A Brilliant Conflict

A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

I liked the story and I recommend watching the series. Write a script for the story Arbitrator and Strange You can enter the world of serial heroes

I have only seen the first 2 seasons, I doubt I will watch 3 and 4.I was exiting when I saw the first season of this series. Many interesting scenes, cool technology, introduction of persons. How the main character struggle to adapt after traveling back in time. Struggle to find out what happens, try to get back, find a purpose.Unfortunate, in season 2, all is predictable. The rule of the good and bad persons reverses from 2012 to the future. Every person become very static and predictable and no real character development.Boring! Cliché in talk, standard shooting scenes, pointless violence. Play on all the normal issues with corruption in police, politician and powerful business men. All people just play a standard role.Laughable is the genius that invent so much cool technology in the future. The typical one man (boy) show, that can do all, even the impossible. But so easy to trick, that his older self can play him like an instrument over many years in distance.

I must admit I'm only just through season 2, and I take the point that this is more a cop show than Sci-Fi, but I do like the concept. Time travel is always fun to play with, and those critics who dismiss the series saying time travel is impossible, don't know their theoretical physics. It ain't possible now, nor in the immediate future, but ultimately, almost anything is possible,However, attractive leads don't compensate for uneven acting, I suspect mainly due to the direction rather than the actors (although Rachel Nichols' (Kiera) mind frequently seems to be somewhere else, and that's not looking 'back' on her lost future!). Intonation of some of the actors sounds as if they are speaking to a blank wall rather than another character, and some dialog is overly close-miked, giving an incorrect audio perspective.Back and forth dialog between two characters often seems as if each person's lines were delivered in isolation and later cut together; they appear not to have been shot in real time and so the actors don't quite sound as if they are really talking to each other. Knudsen (Alec) is one of the actors who avoids this and to my mind is the best actor in the cast. Dialog writing is a common problem, giving actors phrasings that don't sit naturally and are difficult to act convincingly. Why more dialog was not rewritten on set is beyond me (or it was done, but poorly). The uneven acting becomes very obvious if you watch this after watching any of "Eureka", "Fringe", "Sanctuary" or go back further to the stunning performances in "Babylon 5".In a few places editing is a little sloppy with action not cutting quite as it should, and some of the big set scenes are far too extended. It seems the director wanted to push the mileage out of these scenes and was reluctant to lose treasured footage. The cinematography is generally fine, as is most of the lighting (but not all).Finally, the music scoring is terrible. Uninspired and often in conflict with the action. Again, watch any of the series mentioned above, all with different musical styles, but all with scores that both compliment and enhance the scenes. (The "Babylon 5" score is a bit dated now, but still works well, and the scoring for "Sanctuary" is probably the best of all.)To summarize: (First, I'm not just an armchair critic but have professional experience in acting and directing. Also a lifetime semi-pro musician with a love of film music.) So; the concept and story-lines generally are fine, but execution suggests the budget didn't allow adequate time for shooting, editing or scoring. And the overall style is 'off' somehow. Definitely not up with the usual high standard expected from Canada. I persevered into series 3 ep 2, then, in disgust, threw the lot into the garbage!

I'm only writing this review because I want the execs and writers to hear the voice of a Sci-Fi fan. This show sucks. It's another drama/cop show with boring plots. All the stories I've watched so far play out just like every cop drama and I HATE cop dramas, I don't hate cops, just the way they are portrayed on Television, and that includes detectives in CSI and all that other baloney. They never get to the heart of how complicated most cases and people are. And this show suffers from that as well. It's an hour long episode of people bickering, little lies, confrontations that rarely ever end in any form of real resolution.As far as the plot holes, here's one, it's supposed to be sci-fi but there isn't any. Having a few gadgets does not make it sci-fi.And there are so many of these shows, Defiance, The 100, Falling skies, Revolution, and more I'm sure. They all build there stories upon conflicts that are rooted in the characters having poor logic skills or poor lines of communication. Then there's the constant gun play, so many shoot outs, with so little resolution.You know what made Star Trek so great? They found ways to tell stories that didn't revolve around people arguing. Sure, some of the episodes were more boring than others, but not as boring as watching fake gun battles.Please, if you're reading this and you're a writer or a T.V. exec, just know that this kind of schlock has go to stop.