Beautiful, moving film.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

I found Alias on one of those top shows on Netflix nobody is watching. I watched the pilot and 6 episodes later went to bed primed for more. I am surprised I had never heard of it given the first two episodes launched the viewer into the world of Sidney at an intense pace, like grabbing a bullet train at full speed and trying to hang on. I'm only half way through the show, but I can't imagine the show self destructing. The pace of Sidney's missions are insanely fast, but that is part of what makes the show exciting. Things happen fast, change fast, and surprises are woven into the story line on a regular basis that are of large magnitude and game changing it is amazing that the show maintains its story with the constant ground breaking changes and shocking revelations. Realistic? Who knows, I'm not exactly in the position to judge the accuracy of a show about the life of being a double agent. Yes, it is a bit unbelievable that a group could fool its participants into believing they are part of the CIA when they are actually acting in complete counter actions to the CIA but then again they are supposed to be black ops under the radar and by definition without the oversight that the CIA has making them buy that the CIA can't acknowledge them because they aren't aware of them. So while it has its stretches it has an incredible pace, is exciting and Jennifer Garner a treat to watch even though until seeing her in this show is really the first time I've really liked her. In costume she comes off fantastic in her diverse characters that she pulls off great. They make the skinny little woman look capable of taking down 5 foreign intelligence officers as the fights are choreographed to be at a speed and her actions with precision that she has the skills to pull it off. I have read some harsh slams about the show, but it is the best show I've never heard of and am grateful for those lists of good shows nobody watches because I have found several very good shows that may not have won rave reviews but for me are top notch and this is one of them. Might be old, but as I waited for Season 3 of Arrow to come out the day Season 4 started it was a great filler to give me a show to watch that was difficult to fall asleep watching from the adrenaline rush. I love it!

Let me state my general opinion on Alias first: I pretty much love the show. Also, I'm not going much into depth but scratch on the problems I think they had while still having a great show. So, check it out, you'll probably know within the first few episodes if this is your type of show or not. Trust me, though, there is quite a bit of mythology coming up along the run (similar to Fringe and Person of Interest, who both started slow on that aspect).In my opinion, Season 1 & 2 were pretty much perfect in every aspect. While Season 3 felt a bit slowed down and struggling a little with how to move forward, Season 4A was a bit disappointment.A big plot point was dropped and kind of retconned between Seasons 3 and 4 - and it's the network's interference that almost killed the show. Not only did they make the writers go almost completely procedural in the first half on the season - no, the network also decided to air episodes COMPLETELY out of order, which lead to incredible inconsistent characterization. Do yourself a favor and research the production order of Season 4 and watch it in that exact order. It improves it a lot. Still, 4A has some nice procedural episodes but really lacks the overall story. They kind of salvaged it in 4B and in my opinion, Season 5 was nice, even though for some reason the core mythology was banned a little - again.This is actually today's textbook on why networks have to give writers the freedom to keep a show a show serialized if they intent to and not to try to make it a little more mainstream.Overall, I'd definitely recommend Alias. Others will disagree, but for me it was one of the most enjoyable TV rides I've watched.

For some time now me and my husband have been watching a lot of TV series, so we've enjoyed '24', 'House of Cards' (the original and the new, American version), 'The Borgias', 'Damages'. Then someone recommended 'Alias' to us and gosh, what an utter disappointment that was. There isn't a single thing about that series that would make it worthwhile, unless it is the absolutely first series you have ever watched in your life; the story is flat and unbelievable, the acting is so god-awful that it's almost to the point of being abusive to the viewer, the dialogues feel stiff and unnatural, the fact that the secret 'CIA agent' always goes out in the field dressed in a way that would make her anything but inconspicuous is plainly ridiculous, as is the fact that people who get involved in fights in this film seem to be all made of titanium or something, as you can hit them all over their heads and faces with any heavy object you want and it won't leave a slightest mark on them.At first we decided to give it a chance and watched 3 or 4 episodes, but then we came to a conclusion that there are limits to how much you can let someone offend your intelligence. It's so predictable and simplistic it's boring and the only reason I could imagine someone would want to watch it is the pretty handsome bloke from The Hangover, who is also the only one doing a slightly better job acting-wise, maybe because he isn't really involved in the main plot, so his romance/drama role lets him stay safely away from the pathetically badly written main body.My advice is - if you have a spare hour in the evening and you want to spend it watching something you'd probably be better off going for 'Dawson's Creek', or anything else for that matter.

The initial seasons 1 & 2 were very good and will keep us on the edge. Initially i though Jennifer is not fit for Sydney's character..I felt she is better off in innocent and moron GF type roles, But i was wrong, From season 2 she justified the character very well. The whole crew of this series is very good and everyone played their part very well. Coming to the negative part...I thing what i hate about this series is RAMBALDI and his artifacts there is no correct justification to that and the ending is worse. The worst one is season 5 in this season u see a pregnant sydney doing stunts and missions and Arvin sucks in this season and the story is way too bad with worse ending If you like TV series which keeps u on the edge (Like Prison Break and Lost..) I would suggest you to watch initial seasons mostly 1 &2 and 3 is good too