Reviews

I just watched the pilot episode and I came away feeling that I had seen everything before. The plot elements seemed familiar along with the characters. The whole show gave me the feeling that the writers pulled bits and pieces out of different shows and assembled them into this new show. I can't say I didn't like it. But that's mostly because the show reminded me of "Crossing Jordan". The main character could be described as Jordan Cavanaugh with a gun :-). The rest of her staff were not unlike the "Crossing Jordan" supporting cast. The main FBI agent character was not unlike the Jack Bauer character from "24". It was entertaining enough, but I don't think it will be sustainable as a series.

I watched the two hour pilot and the first two episodes and came away thinking that this could turn into a decent cop show. The story lines remind me of some episodes of "Police Story". But the show avoids the rawness you could find in "NYPD Blue". The only problem I have with the show is that it doesn't really have much in common with the original Kojack series besides the lolly pops. Telly Savalas gave us a smart, slick detective and because of that, he was cool. This new Kojak tries to be cool first and be smart and slick afterwards. It just doesn't have that old "Kojak" feel at all. They should have made this into it's own show instead of trying to capitalize on an old series.

Considering the potential this move had, the reality was disappointing. While it's always nice to see Jennifer Aniston in a movie, even that couldn't turn this around. Most of the action was predictable. The jokes were flat to mildly amusing. And the characters were not very interesting. I wanted to like this film, but it just never happened. Ben Stiller was hilarious in "There's Something about Mary". Here it looks like he's just going thru the motions. If they have to lift plot points from "Friends", they should have known something was wrong. The toilet humor should have stayed in the closet :-).

Watch "50 First Dates" instead.

I can't believe how awful this movie turned out to be. I feel magnanimous even referring to it as a "movie". The acting was flat, the editing was terrible and the plot leaves many major questions unanswered. The premise was OK, if unoriginal: a small group of aliens is living in the US and trying to slowly take over humanity. But it goes rapidly downhill from there. How could they convince a "human" to accept an alien as his wife in order to make they alien-human hybrid they require? They show a larval alien but never show what it does. They have a plastic surgeon that can produce perfect looking skin on an industrial scale. They throw in the obligatory huge alien monster with teeth. The ending was almost too painful to watch. I suppose that I'm mostly disappointed that Bruce Boxlietner would have anything to do with this. How could he say to the huge alien monster with teeth, "Get away from him you son of a b*tch" with a straight face? It's a long fall from his Babylon 5 days. Avoid this at all costs.

This movie is just bad: bad acting, bad storyline and bad action sequences. You can't expect anything else from that seagal guy, but I was disappointed with Busey and Jones. I suppose they weren't given much to work with. My main complaint has to be with the director/writers. These guys obviously have never even seen an Iowa-class battleship. Does anyone actually believe that a ship with nuclear weapons would really be left unguarded? It was never like that when I was on the New Jersey.

Erika Eleniak, though, is very nice to look at. The cake scene is the only worthwhile part of this movie.

I still can't belive Louis Gossett Jr. agreed to appear in this film. Everything about this move feels artificial, forced, and contrived. The air sequences are flat. The enemy characters seem like puppets. This is just a poor excuse of a movie. At least Top Gun had air sequences that looked good (the external shots anyway). The songs by Queen are cool, though. Rent Midway instead.