A waste of 90 minutes of my life

A Disappointing Continuation

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.

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

What an appalling piece of drivel. About as cerebral and challenging as Spongebob. They couldn't decide whether to rip off National Treasure or The Da Vinci Code, and so came down somewhere in the middle. I've seen better acting from my 8 year-old when he's been caught doing something naughty. Plot holes all over the place. What happened to the other clone from the malaria hospital? Where did he come from? The whole series ended up being about preventing the baddies from making a new baby Jesus (which, as we all know, would bring about the end of days), so how come when there were two of them implanted in two women only one had to be stopped, while the other gets to head off to Africa to "anonymously" heal vast numbers of sick people (including a mute child and a blind Internationally notorious terrorist who were able to track her down with remarkable ease)? And in the end, God seemed to be the one to prevent the disaster while the characters who had spent 12 episodes running all over the planet trying to save the world actually contributed bugger all. A monastery in the middle of a cartographic dead zone in Tajikistan, and when the rescue gets a bit tricky, the FBI cavalry are only a 5 minute helicopter ride away. Why not just bring them in the first place? I actually thought the basic idea might work, but it was so poorly executed that by the end I realised I'd only been watching out of a morbid sense of curiosity as to how bad it could get. It was almost like they started making each episode before deciding what was going to happen. And they obviously got pretty bored with the Nazi stuff pretty quickly and moved on, but forgot to decide what to move on to. You'd probably enjoy it if you're a gullible conspiracy nut who thinks most TV is just too well-made.

I just finished the show and was SO pleased by it and equally disappointed that it wasn't renewed. It was sent to Saturday nights after just a few episodes.Problem one was -very difficult for a new show- you absolutely could not miss an episode and had to give the whole hour the attention you give a movie. Unfortunately when it looked very Da Vinci Code AND included Nazis I rolled my eyes and let it drop off the radar. As post-apocalypse and vampires and werewolves have taken popular fiction - fringe religion and Nazis tend to dominate anyone pulling out history with a hidden agenda. But when you really sit down and watch it has the religious acuity of Dan Brown, the murder-mystery feel of Agatha Christie or Poirot, and yet characters that demand enough sympathy, despise, conflict, or quagmire. Hank is a little too skeptical at times but it shows the human fault that he's holding onto reason with as much irrationality as the droves of priests want to call everything a miracle. This show had me begging for the next episode each time and I was really sad to see it go. Shall we all bombard the network clocks and see if they'll bring it back before these diverse and talented actors are snatched to another show?

Hank Galliston (Anthony Edwards) publishes a skeptics magazine. He is forced into a hunt for holy relics after his wife Laila (Jacinda Barrett) is kidnapped. First he goes on a hunt across the globe for 12 clocks that will lead him to the true cross. Once there, the bad guys find Christ's blood to resurrect him. Of course, they want to use it to bring on the apocalypse.Anthony Edwards goes on a treasure hunt. The series has big ideas, big dreams, but never has the muscle to execute. There just isn't enough production value in a TV series to make this show convincing. It ends up with a lot of filler and the story feels very repetitive. They find a clock and it leads to the next clock and they find that clock and it leads to the next clock. The final episode drags on and on. The concept isn't executed well here. It's an epic journey that fails to be epic and the concept is too repetitive to be interesting.

Thank God, a mystery with a bald, middle-aged hero. I'm so tired of the sneering, posturing superhero that has the depth of a tissue. I'm also enjoying the mystery. It's an interesting story and one I look forward to watching. I tune into television to relax and be entertained. Just like National Treasure, a movie I thoroughly enjoyed, it's not meant to give us the meaning of life, it's designed so we can have fun and possibly learn some interesting facts along the way.What I liked about last night's episode was how it left me wanting to do some more reading about Einstein. His personal life was far more interesting than most people believe. If a program can do that, I say we need more of them. And the lines about love? Love can never be corny or irrelevant.