hyped garbage

Fantastic!

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

I love this show. That being said, it has some flaws. You can tell when it went downhill is when J.J. Abrams stopped working on it regularly. Season 1 is great, Season 2 is great, Season 3 was OK, Season 4 not so great, and I'm going to pretend Season 5 didn't happen. I'd have to agree with some of other reviewers on here, it seems like they ended up with a bunch of different writers that lost direction or understanding of what the show was about and where it was supposed to be going. It started out as a spy show with a hint of sci-fi, and ended up the other way around which was just weird. It seems like the only person who really understood the whole Rambaldi thing was JJ. I think that the actors did a good job with what they were given. Watch Season 1-3 if you want to check it out. Its on Netflix as of 8/16.

The whole show feels like a B-series all the way.The plot: Firstly, the backstory is just silly. Sydney is working for a spy organization that is an enemy of USA inside USA. They have a office, research lab and many spies and other personal working from a office building in plain sight. USA government knows about this and allow it to operate. This is just insane, that would never happened. They would be violently shut down the moment they knew about it. But instead they send in undercover agents.The actions in the episodes: It is so simple and unrealistic. They just walk into secret buildings, guards just disappear into thin air, and they have access to all kind of high profile events like government officials would, and they act like they was CIA. All is so unrealistic that it is a slap in the face of any thinking person alive. We don't see any use of intelligence and creative thinking, its just blunt action packed into a really bad setting.Shallow and uninteresting characters: As the rest of the series the characters feel empty and shallow. One thing I like to look for in TV-series/movies, is the atmosphere and tension between characters, the development of the relationships, and the depth of characters that allow you as a watcher to connect with the characters. But in this TV show this part feel non existent, the characters is too simple and shallow to build any tensions, atmosphere or connection.How the episodes progress: This TV show jump very quickly from scene to scene and take large jumps between the scenes. Usually Sydney usually visit 2-3 locations worldwide in each episode and its all just fast action and little story. There is little time left for charterer building or celebration of victories, its just continues action.What is good?: Pretty girl that do martial arts.Summary: The whole show feel very simple and shallow, like it was written in very short time without much thought. The continues action and little focus on character development, relationship building and creating an interesting story makes the show feel empty, simple and boring.

For some time now me and my husband have been watching a lot of TV series, so we've enjoyed '24', 'House of Cards' (the original and the new, American version), 'The Borgias', 'Damages'. Then someone recommended 'Alias' to us and gosh, what an utter disappointment that was. There isn't a single thing about that series that would make it worthwhile, unless it is the absolutely first series you have ever watched in your life; the story is flat and unbelievable, the acting is so god-awful that it's almost to the point of being abusive to the viewer, the dialogues feel stiff and unnatural, the fact that the secret 'CIA agent' always goes out in the field dressed in a way that would make her anything but inconspicuous is plainly ridiculous, as is the fact that people who get involved in fights in this film seem to be all made of titanium or something, as you can hit them all over their heads and faces with any heavy object you want and it won't leave a slightest mark on them.At first we decided to give it a chance and watched 3 or 4 episodes, but then we came to a conclusion that there are limits to how much you can let someone offend your intelligence. It's so predictable and simplistic it's boring and the only reason I could imagine someone would want to watch it is the pretty handsome bloke from The Hangover, who is also the only one doing a slightly better job acting-wise, maybe because he isn't really involved in the main plot, so his romance/drama role lets him stay safely away from the pathetically badly written main body.My advice is - if you have a spare hour in the evening and you want to spend it watching something you'd probably be better off going for 'Dawson's Creek', or anything else for that matter.

When ALIAS premiered in 2001, I just knew something special had been thrust upon the TV viewing audience! The pilot episode was brilliantly constructed. It starts out telling the tale of one Sydney Bristow (played with stunning conviction and depth by the delectable Jennifer Garner!), a 26-year old graduate student, who is engaged and has a circle of close friends (Bradley Cooper and Merrin Dungey). Her friends think she works part-time at a bank, but it is quickly revealed as Sydney enters the bank one day that she works in a super-secret organization underneath the bank called SD-6, which Sydney thinks is a component of the CIA. Syd's SD-6 partner is Marcus Dixon (played solidly by Carl Lumbly).When she tells her fiancé of her double life, the Director of SD-6, Arvin Sloane (played with slick, easy bravado by Ron Rifkin) has him killed because Sydney violated a major SD-6 protocol. Sydney tries to quit the organization, which she now knows is working with the enemy, not the CIA. In an attempt on her life in a parking garage, she escapes with the help of her father, Jack Bristow (more on him later) who she finds out is also a secret agent with SD-6 and has been most of his life, even when she was a child (she thought he was an airline exec).Jack Bristow is played by Victor Garber and for my money, this is one of the best TV characters ever! Garber's portrayal of Daddy Bristow was ALWAYS spot on, even when the series started to falter in its later years. Jack was smart, slick, gutsy, and 100% lethal! He would not hesitate to do what was necessary to get the job done. Of all the so-called evil geniuses this show threw at the viewer over the years, Jack Bristow, one of the good guys, was scarier than all of them put together! Screw Jack Bauer and 24! Jack BRISTOW was the best secret agent "Jack" running around in the early 00s!Sydney wants to quit, but realizes that to take down SD-6, she must work with the CIA, so she goes to the nearest LA office and meets with a "handler" Michael Vaughn (played solidly by Michael Vartan). Sydney and Vaughn of course had an underlying chemistry and sexual tension that would be stretched out (but not for long!).The first season and a half focused on Sydney working with Vaughn and her father to try to take down SD-6 from within. I say that the first season of ALIAS is one of the top seasons in all of TV history. There were so many twists and turns, exciting episodes, great character interactions (Sydney and Jack didn't exactly get along early on) that made this show highly enjoyable. There was a HUGE twist/cliffhanger at the end of the 1st season that is amongst the best cliffhangers ever! Then in its 2nd season, they introduced Sydney's mother Irina Derevko (played with cold-hearted, close-to-the-vest appeal by Lena Olin), who Sydney and Jack thought had died years ago. Turns out Syd's mom was an enemy agent tasked to seduce, marry, and betray Jack and she faked her death. The 2nd season was a pretty brilliant season as well, but then they took down SD-6 midway through the season in a surprising twist! And this is when the show started to run out of ideas IMHO. They did a cliffhanger at the end of Season 2 that I absolutely hated! And it really ruined the show for me. Then in later seasons, with no SD-6 around, Syd and her friends ended up working directly for the CIA and I found the CIA dynamics less interesting than when she was working indirectly for them to take down SD-6.Stories in the last 3 seasons seemed repetitive. You find yourself asking the same questions over again. Can Syd trust Jack? Can Vaughn prove Irina killed his parents? What is the mystery of Arvin Sloane? Etc., etc., etc. I also disliked that they abandoned Syd's double-life after season 2. Her friends found out who she really was one way or another and that spoiled that great early double (actually triple!) life dynamic of the show. Still, I say that from that first season, Jennifer Garner was flat out robbed of the Lead Actress Emmy! She plain should have won based on her incredible work in that impeccable season. And Victor Garber could have won at least 2 or 3 times (sadly, he kept losing to those WEST WING guys!). Also, special mention should go to Kevin Weisman as the hilarious Marshall. Marshall is ALIAS version of Q from the James Bond series. Marshall's lighthearted moments explaining the gadgets with his fidgety, funky personality ALWAYS made me laugh!Season 3 was essentially ruined for me by Melissa George (who played Vaughn's wife), who was a major character that didn't measure up to the other already established cast. But the absurd 2nd season cliffhanger surprise is what really led to it. There was some interesting stuff in Season 4 which kind of led to renewed interest, but by that point the show was really never the same as it had been it's first 2 brilliant years. Still, one of the better shows in the early 00s, but sadly, overall, not amongst the best!