Fresh and Exciting

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

After 10 episodes: Entertaining, interesting, easy to watch. Worth your time. BUT: the ability to control emotions and adrenaline surges as events unfold fly in the face of physiology and biology. Early heart attack candidates. Perhaps an educational show for Chicago Police Department and others. Acting is fairly convincing. Pacing is really good. I can see where the formula can get a bit boring over time. Excellent audio for a change compared to some other offerings where dialog is hard to hear, even with surround sound system adjustments. One thing seems a bit overdone... the tech the SRU has at it's disposal seems too military and over-armored for a civilian "police" force. A complaint voiced recently about many departments.

In America we call it SWAT, Special Weapons And Tactics. But in Canada it's Strategic Response Unit. These are the guys called in when in Toronto where the series takes place. They're not just go in and blast the hell out of the perpetrator. They do hostage negotiation among other things and the weapons at times are designed to try and take the victim alive. As often as not that's what happens in Flashpoint.This was a good Canadian police drama as we saw a lot of the various stories that unfolded from both a police and a perpetrator point of view. Enrico Colantoni headed the unit and regulars included series David Paetkau and former Power Ranger Amy Jo Johnson.The couple of episodes I saw showed a nice series. A shame our neighbors to the north decided to cancel it.

We are only two episodes in so far & already this series stands out from the crowd. Erase every preconceived idea you may have & just ... watch.The first episode could quite easily have been a Denzel Washington movie, the hostage taker is a bully so you kinda want him taken down but to the team it really is the last resort - the FLASHPOINT of a situation.Episode two .. my goodness what writing!!Special mention so far to Amy Jo Johhnson (Kimberly from the original Power rangers)as a female sniper.

I found this show to be a good mix of action and personal drama. The first episode shows there may be possible legal & moral consequences to a police sniper kill in addition to the usual congratulations from the team. The professional critics all seem to judge this show more on how it's not up to today's action standards (as they in the USA see them) rather than on how it might actually be entertaining. Perhaps the critics (or the networks) don't want to admit that a Canadian show with Canadian sensibilities could actually work here for fear of more imports to come. Too bad!!Since CBS decided to cancel Jericho last spring I didn't think there was anything good to watch until "Flashpoint". Great show so please don't cancel this one.