Pretty Good

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) marries Sara Tancredi (Sarah Wayne Callies) on the beach. Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell) and Fernando Sucre (Amaury Nolasco) are witnesses. The police breaks up the celebration by arresting Sara for the murder of Christina Hampton. She had killed Hampton to save Michael. She is locked up in Miami prison instead of jail while waiting for trial. The guards are abusive for what happened in Fox River. Daddy (Lori Petty) is the head of the prison gang. T-Bag Bagwell (Robert Knepper) and General Jonathan Krantz (Leon Russom) are prisoners in the men's side. Krantz puts out $100k for a contract on Sara and Gretchen Morgan (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe) happens to be in the same prison. Cowler (Aisha Hinds) is a stand up guard. Alex Mahone (William Fichtner) is refused reinstatement back into the FBI but Agent Richard Sullins (Kim Coates) dangles the badge if Alex rats out Michael and his inevitable attempt to break out his wife.The movie is forced to jerry-rig the situation to bring it back to step 1 with several old characters conveniently in the same prison. It's got the Orange is the new Black vibe. The women's prison is good. There is one good twist but the escape isn't quite as compelling as the first original season. The movie simply doesn't have enough time to set up the escape attempt for the audience. There is the same familiar gang back together again. That's great for fans of the show.

Since the discs, do have an extended ending to the original series (I'm guessing the ending was slapped on after the movie was made), you might at least know where this is going. You might start to wonder, what happens to some of the characters between when this movie ends and the end of the show, but that wouldn't really help. There's too many questions that you don't want to ask there.Still it has some of the ingredients of the original show and it tries hard to do its best with it. Of course all of it is based on a premise that makes no sense whatsoever (whatever angle the camera had, there is still evidence that could help the defense case, a gun in particular), but I won't get into detail, so it won't be any spoiler.There are a few misdirections and misleads, but in the end, we know where this is leading. It's nice for the crew and the cast to be able to meet once more, but that should be it. Then again, some people might still want this to continue on and on and on and on ...

Well, over this summer I watched all four seasons of Prison Break (I don't know why I hadn't done that when it was fresh on the air). It took me about four to five episodes into each season, that I got really hooked up. I loved the characters and every so often I had to smile because of all the "cut the corners of a story" they had done in the script-department. This Monday I watched the finale of season four, and though I have to admit, I really hate it when they kill off a main character, it certainly was a fitting end to a great show. On Tuesday I watched "The Final Break". I was very willing to oversee the cheesy "corner cutting" and I was very excited to see Gretchen back. And, I was hoping till the end, that Michael's funeral was staged, and that he acted undercover or so. Well, he did not, and he really died. But this was all so meaningless to me. Why did he have to die anyway (OK, it wasn't OK with me at the fourth season finale). This whole movie was...just wrong. Lincoln did not really get a good part of it. Alex's struggle was believable, and I liked the tension in the women's prison. But, that is it. Why did they make the movie. It did not add to the fast story-telling of the whole show. Why put Sarah into Prison. There are so many things that did not add up. I wish they hadn't kill Michael, and I wish they did not make this movie. How about making another one. Maybe this time Michael and his buddies ARE undercover, doing something...anything but what they did in THE FINAL BREAK.

I was really excited to see this Final Break movie because I wanted to see how they wrapped things up and how they deal with the "unanswered questions" to provide me closure for one of my favorite shows. I wish I hadn't watched it though. It ruined the whole finale for me, heck, it even ruined the whole series for me almost. I felt like I wasted 4 years of my life investing in the characters in the show and it's all for nothing. The movie was so over the top (and that's saying a lot considering this is Prison Break, the mother of all things over the top!) and so made-for-Hollywood-summer-blockbuster that it deviated from the real essence of the show. When I watched the series finale on TV, I was a little disappointed but still, I found that that was a fitting end, albeit a bittersweet one. But this one was just senseless. I loved only the first two minutes of it. The rest of it, I wish I could have erased from my mind. The phrase "jumped the shark" is very fitting for this movie. I understand now why they decided not to include it in the original series finale and why they decided not to show it on FOX because people will surely throw their TVs out if they did. So, so disappointed! I want that hour and 20 minutes of my life back!