Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

OK, so bear with me here but I liked the series up until the end of season 4. I wont repeat what other reviews have said about the frequent writing and acting staff changes aside from saying that it made a steady ship appear to be going through a storm with no end in sight. Fairly weak characters and lack of continuity was patched as it went along and a chemistry developed that kept you watching the series because the series still had a strong premise that the writing staff continued to explore from time to time. The failure of this series came with all sorts of filler episodes that had little to contribute and often repeated things from previous episodes. I kept waiting for Da'an to come out of hiding and slap Zo'or off of his Machavellian ego trip. Sandoval was a character who started out as a nothing prick with little airtime and was put into the driver seat of the antagonist's van to prevent the show from looking like Zo'or was doing everything himself.Season 3-4 has Sandoval break away from his role as a Zo'or clone and pursue his own agenda even going so far as to have some moments against Zo'or. In my opinion that breakaway carried the show, and the whole thing with the Jaridians and the resistance was just a little back and forth that kept the engine running to the climax of Season 4 which was passable enough to leave me with the impression that the series ended well. I then discover to my dismay that there is a season 5 and it's very hard to describe my horror that the new theme and Renee Palmer as the lead gave me. Palmer was a good secondary character, and really EFC capitalized on the fact that secondary characters could be rotated in and out of the limelight but putting her in the driver's seat after taking away the Taelons and Jaridians and introducing the Atavus just sucked. I had to stop what I was doing and wrap my head around the fact that this was the same show, and I vowed then and there that I would pretend that season didn't happen. I suggest you do the same and watch only the first 4 seasons as this was an overall fun yet bouncy ride that any sci-fi fan would do well to survey--after all, anything Roddenberry is worth watching even if continuity goes out the window. A 6 out of 10 at best.

It's a bit difficult to explain, why E:FC got 5 stars from me, even though it has a lot of weakpoints to offer, which are capable of ruining every trace of interest and motivation in watching the series. Let's start it from the beginning. There's the charismatic William Bone in season 1, as he struggles to uncover the truth around the Taelons. A whole resistance army partially supports him and there are a lot of interesting characters in the story. So you might think, that nothing could go possibly wrong.In the next seasons, he is replaced by Liam Kincaid. Liam does quite a good job, but as the episodes progress, first continuity issues appear. Many supposedly "worldshaking" events occur, just to see anyone in the next episode acting, as if nothing ever happened. The plot development gets increasingly contradictory. Plus, they start decreasing the "important" characters involved in the story. The episodes in these seasons are of patchy quality. There are good and interesting ones, some rather bad and there are some pure fillers. I turned a blind eye to these flaws, because I was curious about how it would end. But then it came...The devastating fifth season. Continuity no longer exists. Nor any sense or logic. Everything is turned upside down and the explanations for the events are really ridiculous and nowhere near enough convincable.So, what originally started as an interesting series in season 1, steadily loses quality and ends in frustration. E:FC has some dramatical moments and well thought out episodes to offer, but even for sci-fi-fans I wouldn't go as far as give a recommendation. Except if you plan to watch only 4 out of 5 seasons.However, because of the good start and some highlights I ended up with 5/10.

As many commenters have said, the S1 is truly genius and the rest can be ignored.Except the well planed characters, lots of social-psychology thinking, actually what I really like is the overall taste/style of S1. It's more like a slow and idea provoking poem rather than a bloody fighting modern story. I watched S1 around 2002. Then seek the rest like crazy. However, after I finally got all the rest, I even fell in sleep while watching! really. Like Steve Jobs' commented on Microsoft: the only problem is that it simply has no taste, not in the small way, but a big way.I think the only positive thing in S2-S5 is that Agent Sandaval survives till the end: he rocks!

I love sci-fi and am willing to put up with a lot. Sci-fi movies/TV are usually underfunded, under-appreciated and misunderstood. I tried to like this, I really did, but it is to good TV sci-fi as Babylon 5 is to Star Trek (the original). Silly prosthetics, cheap cardboard sets, stilted dialogues, CG that doesn't match the background, and painfully one-dimensional characters cannot be overcome with a 'sci-fi' setting. (I'm sure there are those of you out there who think Babylon 5 is good sci-fi TV. It's not. It's clichéd and uninspiring.) While US viewers might like emotion and character development, sci-fi is a genre that does not take itself seriously (cf. Star Trek). It may treat important issues, yet not as a serious philosophy. It's really difficult to care about the characters here as they are not simply foolish, just missing a spark of life. Their actions and reactions are wooden and predictable, often painful to watch. The makers of Earth KNOW it's rubbish as they have to always say "Gene Roddenberry's Earth..." otherwise people would not continue watching. Roddenberry's ashes must be turning in their orbit as this dull, cheap, poorly edited (watching it without advert breaks really brings this home) trudging Trabant of a show lumbers into space. Spoiler. So, kill off a main character. And then bring him back as another actor. Jeeez! Dallas all over again.