One of the worst movies I've ever seen

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

If you started JAG from the very beginning, you may have been excited about the show. NBC debuted this show which appeared to be a cross of "Top Gun" and "A Few Good Men." Lt. Harmon Rabb, Jr. played by David James Elliot was the main character with a catchy name at that!But what we saw were very wooden performances by the players. David James Elliot and crew are good actors, but they didn't seem convincing in their roles. The stories were worthy for a military show, but left little to be desired in the final product. While recycling footage from other movies is nothing new, the first season of JAG relied too much on many footage from "Top Gun" and "Clear and Present Danger" plus other military themed movies. For people who had seen those movies prior to JAG, it may have detracted a bit from the stories they were trying to present. T.V. Guide even "jeered" one of JAG's use of recycled scenes as one of their episodes had a scene which was taken directly from "Clear and Present Danger" and in a fashion that was not only footage borrowing, but literal scene stealing as T.V. Guide described it. Not cool.The first season didn't make many waves both in the network and with viewers and was subsequently cancelled. It looked like the show plus David James Elliot and company were going to be forgotten.Enter Season 2. . .The 1996 - 97 TV season was well underway when JAG returned in January 1997, but this time on CBS. David James Elliot was returning to his (soon-to-be) iconic role; with him, newcomer, Catherine Bell was tapped to play USMC Major Sarah MacKenzie. John M. Jackson (Adm A.J. Chegwiggin) and Patrick Labyorteux (Lt. Bud Roberts) who were previously recurring/guest characters returned as regulars on the show.Along with new faces to the regular cast, came new and improved writing that appealed to viewers. I don't know if hit TV creator Don Bellesario went to CBS or CBS went to him, but they took a chance: they succeeded. JAG became the hit DB wanted it to be and it aired for eight more years!The second season still used footage from "Top Gun" and other military movies in its opening sequence, plus episodes. However, it appeared that they toned the recycled scenes a bit which is a good thing (as again, they seemed to detract from the show itself in the first season).Eventually, most or all recycled movie scenes were gone. They shot their own military scenes, and unlike in the first season, the Departments of Defense and Navy cooperated in the shooting of JAG. When available, scenes were shot aboard real U.S. Navy ships, plus Marine Corps and Navy shore bases.The characters really took off and developed from season two on. The stories were something people cared about and loved to see. A few more characters joined the cast as the show continued on.Like most military movies and TV shows, there were artistic liberties taken in how they were portrayed (like a former F-14 pilot turned military lawyer still being able to get flight time!). But how the actors carried themselves were very convincing; they had the military bearing and command presence down pat! The wooden performances from season one all became but a forgotten memory.Many (cancelled) shows that get a second chance rarely make something at that shot. JAG went above and beyond when Don Bellesario, the writers and the actors regrouped and made an excellent comeback which remained at the top of its game until the very end!

I started watching JAG in 1997 and it immediately became my favorite TV show. Vietnam era vet in the USAF too bad they didn't have more interaction with the Air Force. Anyways, a GREAT show. But then, because of circumstances I missed seasons 8, 9 and 10. Just recently I've been watching them on-line, and sadly, I have to say this great show got bad by season 9 and season 10 was almost unpalatable to watch. Why and how could this have happened. 1) Too soap opera, where there was more emphasis on the character interaction than the court cases, but the worst reason was 2) the characters became hokey and silly. Unreal. Like "check me out, aren't I neat?!" The only ones who had any sense of original propriety were Harm and MAC. The worst one was this Vic. It's OK to have some "Hollywood license" but what makes a character great is when they display INTEREST, in their lives, their work, with others. But when they become INTERESTING with their silly overdone personalities and quirks, they become a distraction and annoying and that's EXACTLY what happened. (this by the way, was WAY worse with NCIS - I couldn't get thru one episode the characters were so overdone and "interesting" instead of being interested. Only Mark Harmon was good) If they had just kept the brashness of Vic and used JUST that with his interactions that would have been good. But he became so overbearing. The new Marine JAG also didn't have to be so serious. In it's favor, the character development of Bud from bumbling geek (too overdone) to competent lawyer was good Also, so many handsome men and gorgeous women. Yes, to be expected from Hollywood but too unreal for the military. MAC is a little chest-heavy but has the face of an angel, she is so beautiful, although the short-crop hair of season 10 was a detraction. In any case, the 2 very best plot developments was the interaction between Harm and Mac AND the intricacies of the court cases. By the 10th season that got lost with the silliness of other characters and sub-plots. Season 3 through 6 were the best. All in all though, a TREMENDOUS show. Thank you Mr. Bellesario for your creation. Now if you can make a series of my book Point Of Return about the attempted assassination of President Reagan, THAT would be great!

This was an unusual product for the mid 90s. While most American pop culture was shifting from the shallowness and right-wing tinged culture of the 1980s (thank God!!) this show continued an ugly 80s hangover.If you thought that Red Dawn and Top Gun were artistic films with highly sophisticated dialogue and deep sociological insight then this is the TV show for you.Hypocritical, hyperbolic jingoism. This is such a TERRIBLE show! Full of brainwash and completely 2-faced. In 1 episode they busted horrible, evil marijuana smugglers who were destroying and addicting America's youth. Then 10 minutes later they engage in a healthy contest to drink each other under the table with healthy, life giving alcohol. COMPLETE GARBAGE!!

I became a JAG fan in 2002 and saw as many as I could until it ended in 2005. I won't spoil that but it is worth seeing. I am not sure when it happened but at some point early this year on DIRECTV I noticed that they had USAHD (channel 242). I checked it out and found that they were running two episodes at 7:00 AM and 8:00 AM Eastern time every Monday through Friday.I immediately put the series on Record All Episodes on my DVR, the greatest new technology to come along. Since I can fast forward the commercials, I can watch a one hour episode in about 40 minutes. That allows me to keep pretty current with seven days to watch ten 40-minute episodes.When I started, they were running episodes from 1999. It was great getting to watch episodes that happened before I started watching, especially at the rate I have been watching. At this accelerated rate, Today I just caught up to an episode I had seen in 2002. At this point they are running a lot of episodes pertaining to post 9/11 current (then) events in Afghanistan.I do not know if they are going to keep on running them, but as long as they do I will be recording and watching. Even if you do not get HD, they are running them on the normal USA channel.I highly recommend you record this series and watch it from here on. It gets better and better.