Boring, long, and too preachy.

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

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

You should have made the new Hawaii 5-O close to the old story. The old show was professional and more to real life. When you have employees that complain, or find fault with their job, they aren't to happy with the job. Danny needs to be more professional. What police department acts the way the new Hawaii 5-O acts.

I still want to go to Hawaii on a vacation. I finally saw the first season of this groundbreaking series. It's set in Honolulu, Hawaii and filmed entirely on location with guest stars and locals. The series has Hawaiian feel but the show is first rate. Jack Lord was perfect to play Steven McGarrett who runs Hawaii Five-O with his colleagues. I love the guest stars and the scripts are first rate. The series moves at a perfect pace. The drama moves well with innovative twists and revelations to keep the audience tuned in. This was the first crime drama series to be filmed outside Hollywood and New York City by 1968. Despite the beautiful scenery, paradise like Hawaii faces crimes. You can't be off guard even in paradise. I do hope to get there someday. Still the Hawaii in this version of the series is before construction and tourism boom.

Outside of Jack Webb I don't think you could make a better case for a cop being totally professional than with Jack Lord as Steve McGarrett. Even with Webb you got hints of a private life usually in the squad car as he and Ben Alexander or later Harry Morgan rode around between locations on an episode. In fact usually TV series last because of various personal dimensions gradually introduced into a series for the characters. But in Hawaii 5-0, never. Lord was appointed by the Governor of Hawaii to head a special state police force to really go after the high level crooks. His jurisdiction was pretty well anywhere he wanted it. I never saw any complaints from Honolulu PD or any other local police entity about it in the 12 years Hawaii Five-0 ran. Lord had a picked team with James MacArthur, Kam Fong and several other local players from Hawaii as other police assigned to him. Richard Denning made some appearances every so often as the governor. In fact MacArthur as Danny Williams was the guy that McGarrett ordered almost every week to 'book 'em Danno' in the show's most celebrated catchphrase.Hawaii Five-0 had three great things going for it. The first was Hawaii itself. I for one can't get enough of the scenery. It's the most beautiful place on the planet and that's on several different levels. I don't the show would have lasted twelve seasons if it was done in East St. Louis.Secondly the writing was extraordinarily good matched by the editing. I don't recall a frame of extraneous film in any given episode. Like McGarrett and his team, every show got right down to business and moved.Lastly it was Jack Lord who created a character that solely and totally focused on his job. Normally those are not warm and fuzzy people, but the absolutely incorruptible Steve McGarrett was a guy that any citizen would want to know is serving and protecting. Even if he didn't seem to have a personal life.To live and work in Hawaii, it doesn't get better.

I might have given this show a 10 but for one reason--this longest-running American police show went on a bit too long and towards the end the quality really suffered (especially the last two which were horrid seasons). The reason I love it so much is that it not only was fun and exciting, but was one of the best-written dramas of its time. Again and again for over a decade, writers gave us exceptional scripts and the familiar faces were something many people wanted to see again and again. Sure, a few of the plots were a bit ridiculous if you thought them out (such as the number of times and ways the evil Communist spy "Wo Fat" battled with his arch-rival, McGarrett or the number of episodes involving organized crime--no place on this planet is THAT dangerous). But despite these occasionally silly plots, the shows were fun and you could suspend disbelief. Who can watch episodes like the one with the identical McGarrett who is doing evil (thanks to, you guessed it, Wo Fat), the Vashon series, "Daddy's little helper" and the murdering hillbilly family and not enjoy the show?! Now apart from occasionally over the top plots, there is one other possible complaint some might have about the show and that is that McGarrett is such a major square! While in the earliest episodes he DID fight and punch a lot, later he was much more laid back and often wore a black suit (in tropical Hawaii??). Plus, on his days off, he tended to dress a lot like an effeminate version of Fred from "Scooby Doo" (with his silly hat and scarf). But it was because he was so square and didn't care that actually made him seem very, very hip to me! Plus my wife really thought he was quite the stud-muffin in the earlier episodes! So the bottom line is that consistent writing (until seasons 11 and 12), excellent characters and cerebral and well thought-out plots are why this series lasted so long. Also, there is GREAT NEWS--Seasons one and two were just released on DVD. Let's just hope that they release the entire series--though at 12 seasons, it's tough for most folks to afford this!UPDATE: All 12 seasons are on DVD and are also on Netflix. Enjoy.