warren) must prove himself capable of leadership to the rest of the gang, and they take in a new grifter (Ashley Walters) who has a checkered past and plenty of rough edges, but also lots of natural talent. This season is entertaining, but there are no really great episodes as there were in earlier seasons. It also features one of the worst episodes of the entire series, in which a young Japanese man arrives at Eddie's Bar, apparently to revenge himself on the criminals who cheated his father. It saves itself to some extent with a good twist at the end, but there is not enough movement and the depiction of Japanese culture is too cartoonish.
Wikipedia claims that a fifth series is on the way, but that Marc Warren and Jaime Murray will not be among the cast. That's a shame. It would have been nice to see Adrian Lester return so that Mickey and Danny could contend for leadership.
Re-heating the old pie...
2008-09-21 - In my humble opinion the whole series should have been over after 2 seasons. The third one is just nice try of the script writer to extend the life of characters by putting some new make-up. Yet, you can feel there the spirit of a true hustle genius in some episodes. However, the season four is something unbearably boring and, how to say, expectable. First of all, the failure of season four is not the foult of key character being changed - oh no! It's the authors, the writers, who should be blamed exclusively. Watching the episodess, one by one, you can see, almost feel like the actors are really trying to boast their characters above the plastic frames they've been put in. It's like undusting the old briliant schemes, the flame that's been put out and never to be set again.
Dear writers - if it ever crosses your mind (you say it did actually) to write 5th season, please bring on board someone fresh or just go for a long holidays and re-think. Do not make the same mistake twice. Please !!
My recommendation: if you are a true fan of the series - buy it and watch it to see for yourself, but surely it's not worth the price it is actually sold for.
Great Production Values 
2008-09-16 - Each year of this series is quite entertaining. The characters are interesting and the casting is remarkable. Tension, drama, and conflict between characters is thought-provoking and great fun. Many quietly humorous moments add depth and variety. Nice theme and incidental music. The writers, directors, and producers truly know how to tell a story and command your attention. This entire DVD set of all episodes has a well-deserved and cherished place in my DVD collection.
Great BBC Show
2008-05-20 - Sad to see Mickey Bricks leave, but the other characters make me watch the whole thing.
