Aside from the character butchery and the severe lack of Torchwood-ness, CoE also annoyed me with a stupid plot that had big enough holes to drive a track through it. So no, I don't think I'd have liked it, even if I hadn't expected it to be, you know, Torchwood - which it decidedly wasn't.

But again, evil government conspiracies bore me to death. It was an interesting idea in the first two hundred or so films and shows I saw it, but by now it lets me fall asleep.