Matialth
Good concept, poorly executed.
Inadvands
Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess
Animenter
There are women in the film, but none has anything you could call a personality.
Zandra
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
Joshua Lawrence Pike
Threshold I'm going to let you all in on a secret, I rarely like alien invasion stories. It's not that I dislike the idea, it's that they are hard to get right and most of them have glaring flaws I can't ignore. That was my problem with Falling Skies.Threshold has been called a reverse X-files. In it a probe gets to earth and changes people, they become faster, stronger, and tougher. They start to carry out the agenda of the aliens. The show is about the team that is put together to make contact with them, then to deal with the threat.The show is intelligent, it has very well developed characters who try to solve problems made harder by the fact that only they know what is really going on. They have countless people working for them but none of them know the whole truth. Often classifying data during emergencies is shown to be done with little thought, or just serves to get in the hero's way. In Threshold it is rightfully shown to be necessary, it causes headaches and sometimes makes things worse but is needed.It is just one season of a planned three, but It's still good and worth watching if you can track it down.www.JoshuaLawrencePike.com
jdana-2
I actually missed this series when it was on and found it by accident while searching for other Peter D. stuff. It looked interesting so I bought the series. I started it on Saturday morning and watched it straight through back to back episodes! I couldn't believe how good it was! Each episode got more and more involved, blending more characters and beefing up the plot. Every episode was edge of the seat with wonderful comedy tucked here and there. I don't know the story behind the cancellation, but this one really deserves a comeback provided the original cast can be acquired still. I haven't seen such great character chemistry with such a big group of people since star trek. I especially loved how each "department" headed by one of the original people was starting to evolve to include newcomers as the task became larger. I would have loved to see this go to the next season as the storyline held such promise. It was a complete screw up to let this one go!
MrGKB
...which is to say, if this somewhat promising series hadn't had the plug pulled on it before even a single season had aired.My brother turned me on to this one courtesy of the spiffy 4DVD set from Paramount/CBS, and his recommendation was certainly a point in its favor, but I can't say that "Threshold" will be a repeat viewing favorite. The premiere episode was well done, very promising in a high-tech "Amazing Stories" sort of way, but as the series unfolded, I found myself increasingly frustrated with the limitations and demands of serial commercial presentation. This could well be a reflection of the weaknesses of creativity by committee, or more simply the fault of the premise itself.This is not to imply that the series was bad; far from it. The concept was reasonably solid, if somewhat derivative (but what isn't these days?): alien invasion via genetic manipulation, complicated by spreading the "infection" via multiple vectors, all of this told primarily from the viewpoint of a top-secret think tank assembled to deal with just such a contingency. Take a little "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," mix in elements of "The Invaders," John Carpenter's "The Thing," and "The X-Files," season with a generous helping of decent actors and quality production values, and you have "Threshold." Unfortunately, it didn't quite work. The cancellation of the series was certainly less of a surprise than that of, say, "Firefly," another (much better) short-lived sci-fi series.I think the problem was that the creators of "Threshold" couldn't decide if their show was to be character-driven or idea-driven, and as a result, it wavered between both to the detriment of both. The leads are reasonably engaging actors, but the writing fails to establish them as anything much beyond typical TV stereotypes, with the possible exception of Peter "The Station Agent" Dinklage and esteemed stage and screen character actor, Charles S. Dutton. Carla "Spin City" Gugino is somewhat unbelievable as the hyper-intelligent theorizer, although she does her best with what she's given by the scriptwriters. Brent "Star Trek" Spiner reprises his Data persona sans funky make-up, Rob "Felicity" Benedict tackles the computer geek role, and Brian "Black Hawk Down" Van Holt provides the black ops muscle. Unfortunately, they all add up to less than the sum of their parts.The writers are careful to not reveal too much too quickly, but also fail to reveal enough of consistent substance. And they cheat. Case in point is the premiere-ending image of a city full of traffic arrayed in the shape of the signature alien fractal. It runs completely counter to the premise of alien infection; it simply hasn't spread that far yet. One of the featurettes on the DVD even admits this.I watched all thirteen episodes over the course of about three days, including extras. I don't feel that my time was wasted, but I also know that I won't be returning to the show anytime soon, nor am I overly heartbroken that it died at the relentless imperative of Nielsen. "Threshold" just wasn't as smart as it wanted to be.
nrivoir
I am a science fiction fan, I watched all X-Files, Star Treek, V, Galactica,etc.In my opinion it is one of more original series of 2005. It is a shame that it was canceled. CBS does it usually and it in annoying.Why the producers and the writer cannot find another channel interested in continuing the series? They must defend their idea against the economical interest.If it is a matter of few audience, I think they must wait a longer time more at least one more year: 13 episodes are few to impulse a new interesting idea. The actors are excellent.Specially Jeffrey Donovan in Vigilante, Brian van Holt as Cavennaugh, Charles S. Dutton as J.T. and Brent Spiner as Dr. Nigel Fenway.
