Heroes - Season One
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Movie Reviews of Heroes - Season One
Movie Review: Loved Heors
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought the video for me but my husband couldn't stop watching it. He's hooked on it.Movie Review: X-Men for TV has enough advantages to keep us following
Summary: 4 Stars
There has been a fair bit of hype surrounding this series, and most of it is deserved, so if you have checked out some of the best television has to offer (and the 21st century has some of the finest ever) then you may like to give Heroes a flight on your screen. I am in for season 2 and maybe you will be also.
The show deals with about a dozen characters, each who discovers they have a special ability, their lives cross each other's and in the backdrop a looming crisis threatens each of them, New York and maybe the entire world. They must learn to come to terms with their abilities before it is too late.
The season starts by explaining the characters and further episodes gradually bring the characters together. This is a bit of a slow burner but stick with it because the second half of this season is a way better than the first which does have some shaky moments and a few off episodes that can make you doubt it. For every low point there genuinely are some very interesting and surprising ones. However one of its major weaknesses is that it cannot escape being labelled an X-Men clone and for all intents and purposes that is exactly what it is. It's the exact same premise dilemma of humans possibly turning against the new mutant emergences, however instead of focusing on this the series is mainly about Sylar, a mutant who becomes an increasingly dangerous force and tries to kill the other mutants. In this respect it hasn't fallen victim to being a complete X-Men rip-off but it does come too close for comfort sometimes.
The other problem is that for every interesting character (with the emergence of a new actor in the making) there is one that is boring or whose potential is kept to such a minimal as to barely make them appealing enough to watch when they show up. While this could just be the producers playing some things out for future seasons it is still more than a little tedious and in particular doesn't suit its style like it would in Lost. This is Heroes. We want heroes. If we want Lost we will watch Lost. One other negative is that the story often doesn't make sense and some characters do some very silly things but this is all about the suspension of disbelief, they just ask us to buy into some things that make everyone concerned look very dim. There is a bit of an anti-climax too given such a build up.
So apart from its failing why recommend it? Well it should be highly suggested for your TV series collection because its production values are consistent with the best of TV along with some nifty plots and some truly exciting story arcs. For example Hero's very tough version of himself, Sylar's method of killing people, Claire taking her date for a drive, Peter discovering how his powers actually work or Matt's family dilemmas. Some heroes live and some die so that keeps you on your toes.
It seems that its plus points are more than enough to not only save it from gathering dust but propel it into competing for the best TV series hot spot. When its goods it's great and when it tries to touch its audience it really succeeds.
Pros:
-High production values
-Cool characters
-Good action sequences
-When the story works its very cool
Cons:
-X-Men does it better
-Some characters are boring or stay small
-Anti-climax
-Plot holes galore
Movie Review: Highly evolved?
Summary: 3 Stars
With the success of superhero movies in recent years it's amazing no one tried a series like HEROES before, and there's much you can credit its creator, Tim Kring, with bringing to the table. Although others have complained that the basic premise steals the whole idea of randomly superpowered people mixed among everyone else in large part from the X-MEN comics, you do have to give credit for stealing in that regard from the best, and the whole idea of ordinary people finding their extraordinary abilities and getting together slowly really makes the early episodes of the show's first season the most exciting.
Kring also dispenses with costumes and superhero names, which might here seem otherwise quite silly; unfortunately, there are several other things he still keeps from superhero comics that don't work so well, such as the retrograde attitude towards women (the two major heroines are, inevitably, beautiful blondes, and one is a chaste cheerleader while the other is an Internet stripper). It is also to be wished that the dialogue were better, particularly in the dull expository framing monologues for each episode where most usually the Mohinder character blathers on in maddeningly vague generalities about the nature of heroism, destiny, etc.
But the show's best assets are in its casting. Hayden Pannetiere and Ali Parter make much more out of the cheerleader and the stripper, respectively, than you'd expect; similarly, Masi Oka brings a unexpectedly genius sense of comic timing to the otherwise predictable character of the Japanese fanboi with superpowers (whose enthusiastic exclamations in fractured English seem like an infelicitous comic throwback to characters like Connie from "Terry and the Pirates"). And there's a great villain in Zachary Quinto's insecure Sylar, who hunts the heroes to kill them and gain their superpowers. The overarching plot propels things along quite nicely, although unfortunately Kring also brought to the series a fascination with alternate timelines and time-travel paradoxes, which have so often proven to be the downfall of so many comic-book and sci-fi series. (They always seem more annoying than fascinating, and they always tie the plotting up in knots.) The best parts of the series are set in the cheerleader's home city of Odessa, TX. Its more conventional settings are, more often than not, in those three cities Hollywood still assumes to be the only cities in America where anything happens: New York, Los Angeles (of course), and Las Vegas.
Movie Review: Mildewed!
Summary: 1 Stars
The boxed set of Heroes arrived covered in mold and mildew! The box is open and is still out in the garage airing out....I just hope the dvds play! AWFUL!Movie Review: Really Good Sci-Fi Entertainment!
Summary: 5 Stars
The "Heroes Season 1" DVD set was a huge pleasant surprise for me and my wife. We enjoy good series Sci-Fi, but seldom get a chance to watch network TV due to our schedules. The shear volume of hype around Heroes convinced us to give this try without ever seeing a single episode of the show.
Like all Sci-Fi, Heroes requires some suspension of disbelief to get full enjoyment, but this series hits on so many levels (action, humor, special effects, and solid plot). This first season episodes were so compelling that we seldom watched just one episode per sitting (sometimes four of them back to back, keeping us up into the wee hours of the morning :-)
Highly Recommended!