Hawaii Five-O - The Complete Sixth Season
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Actor: Harry Endo, Herman Wedemeyer, Jack Lord, James MacArthur, Kam FongDirector: Beau Vanden Ecker, Bradford May
Brand: HAWAII FIVE-O
Writer: Leonard Freeman
Writer: Paul Williams
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Color, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1200 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-04-21
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Paramount
Product features:
- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- Color; Dubbed; DVD; Full Screen; Subtitled; NTSC
Movie Reviews of Hawaii Five-O - The Complete Sixth Season
Movie Review: Tis The Season To Be Psychotic
Summary: 5 Stars
Season six has lots of stories involving serial killers, psychopaths and villains who work alone rather than the previous season's array of organized crime figures. Organized crime figures rely on bribery, intimidation, blackmail and murder to avoid the authorities. The loners are more concerned with leaving a personal trademark which is usually what gives them away. Many of the villains simply repeat the same crime until caught as rather than covering their tracks. The problem with this is that the viewers already know the specifics of the crime and are forced to wait for the police to gather evidence. In some cases the crime is pointless to such an extent that looking for logic is almost impossible.
Hookman
This episode is a personal favorite and according to the web also a favorite of many fans. The story is of a cop killer with artificial hands out for revenge against those whom he blames for his handicap. His "handicap" works to his advantage at first as he leaves no finger prints, but instead leaves his own personal trademark which in the end is what gives him away. This episode features some above average car chases and shootouts.
Draw Me A Killer
In keeping with the tradition of serial killers, this one seems to be unaware or indifferent that anything outside of his own little world exists as he stalks victims in public places like the courthouse. The profile reads: loner, uneducated, works in menial labor jobs, lacks a father figure, rebels against authority figures (such as cops and parents) lacks self-confidence especially around women so naturally he kills people to build self-esteem.
The killer sees himself as the guardian of comic strip character Judy Moon and when he`s not killing for her, spends his spare time talking to her. (No social life?) The victims resemble those in the comic which are out to get Judy. The clues put together by the H50 seem almost as weird as the crimes themselves. This just seemed kind of slow and nonsensical. At one point even Chin Ho seems to smirk at the clues they placed before them. You know something is wrong when the cops are laughing at you.
Charter For Death
A gangster, his daughter and son in law arrive in Hawaii infected by the plague and the island is sealed off to prevent an outbreak. The son in law apparently sees this as his chance to disappear with the loot but is chased down by H50, while McGarrett, fearing he may have been infected, quarantines himself and monitors the case from behind closed doors. A long drawn-out, boring episode if you ask me. No comment.
One Big Happy Family
Bo Hopkins and Slim Pickens guest star in a bizarre story about a family of serial killers. The episodic promo has Jack Lord introducing the episode as an "extraordinary fact - fiction story that will strike terror". There was speculation that this story was based loosely on the real-life "McCrarey" family who indulged in a similar bizarre crime spree. One of the "Ferguson" family begins a menial job and within a week the management is brutally slaughtered for relatively small amounts of cash on hand. The killers clean out the register and make no attempt to hide their weapons or wipe the prints. The prints left on the weapons come back as non extent. This is never explained.
After reading the report on the Fergusons from the mainland detailing over a hundred other similar cases, McGarrett tells Danny, "If I saw that in a movie I'd walk out in the middle."
Danny ("Danno") replies, "I wouldn't go in."
The Sunday Torch
A young man with a history of pyromania is the prime suspect in a case or serial arson. Since this episode is rather predictable I won't give away the ending.
Murder is A Taxing Affair
Internal Revenue Service investigator Jonathan Cavel (Don Porter), traveling under the alias of Henry Marsh, wants to grab $600,000 from a guy he is following to Hawaii, but the money goes astray, picked off the airport baggage carousel by two tourists, and the guy ends up dead in the airplane washroom. Not one of my favorites but ok.
Tricks Are Not Treats
Gregory Sierra (Sanford and Son, Barney Miller) stars as a pimp charging higher commissions and McGarrett is trying to avoid a war between pimps. Ron Glass (Barney Miller) also appears as a pimp caught in the crossfire. All of the pimps dress in Jimi Hendrix outfits(or the other way around). The show has an interesting twist near the end.
Why Wait Until Uncle Kevin Dies?
In this episode, Five-O has to deal with yet another high-tech outfit, Reversions, Inc. This inheritance discount firm's racket is to provide money to heirs before their (very rich) benefactors die. The heirs sign over the inheritance to the company and the company collects on the benefactor's death, taking a few bucks for their services. When several rich people (all of whose heirs signed deals with Reversions) suddenly die within a short time frame, Five-O is suspicious, especially considering the company is planning to leave town shortly. Interesting story but seems a bit unrealistic.
Flash of Color, Flash of Death
Don Knight (Dylan Heywood in part 2 of the Vashon Trilogy in season 5) stars as the Australian opal courier Hobbs, who winds up in a mess of trouble when the highly-regulated shipment of stones he is bringing to Hawaii (along with some unauthorized ones) gets stolen almost as soon as he steps off the plane.
A Bullet For El Diablo
The daughter of dictator is kidnapped and then released. After a private reunion with her father, she kills him and then disappears making her the prime suspect. This is kind of a weak episode in my book. Enjoyable to some degree but the resolution seems a little contrived.
The Finishing Touch
This is a story about counterfeit bonds that has sort of a twist to it. Not one of my favorites but still worth checking out. If I tell you anymore I would be giving it away.
Anybody Can Build A Bomb
This is one of my least favorites from this season as the whole storyline about building an atom bomb. Interesting in a comic book sort of way but not very realistic.
Try To Die On Time
I copied and pasted this from a H50 site because it sort of coincided with my own conclusions about this episode. This show has a plot which is so complicated, it almost gave me an aneurysm -- I had to watch it three times!
This is from IMDB and explains this mess of an episode better than I:
A chronic gambler, pretending he has cancer, sells chances on the hour of the day he will die at $10,000 apiece. The winner gets all 24 tickets. The gambler actually doesn't have cancer (he has Lou Gehrig's disease, ALS, instead), and plans to commit suicide at an appointed time so that a specific person will get the money. But as the gambler talks to his doctor outside a party, the doctor is gunned down and the gambler is forced to take his fatal drug. The gambler's corpse is then placed in a car and driven to a remote location, where the hot sun makes it impossible to tell the exact time of his death. The killer then works on eliminating the others who bought a chance, and figuring out to whom the gambler planned to leave the money.
I actually keep this site open for just those episodes which don't' seem to make sense.
The $100,000 Nickel
This episode combines the "item passes from one person to another" plot device. The nickel gets misplaced enroute to some collector or something but you get the idea.
The Flip Side of Death
Four men, posing as Army specialists whose Jeep overturned and blew out canisters of deadly poison gas, evacuate a small town on Oahu's remote north coast. That evacuation includes the bank, which the criminals knock over. McGarrett immediately orders a roadblock on the only highway up that side of the island, stranding the bank robbers far from any point of escape. The two mainland "haoles," a music-company owner and his buddy, have prepared for this by breaking down hundreds of old 8-track cassettes, stuffing the money inside them and giving them, a few at a time, to one of the locals, a driver for the resort hotel where they are staying, who can take them out in his van on supply runs and stash them elsewhere. A good shootout at the end.
The Banzai Pipeline
Rick McDivitt, an aspiring filmmaker, and his buddy Roger, a champion surfer, hope to make a killing by showing Roger ride breathtaking waves on Oahu's North Beach and the Banzai Pipeline. When Rick runs out of film for the day, he goes back toward his car, and finds another unlocked car nearby with a businessman's jacket draped over the front seat. Rick reaches inside and lifts the wallet from the jacket, then drives to pick up Roger, evading a runaway car driven by a thug named Koa on the way. What Rick and Roger don't know is that Koa has just killed a businessman, who was involved with a crooked real-estate deal. Rick and Roger plan to use the businessman's credit cards to finance the rest of the movie, unaware that he's dead and that Koa has seen Rick. When Rick starts purchasing camera equipment with the credit cards, Five-O realizes he may be a murder witness without even knowing it. So do the real-estate developer and his henchman, who go after Rick and Roger themselves.
One Born Every Minute
Con-artists arrive in Hawaii and meet up with local thieves to plan a phony diamond con. When a wealthy tourist devastated by the con leaps to his death, McGarrett discovers he (the tourist) is one of many victims.
Secret Witness
Five-O races to find the witness to a hit on a bagman of a local mob. The witness, who narrowly escaped being killed himself, had dropped a library book with his library card inside, providing the hit man with his name. The witness's wife doesn't want him to go to the police. Five-O's main clue is a letter the witness wrote to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin's "Secret Witness" feature that seeks tips for unsolved crimes.
Death With Father
McGarrett joins a group of operatives trying to take down a major drug lab in the hills. The raid succeeds, but a young man escapes. Word of the raid soon reaches a retired HPD cop, who realizes the escapee is his own son. The cop starts sneaking into evidence rooms and destroying or stealing anything which can implicate the son. Meanwhile, the son is still working as a drug dealer and holes up in another lab used to make methamphetamine. The title of this show is to be taken literally.
Murder With A Golden Touch
A private detective, and former HPD officer, turns up dead. Following his trail, Five-O discovers the private detective was investigating whether a businessman's son-in-law was being faithful in his marriage. It turns out the son-in-law is up to his neck in a scheme to steal gold from the businessman, melt it and recast it and make it appear to be a treasure find. Things will turn more deadly before Five-O can crack the case.
Nightmare in Blue
One of the best "contemporary issue" shows. Walter Stark (John Beck), a cop who didn't make the grade at the academy, cruises in a cop's uniform and car, finds his victims in women alone at home or stranded, then brutally rapes and murders them. The survivor of an attack and her husband are at odds with McGarrett over the difficulty in proving that the encounter was forced rather than consensual. This is complicated by the victim's assumption that her attacker was a uniformed officer. It is apparent that McGarrett and company side with the victims. John Beck played the role of "Mark Graison", a much nicer guy and sometimes companion of Pam Ewing on "Dallas".
Mother's Deadly Helper
A vigilante lunatic becomes inflamed by various thugs getting off the hook in court on technicalities. Using an alias, the man sends a letter to McGarrett promising to blow away the next criminal who takes a walk. The criminal walks and is killed right in front of the courthouse. As a public debate rages on vigilante "justice," the killer sends McGarrett another note, expanding his hate list to the judges who order charges quashed on technicalities. A judge (Frank Cady of Hooterville fame in a very rare serious role) does just that and is promptly kidnapped from the courthouse by the vigilante. The ending is a bit far fetched as we have another case solved by this machine that isolates background sounds on a ransom tape but all in all still a good episode. As for this machine seen in several episodes, I question its very existence.
Killer At Sea
A business manager is forced to withdraw money from his clients' accounts, which causes one of the banks in Honolulu to get suspicious. When shots are fired as he escapes from the bank, a congressman gets killed. He then escapes from his kidnappers' clutches and the driver of the car escapes onto an ocean liner which is sailing for San Francisco. McGarrett and Danno join the businessman on the ship as they attempt to track down the driver of the car and the loot.
30,000 Rooms and I Have The Key
David Wayne ("Digger" Barnes on "Dallas") plays an elderly crook who is a master of disguise. The thief has information on guests with valuables and how they try to hide them in their rooms. The thief signs into the same hotel in several different disguises and aliases and even sends invitations to the police. A little contrived but all in all still a good episode. Semi-humorous
Summary of Hawaii Five-O - The Complete Sixth Season
Genre: Television: Series
Rating: NR
Release Date: 21-APR-2009
Media Type: DVD
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