The Invisible Man: Season One
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Movie Reviews of The Invisible Man: Season One
Movie Review: Completely Entertaining
Summary: 4 Stars
I loved this show. An old fashioned series like the serials on radio or early TV. Almost Lone Ranger-esque. Nothing begets watchability like chemistry, and the tandem of Fawkes and Hobbes was wonderful. From the first episode, Hobbes stole the scenes consistently until they started writing Fawkes up to the same level. Never understood why they kill shows like this but they feel the need to spin off Stargate Atlantis. Anyway, thrilled it's become available.
A recent show kinda reminds me of this. It's called Burn Notice, a summer show on USA. Go read the reviews of season 1 (which isn't out yet) and pick it up when it comes out. You won't be disappointed.
Movie Review: When will the rest be released?
Summary: 4 Stars
I have been waiting what seems like forever for this series to be released. My only complaint, other than the length of time it has taken, is I wish it was the whole series available now as I like my collections to be complete. (Which is why I was so disappointed that only the first season of Murphy Brown was released but none of the rest.) I wonder how long before the rest of this great series is available.
Does anybody know when season 2 will come out? I'm holding off watching the 1st set because I know if I do I'll want to watch the rest!
Movie Review: Outstanding, hilarious science fiction
Summary: 5 Stars
The brilliance of this show is in its cast and its unique, irreverent perspective on a very traditional set-up. The superhuman secret agent has been done a thousand times... but what if this time, instead of a giant, high tech organization, it's a tiny, perpetually broke black ops agency that gets their hands on him? What if he has to keep use of his powers to a minimum because the serum that keeps him sane is too expensive? What if instead of saving the world every week, they get whatever random, bizarre mission their bosses can turn up? (A break in at a sperm bank for geniuses, anyone?)
Halfway through the first season, the show goes from good to fantastic when Vincent Ventresca and Paul Ben-Victor (as the paranoid but more experienced operative) started improvising and embellishing their scenes together. Their buddy-buddy chemistry gives the show a grounded, lived-in feel that you rarely see on a special effects laden television series. It was shocking when the show was canceled due to budget issues because you didn't even see the special effects, you saw the characters.
Movie Review: Finally on DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
The Sci-Fi Channel's The Invisible Man finally gets a long overdue release on DVD, and be glad that it has. Arguably the best, original show to ever grace the network, The Invisible Man stars Vincent Ventresca as Darien Fawkes, a con-man and thief that undergoes an experiment upon getting captured and put in jail. The experiment involves a gland imprint in his brain that allows Fawkes to turn himself invisible, and after his agent brother is murdered and betrayed, Fawkes sets out to avenge his death, and battles assassins and other enemies in the process. He gets teamed with Agent Hobbes (Paul Ben-Victor), which provides some of the best moments of the series, which is frequently entertaining and even surprisingly innovative for its time. For a Sci-Fi Channel series, The Invisible Man also features some nifty effects work, and the underrated and underutilized Ventresca is wonderful and magnetic as Fawkes. Its so great to finally have The Invisible Man on DVD, and if you watched and enjoyed the show when it aired (it was one of the highest rated original programs to ever air on Sci-Fi), this first season set is an absolute must own.Movie Review: At long last!
Summary: 5 Stars
It's about time The Invisible Man came out in the U.S.!
This show demonstrates one of those rare confluences of talent: Great acting, chemistry and occasionally brilliant writing, all of which came together to produce something far greater than the sum of its parts. The Invisible Man was part of that once-epic friday night prime Sci-Fi Channel lineup that now resorts to rehashes (excuse me: 're-imaginings' if you go with Hammer-speak) of other networks' old shows.
Together with Farscape, another Sci-Fi Channel masterpiece, I-Man illustrated the truly original programming that now-blighted network once produced. I'm delighted that it will finally be appearing on DVD in its home country. We've waited an awfully long time for it, considering the drek Sci Fi HAS released (Black Scorpion, anyone?). But I-Man was always treated like the proverbial red-headed stepchild, ignored by its parent who showed every sign of being embarrassed by this quirky, funny, wonderful show.
Watching I-Man is a treat, and makes me long for a few good, old-fashioned scripted series. Ones with the same heart, brains, humor and talent behind them as The Invisible Man. I miss the adventures of Darien Fawkes and Bobby Hobbes. Give a me buddy show with characters like these any time! When Sci Fi killed both its original series in rapid succession, I left and have never gone back.
For reasons that escape me, Sci Fi Channel waited nearly seven years to release this in the U.S.. As with the other reviewers, I hope they'll be releasing season 2. But in the mean time, I'll bask in the glorious goofiness that was I-Man.