The Invisible Man: Season One
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Movie Reviews of The Invisible Man: Season One
Movie Review: "A Nobel Prize winning smart-a** named George Bernard Shaw once said..."
Summary: 4 Stars
No, that isn't a quote to start off an episode of Criminal Minds - The First Season: It's from The Invisible Man. I can hardly believe it's been 6 years since I've watched this show on the Sci-Fi Channel. I'm so glad there's no more waiting!
Oh, you haven't been introduced? Well, let me take you into a world where nothing is as it seems, and you'll meet a man so transparent, you can see right through him.
Darien Fawkes, a two-bit hood who tries to do good on his latest job, gets thrown into jail for the longest stretch possible: life imprisonment.
Darien's brother Kevin decides to help out, and gets Darien paroled into his own little science project. It's quite simple, really...Kevin operates on Darien and implants a gland into his brain that delivers a substance called Quicksilver. This substance has a unique benefit - it turns its host completely invisible.
But this kind of power can't come without a catch, right?
Well, it turns out that Kevin's little gift has an unforeseen side effect on Darien. After prolonged use of the gland, it causes him to become a murderous psychopath, a condition called 'Quicksilver Madness', which can only be suppressed with a counteragent injection.
Over the course of this first season boxed set, we get to watch the adventures of an unlikely cop-buddy comedy/sci-fi team up between Darien Fawkes, the man with the Gland, and his partner Bobby Hobbes, who can't even get a prepaid calling card from their boss, a man only known as "The Official". You'll watch their adventures of taking out spy networks, disabling assassins, uncovering Agency experiments that went horribly awry, and much more.
It's all in a day's work for - The Department of Fish & Game?!?!?
Okay, so that's the recap of the first season...now let's tackle the DVD treatment itself.
I had to give this one 4 stars because the special features fell short of my expectations. The sit-down with series creator Matt Greenberg provides some insight into how he conceived the show, but at only 10 minutes long, this left me with more questions than answers. The bonus episode of "Legends" from season two was a nice touch - it's like our own little shot of counteragent to offset the Madness of waiting until season two becomes available. I also expected commentaries on more than just the pilot episode. Why doesn't the commentary track have input from Paul Ben-Victor? That's like having a Dukes of Hazzard commentary without Tom Wopat.
I'm hoping that when the next season comes out it'll have features like how the Quicksilver special effects were done, or the TV ads that aired for the show, bloopers, anything to make up for the lack of features here.
You'd better order this, before all the available copies Quicksilver away before your very eyes!
Movie Review: Best Sci-Fi Original Tv Series
Summary: 5 Stars
This series deserves the long over due dvd release. It has a perfect blend of action and humor, which makes it possible to watch it again and again. This was along with farscape was the best sci-fi orginal series.Movie Review: Hardly Invisible
Summary: 4 Stars
An invisible Man? H G Wells must have been mad, or a genius? History shows that he was the latter, so the concept of being 'invisible' being rooted in science and psychology can create an amazing series. Just think of Sue Storm (Invisible Woman). Other than the sexist moments that could be envisioned, it opens so many doors to incredible fiction.
This Universal release is excellent. The First Season is so far superior to most of the series out there that the MSRP is justified. Special effects are expensive, and unfortunately, like so many series before SFX make and break them.
Darien Fawkes is a lifetime thief. Caught once too often, he is jailed for the long haul until his brother, Kevin has a conditional release dependant on his co-operation in a scientific experiment. Implanting technology into Dariens' brain, Kevin creates an 'invisible' man whom is dependant on Quicksilver. Unfortunately Quicksilver madness overtakes him when the dosage is waning with terrible side effects. His brother is killed by outside forces, and leaves Darien to deal with his power on his own.
That's where the fun begins. The 23 episodes on this set include some spectacular scenarios. Darien is assigned to protect a witness in "Raplph", a phony spiritualist is uncovered with great danger (Tiresias), another invisible man comes to visit in "It Hurts When You Do This", and the Chinese government is thwarted in "Cat and Mouse".
The 'Fly on the wall' scenario can be very powerful indeed.
Vincent Ventresca plays Darien, the con man/invisible man and Shannon Kenny plays his new 'boss' with great applomb.
Look for this if you can at your local video store.
Invisibly yours.
Tim Lasiuta
Movie Review: One of the best Scifi series of all time...
Summary: 5 Stars
This program was well written and well casted. I was sad when they canceled the series. I hope that season 2 will be out soon. I have pre-ordered this item. I CAN'T WAIT.Movie Review: "It's about time!" would be an understatement...
Summary: 5 Stars
...because I've been waiting for this show to come out on DVD since it was cancelled. I was beginning to lose hope that it would EVER come out on DVD, but thank goodness I was wrong! ^_^!
I watched this show for its entire run on the SciFi channel, and even now it's one of my favorite television shows. The humor was so dry and wonderful, and the story was incredible! I loved Vincent Ventresca's sardonic and surprisingly deep portrayal of a former con-man thrown into a completely new situation with his new-found powers, and Paul Ben-Victor's and Eddie Jones' characters had me cracking up for the full 42 minutes!
I highly recommend this show to anyone who enjoys comedy, drama, action, adventure, science, fiction, science-fiction, or cop shows, because this delightful show is a well-turned mix of all of them. Thank you Universal for finally getting this mini-masterpiece out on DVD! The only question I have now is: when is season 2 coming out? ^_^!