Millennium - The Complete First Season
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Actor: MillenniumDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 946 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-07-20
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Millennium - The Complete First Season
Movie Review: A Truly Bold and Intense drama series. Even better than the X-files.
Summary: 5 Stars
Frank Black is my hero. As played by Lance Henriksen he posesses an insight into the minds of the most demented killers. He knows the evil that resides in the human heart and his time worn face shows it. Yet he still holds on to the hope that he can make a difference for his wife and little daughter, protecting them from the all too real human monsters that seem to be appearing more often in the modern world.
Where do serial killers come from? Is there some real evil entity, a "devil" if you will, that helps create these people without concience who can kill without remorse? Could the serial killer phenomena be part of something bigger at work? Frank Black begins to wonder.
And as this series unfolds, (especially in season 2) it is apparent that the Millennium Group has some ideas on the topic as well. Frank Black works for them as a consultant in Seattle, Washington. In fact, Frank and the group find a great number of killers who believe they are playing some part in the apocalypse as described in the book of Revelation or the writings of Nostrodamas. Not all of them, but these people obviously see things "differently," and it's Franks job to see what they see so he can catch them before they kill again.
That is the intriguing premise, and maybe it wasn't as accessible to some as the UFO mythology of the X-files, but they missed out.
Was the show dark? Certainly. But it was brilliantly acted and directed too. Each episode is better than most movie thrillers about cops vs. killers I've seen. I'm not dumping on The X-files. I was a fan of that show too, but really the first season of X-files was sort of uneven (see my review of that boxed set). Millennium was top notch from season one. And season two was even better. I think Chris Carter must really be proud of this show. He and everyone involved, Lance Henriksen, ALL of the actors, the producers, the music of Mark Snow...it all adds up to a landmark show that deserves it's due.
And now it gets it on DVD.
Summary of Millennium - The Complete First Season
Millennium marked the second major television series created by Chris Carter, who'd already made his name as the brains behind The X-Files. And, like its predecessor, it shares a lot of the same themes--it's a crime thriller that gradually unfolds into a grand conspiracy involving the government and the fate of the entire world.
Agent Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) is a former FBI agent who has transplanted his family from Washington, D.C. to Seattle, after suffering something of a breakdown. He's an expert criminal profiler--arguably the best, thanks to his ability to "see" into the minds of killers--and he fears for the safety of his wife and young daughter. In Seattle, he joins the mysterious Millennium Group, an agency of freelance crime-busters who investigate particularly brutal crimes. As a result, Millennium is downright bleak viewing, as Black jumps from horrific slaying to horrific slaying. Moreover, there's a growing sense of unease about the workings of the Millennium Group, so that in typical Chris Carter fashion, you don't know who to trust. With its pre-Y2K angst and overwhelming darkness, as well as its general humorlessness, Millennium hasn't dated as well as The X-Files. Still, thanks to Carter's vision and Henriksen's compelling take on the tortured Black, it's difficult not to get hooked. --Ted Kord
Retired serial-profiler Frank Black has moved his family to Seattle to escape the violence and horror he dealt with while working for the FBI in Washington, D.C. Although his uncanny and often unsettling ability to see into the twisted minds of serial killers has caused him much inner torment, Black knows his "gift" can still be used to help protect and save others. For that reason he has joined the mysterious Millennium Group, a team of underground ex-law enforcement experts dedicated to fighting against the ever-growing forces of evil and darkness in the world.
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