24: Season Five
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Movie Reviews of 24: Season Five
Movie Review: 24 Regains its former glory!!(spolier free review)
Summary: 5 Stars
After a disappointing 4th season, i wanted to continue watching because i owed it to the series some of the best seasons on tv ever, so i didn't get my hopes up much, i didn't even think there would be a creative attack, plot or anything...
I was dead wrong.
This season opened with an unbelievable first episode that blew me away, and the suspense stayed all way. Now, i have watched every season, i have watched alias, i have watched lost,blablabla..i have come to learn to predict and expect most of the twist and turns here and there along the plot. This time, they caught be my surprise every time. It is simply incredible! This season presents a complete new chapter for jack bauer. It regained all its glory from season 2 a few blocks back, and it kept going. Since the story is one of the main elements of the series, i will do my best not to reveal any of it
Here are just a few of the pros of this season:
A complicated plan and intentions from the bad guys pulling all the strings, totally passing the mediocre plot of "Kill americans and that's it" from season 4
A terrefic episode featuring a brief but great apperance by jack's daughter
Old and new characters mixing well together
Mind blowing plot twists that made my jaw drop to the floor.It is simply great, as you watch, the show totally transmits every feeling necessary to make these episodes keep you glued to your seat every week.
A clif hanger that leaves you wanting for the begginning of the 6th season.
Great acting from the cast, martha, jack, karen, secretary heller, everyone...
Overall, they totally deserved this emmy. The show had a message in other seasons: If things are bad, don't worry, they can always get worse (well, in the 4th season it was the opposite, but no matter).
This season is ground breaking, 5 Stars, 2 thumbs way up, outstanding. Watch it or buy it, you won't regret it
Movie Review: Best show still in production on Broadcast TV?
Summary: 5 Stars
Love the show. Period. Have just finished watching the first 5 seasons (something of a marathon over the last month).
Season 5 is probably my favorite season to date. It starts strong and doesn't let up until it's over.
As to packaging and the discs themselves: the first 4 seasons come in fold-out packaging + outer sleeve, much like the Highlander series and a few others. The first discs contain the episodes themselves, and the last disc contains some bonus materials. Season 5, however, breaks from this tradition and instead packages the discs in 4 slim cases (the 4th holds the bonus features disc). A change of page in packaging, but still quite attractive, with approximately the same shelf footprint (if not slightly smaller).
Season 5 continues to do a good job with chapter breaks, scene selection menus, and bonus features. I might note however, they've added a slightly longer intro before getting to the main menu (looks like booting up and logging into a CTU computer system). However, on my DVD player I could skip ahead without having to play the whole sequence. So, it wasn't completely ungainly.
The video and audio were up to par. Of course I don't have a large-screen/wide-screen TV nor surround sound, so I can't test under all conditions. But if there were any video or audio issues I didn't notice them. Perhaps some moire/color issues in scenes with close parallel-line patterns. But I've noticed that on any number of DVD releases of other series from other studios, so I wouldn't say there was any more in 24 than other series.
Overall, I highly recommend this for anyone who hasn't seen 24, and who likes the spy/thriller type show. If you liked Alias and/or La Femme Nikita, you'll probably like 24 as well. There are some "intense" scenes and probably some harsh language, so preview episodes before showing it to any youngsters, if at all.
Movie Review: A Little Wear but Still Strong Fifth Season
Summary: 5 Stars
In the aftermath of season 4, Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) had to fake his own death and go into hiding. But he can't seem to stay in retirement for long. Someone knows Jack is alive and targets his friends, forcing Jack to come out of hiding to face down terrorists yet again.
Meanwhile, it is an important day for the United States and President Logan (Gregory Itzin). He has been working hard to iron out an anti-terrorism treaty with Russia, and that treaty will be signed that day. But the treat of terrorists in Los Angeles with stolen nerve gas just might be enough to derail the treaty.
Season 5 won an Emmy for best drama, and it was well deserved. Even after five years, this show is gripping drama with excellent writing and acting. I am glued to my seat every week, breathing only during commercial breaks. This season the threat and storytelling seemed more focused then previous years, adding to the drama.
There were a couple flaws this season. I sure don't remember the explanation of who knew Jack was alive at the beginning of the season. Maybe it was mentioned and I missed it. Furthermore, we have yet more examples of lack of security at CTU. While it does make for gripping drama, it does seem like they could come up with a new plot trick every so often.
My biggest complaint this season was the body count. We lost several key characters from previous years. While I understand the producer's desire to keep us on the edge of our seats, can't anyone from the show live happily ever after? It honestly got to the point I dreaded seeing anyone who had been on the show before for fear they would be killed off.
Still, these are minor issues with a truly wonderful show. I'm counting down the hours until the next season premiers and we can start the rush all over again.
Movie Review: 24 - Season Five
Summary: 5 Stars
As usual Kiefer Sutherland is at the top of his game in this series. Few actors have garnered such rave reviews as he with his performances in the first five seasons of this series.
Season Five is easily the best season thus far, although I have to admit I was disappointed to see Tony Almeida and Michelle Dessler killed off in this season since they formed a major part of the wonderful chemistry between the actors and the plots from the very beginning in Season One. I was also disappointed to see Dennis Haysbert (as David Palmer) killed off despite the fact that he was no longer President. They should have kept him alive.
Nevertheless, the suspense in this fifth season of 24 was nothing less than nail-biting, edge-of-the-chair, run-your-fingers-through-your-hair from the moment Hour 5 begins. The cliff-hanger that ends the season, setting up the viewers for Season Six, was completely unexpected. My mother-in-law, who had never watched 24 before Season Five, was totally hooked.
As a lifetime engineer in both electronics and broadcasting, I've been personally fascinated with the technology used throughout the series. A friend who works for the Federal Government in one of their technology divisions tells me that they are just beginning to implement some of the phenomenal intelligence-gathering and space-photography capabilities we've been seeing in this series. That adds all the more spice to the program for me.
Can't wait for Season Six. It has all the makings of a real winner, too!
If you haven't seen Season Five yet, make sure you watch Season Four first so that you have all of the connectors that make this one fantastic ongoing story. Use your TIVO to record Season Six, but don't watch it before you've at least seen Season Five. You won't regret it!
Movie Review: Best Season of the Best Show on Television
Summary: 5 Stars
"24" is quite simply the greatest show to appear on television in a good long while and season five is its finest hour. Five seasons in, series creators Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran continue to spring one unpredictable surprise after another, sending super agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland, by equal turns lethally charismatic and emotionally bruised) against his most formidable foes yet that include everyone and anyone from Russian Separatists, authoritarian double agents to high ranking members of the government. Fans of the season will know exactly who these baddies are, but for those unitiated, the head-spinning surprises are best left unsaid. What can be said, is that for this fifth season the crack writing staff took a good hard look at the state of geopolitics and the authoritarian neo-conservatism championed by the Bush administration and worked in a cautionary tale about oil-lust and hubris taken to extremes. Besides Sutherland, special recognition has to go to Gregory Itzin as the weak-kneed President Logan, Jean Smart as the harried first lady and Mary Lynn Rajskub as the nerdy Chole O'Brien. For the show, this season presented a tricky balancing act between the shows' signature slam-bang action scenes (there are still spectacular) and the sobering political commentary, but Surnow and Cochran nail it, making "24" a thinking man's thriller that is far smarter and far more relevant than anything else on television.