The Wire - The Complete Fourth Season
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Movie Reviews of The Wire - The Complete Fourth Season
Movie Review: Best HBO series
Summary: 5 Stars
Absolutely great series, just as good as "Sopranos". No matter
if it's the first or this fourth season now, they are all equal.
Very, very good!!!!!
Movie Review: The Wire the fourth season
Summary: 5 Stars
The product was received in a very fast pace. The video was in excellent condition. I will recommend and purchase from them again. Movie Review: TV does not get any better on either side of the Atlantic
Summary: 5 Stars
The Wire started off as the best and most inteligent cop show on TV. It has now moved on and is simply the bravest and best series ever to come out of America, or Britain for that matter. The is still a lot of cops and drug dealer stuff, but that plot line has to share time with the infighting at City Hall, the Baltimore Police Department and the failures of the Baltimore school system. Without giving to much away, if the local politicians, the police and the schools were as efficient as the drug buisness, then Baltimore would be a much better place to live. While the bosses at the Police Department are fighting amougst themshelves and trying to hide rather than fight crime, the drug dealers have set up a Co-Op to organise the trade in narcotics.
However the main story line concerns four teenagers and their struggle to get something from school and stay out the corner drug trade. The good teachers, including 'Prez' who has left the police, are ground down by the system which presumes that the kids will fail.
The new drug kingpin is Marlo from series 3 a cold businessman whose ruthlessness makes Avon Barkesdale look like your ideal neighbour. One draw back is that because of the various plot lines and the many more characters, all of whom are in true Wire style are given time to develop, you may see to little of your favourite characters from the first three series. In my case this was true with to little being seen of Lester and Kima. Glad to say however that Omar is still plying his deadly and strangely honourable trade.
This is the only show I have seen which portrays working class and underclass America in such detail. It may seem hopeless but you do see people, mainly women, maintaining a decent life under the most extreme circumstances. Others like Cutty turn their back on crime and try to help the neighbourhood kids. In this series even Wee Bay, a ruthless hitman is shown to have a decent side when it comes to keeping his son out of 'The Game'
As in the previous three series there is not a weak performance.This series however the prize must go to Andre Royo as Bubbles who may be a drug addict but is also possably the best man in the series. It will break your heart to what happens to him and Royo's acting is a good as you will ever see.
The bonus features give a lot of interesting information including that a lot of the story and the characters are based on reality. There was for instance a real Baltimore Homicide cop called Bunk.
If you are already a fan you will not need any urging to watch the series.
If you have never watched it go out and buy the first three series because once you have watched the first you will want to see the rest.
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Movie Review: Wire Fourth Season
Summary: 5 Stars
Amazon hats off to you! The DVD's, excellent condition great delivery, verey good service! As for the Wire, what can I say, one of the best features on HBO. Having worked in the Criminal Justice field, I wanted to get a clear story for the purpose of teaching. The Wire gave a real and accurate look at both the victims of crime and the effects of crime. Played to the teeth by all of the cast. The Wire Directors recruited some of the best cast and writers for each season. I own all all of the seasons but the 5th. The Wire serves as a great teaching tool as well. Amazon provided a clean video, with good sound and color. The package arrived in tact and I am very picky where I spend my money. My expectations are high when I shop online and I am not afraid to pull my business!!! Thanks to all the crew members of the Wire!!!!!!!!!! And thanks to you Amazon. You won my business!!!
Movie Review: Brilliant, and not quite what you've heard
Summary: 4 Stars
The comments the preceded my catching up to The Wire's 4th season were that this fourth season was "a watermark for dramatic television" or "the best thing ever filmed." Those are some lofty bits of praise to rise up to, and after falling deeply in love with the first three seasons of The Wire, I'm afraid I don't share the same reservationless love for season four as I do for the first three. Let me be quick about what I think doesn't actually work - too much budget talk (Carcetti gets into office and what we do is go over the books?), too much drama at the school about struggles with language arts testing scores (this is The Wire, full of beauracratic cynicism, but testing is a bit of a necessary evil), and, mostly, less bombs set off than in previous seasons - our beloved main characters mostly make it through the year unscathed until the last couple of episodes, which is different from how they've done things in the past.
That said, what's left are some of the most memorable moments for our beloved street thugs and not-always-as-beloved cops and politicians, plus an endless string of memorable moments following four boys who'll grow up to meet some destiny this season or the next. The season surprises most of all with Naimond (Julito McCullum) and Michael (Tristan Wilds), two friends of various degrees of potential whose stories defy predictability by drawing you in with the kid, teenager, and the adult peeking out of every interaction they have. We follow them as they flirt with, walk away from, and, quietly, conclude where their lives on the street and in school will take them, and the results are both subtle and heartbreaking, enormous and genuine. This show has never had a bad performance, but in season four, it's McCullum and Wilds who take honest, no frills acting to a new degree - when Naimond quietly cries, in the season's penultimate episode, "Michael isn't Michael anymore," you know not only the sad truth of that statement, but also both the tragedy and hope of the society that changes dreams and molds life. That work is staggering, the budgeting work is not.