Wonderfully offbeat film!

This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

How sad is this?

Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

I loved this series but I'm not surprised it got canceled. The reason is simple, here we have a series about supernatural persons with powers like setting things on fire, super human strength or lightning fast reflexes just like the X-men. So what is the most important thing you should NOT cheap out on? The Special effects! The special effects in this series is awful. They for some reason thinks that this series about supernatural beings and powers would survive with B-movie special effects. A typical fighting scene is where two people "fighting" each others where they more or less standing still but they add "action" to the scene by shaking the camera. I'm talking about shaking the camera like it's mounted on a wet who dog tries to shake the water away... and on top of that they add.. "fire" or "smoke" using Ms Paint.. Even if they just leaving a vehicle to enter a house they would shake the camera like crazy.. This is the level of special effects in Alphas and I'm sure of that this is the reason they canceled it... Think of it, how popular would the X-man movies be with B-movie special effects?Besides the special effects this series is great. I love the actors and they do a good job. The script is good too with a great backstory that sometimes takes over a episode. The backstory is not just something happening in the back, it's the spine of the series. I love that the characters are human in the sense that they have real lives besides having the powers. Some try to hide their power and others is using it for their own benefit. They did not ask for these powers and some might don't like to have them since it will "only" cause trouble to them.I would love to see a new season with Alphas but with a 10x budget regarding the special effects. The ending did leave us hanging.. we need some conclusions.

I just got through seeing "Alphas" on Amazon Instant Video for free. I saw every episode, all 24. It's too bad Syfy cancelled "Alphas". It was entertaining, interesting, not boring. Why they cancelled it I don't know. The action was good and the special effects were credible.Usually Syfy TV series are awful. Usually the special effects in Syfy TV series are terrible. However, in "Alphas" they were pretty good. The characters were also credible and developed. I think Syfy should have had at least 1 more season. I think there was enough potential content to fill another season. Syfy also should have allowed "Alphas" to have an ending with finality, something where viewers would be satisfied. It appears to me the writers for "Alphas" wanted to continue with another season but Syfy just cancelled them.In a situation such as this, where the Network wants to cancel, I think Syfy should have at least allowed 1 more episode to allow for a definitive ending for the series.Good series, 8 out of 10.

We finished watching the last episode of the last season of this series last evening. Personally I was quite happy that it was over even though it ended in a huge cliffhanger. After watching season one we really only watched season 2 because my son wanted to watch it. Personally I would rather have watched something else.Actually I got downright frustrated every time I watched an episode in this series. This so called extraordinary team was really nothing but a bunch of bunglers with superhuman capabilities. They constantly screwed up, got entangled in their own personal problem or just behaved downright stupidly and then kind of managed to solve their case in the end after all.Doctor Rosen, who where supposed to be an expert on Alphas, was generally behaving like he was clueless. Both in terms of his profession but also as an investigator. Over and over again I sat and wanted to scream at the screen that he should listen to what people around him said but no…he just ran off because he had something else on his mind…again. The person playing Gary was probably doing a real good job of playing autistic but he was literally driving me nuts with his freaky and obnoxious behavior. Bill was mostly being an idiot and suffered from the same listening problem as the doctor. The rest of the characters was…well nothing to write home about.The main plot in the second season with the idea of enhancing alphas and killing everyone else with flashing lights was just dumb. When Rachel and Kat said how screwed they where because they couldn't turn of the lights in the station in the last episode I just went "thank god this show is over". Christ, never thought of covering your eyes or finding a dark place you dimwits? It is a shame. This series had great potential but it did not work out at all for me. I can understand why it was canceled after only two seasons.

I enjoyed Alphas first season, I really did, it did what Heroes constantly failed to do, it humanised the heroes problems. You sympathised with characters "because you could relate", then came season 2 and everything went skewed, if you've watched it there are plenty of reasons why it started falling apart. Gary becoming nothing much more than an anarchic blogger. Bill becoming an underground fighter. There are many more examples of failures in writing, but the one single shining point of light in the second series is Kat, because-well they did what they did in season one, made her relatable. I'm not sad there's not gonna be a season 3, I cant see anything good coming out of the "shocks" in Gods Eye, but I know I'm gonna be in the smaller camp here, it just got stupid and formulaic.