Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

good back-story, and good acting

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

The first half of season 1 was looking pretty good. Then the writers ran out of ideas and showed their true colors. Plot spoiler alert! The military are demons, the "occupy" anarchists are heroes and the bad guys are actually the good guys. Oh and the "best" part...the NYT reporters are honest journalists. HA!Typical liberal garbage. What a pile of crap.

After reading so many slams against this show I streamed it anyhow and was quite pleased even if it was cancelled after 1 season. The problem with these types of shows is that when successful they have to keep making the plots more and more extreme (Scandal, Covert Affairs, Alias, etc.) until they reach a point were the entire government is corrupt and all corporations evil (where it may seem that way, reality is obviously in between). What I liked was that even though the show started out to be heavily split between the 3 main characters, by the end they coalesced into a single story. We didn't get a Season 2 so there was no real closure for our characters, but even so they ended with each having accomplished what they set out to do. I don't need to see a screen writers story to take the end of Season 1 as things ending on a positive note. Yes, Adelle will have to live on the run her entire life, but she had the backbone to take down all involved which supported the our two secondary characters. Yes, one was left broken, but killing your girl friend and finding out she had killed your father would leave most people a mess for a while. So again, not really a negative, just the state after winning his battle. I enjoyed seeing a show end on a positive even if that positive has some downsides, it is much better than the crap they tend to pull like they did on Dexter.

Lower your expectations and you will always be happier. Come on this is a TV series and forget how outlandish or technically incorrect it is at times. If you distrust our government in some of the things it does let it be your X file. " The truth is out there" according to agent M. Do you believe that huge corporations could benefit from war? Do you believe that the U.S. would favor certain terrorists if it meant a Senator or CEO could make a hefty bundle? If you answered yes this show is great. It makes you really believe that the show is dishing out real world dirty underwear and pushing the political envelope. It might make you think some of this is true. I loved the cast, settings,the run, talk, shoot, drive and tension it produces. Maybe it created too much tension therefore I do not believe they will get another season.

OK so first the good parts. The acting is OK, the sets are nice, the pacing is good, no forced gratuitous sex scenes, a interesting conspiracy theme and good action and variance in characters.Now to the bad parts - the parts I would call "americanitis" or simply basic "hollywood stupidity", The plot holes, damsel in distress or just "good guy not using brain".Sadly this starts as early as the first two episodes.The main plot line is the female American soldier, lost in Mali and on the blacklist of the evil corporation. Early on she meets her future helper and uses his mobile phone to get the message of her being alive out into the world - good! thats fine for the initial setup. But from now on she struggles to get any message of her being alive out into the world, despite having multiple times access to SMARTPHONES via helpers or even just in her hands throughout the series. Just a quick video, and an email...and viola! "evil government conspiracy proved" tata!!!! Instead we see her being video taped like your average terrorist victim, and then some "unforseen" incident happens by which this video tape never reaches the intended person.Then the classic "good guy stupidity" syndrome. Having your enemy at your mercy, but instead of killing him (like any normal person) just let him live to give the series ONE more episode in which he can try hunt you down.and ooooh my god how predictable some of the bad guys are....seriously you cannot call this "twist" anymore because it's so clichéd... the placed assassin playing on his/her looks - who didn't see that coming a thousand miles away.Not to speak of the husband ..as others already pointed out. Who's only point is to provide some soggy emotional connection, besides being a total unrelatable person by ignoring all the evidence for his wife being alive. The cliché hacker nerd/ conspiracy theorist. And the super naive, brain dead, egocentric hero girlfriend who's only point in the series is to provide reasons for one of the heros to get permanently stalled in his plot progression to drag out the series.The problem with American TV series I guess is "quantity" over "quality". Have a good idea but use unbelievable stupidity to drag it out and make the good idea, first less good and then wreck it for the second half of the 13 to 14 episodes. So if you watch it for the action and sets and scenery and you can turn your brain off to these obvious issues it's OK fun. Popcorn entertainment.************ Update *************** the more episodes I watch the less stars I have to give to this series for pure stupidity of characters. - No don't kill the mercenary who is after you, just nurse him back and be the spec ops with a sole who can't kill a fly - Good guy try to prevent the hidden illigitimately disgraced person the chance to kill the evil senator (luckily that didn't work out ..phew! I was almost at the point to turn off!) - Oh yeah and NO never ever ask the french drug dealer with 50 smartphones in his car to use one to take a video to send via mobile internet to Al Gazira to reveal you are alive and have a Evil Cooperations Operative in custody that tried to kill you......GOD F* DA* IT! WHY WHY WHY do American TV series always start out good, with a great idea but then suffer from this INCREDIBLE STUPIDITY OF CHARACTERS...WHY!? Are most Americans really that retarded and deprived of any human common sense and the ability to put 1+1 together? I doubt that.Pay your writers more to have better ideas! Pay your actor stars less! thats the way to success.