Did you people see the same film I saw?

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

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

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

I loved the original Heroes series, all of it. I want more. I liked Reborn. But that is not to say it doesn't have pitfalls. As so many have pointed out... the stuff with cheerleaders always carrying pom poms around, even leading the students out the door at the end of the day, too over the top obvious. I get the whole fate of the world kind of idea, but something that big needs more than 1 season to develop. The whole fate of the whole world thing is too over done. But I loved how many different things that the Heores universe brings together. And that it is not driven by just a handful of characters but a plethora of people cast and filmed world-wide, in different languages. I want Tim Kring and cast and company to continue to do more. That's why I give it the 10, because there is not that much out there being made that can do what this show can do. And yeah the CGI for the game world did need to be better. But I like that they brought in that concept. A little better development and setup for Miko was certainly in order. I definitely had a greater feeling for the characters of the original series, but these could have been just as good. There is still a lot of great potential for this universe, please work it.

I write this thought to whoever has enjoyed Heroes as I have.Hiro Nakamura has been my favorite since ever – he can bend space and time, go to the past or the future and change history. I am greatly intrigued by this timeless possibility. What if we could see things without being restrictively time-bound? In fact, we will be able to do so. Everyone will. Once this life in time is gone, there will be a life without time. God is there. He is life, but he is not inside time. And so the Book says that for Him one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. He can do much more than Hiro, because He exists outside, beyond, and above time. However, with this amazing power, He chose to save the world from something that would happen. Angela Petrelli could see visions of the future. I always thought what was the point of a vision of warning if it actually comes true. Well, there is a point if something is done to change history. The Book's plot is similar to the Heroes. It states that the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat. So it is there. All the earth will in fact be destroyed – that is the future that only a timeless God can see. Now what has He done about it then? Well, that is the trick. Since He is outside time, He came into the boundaries of our time. And when He did so, He decreed His own death. All this was well planned. During all of man's time-bound history, He showed signs of what would happen and gave visions to people about Himself coming to Earth. Like the bronze serpent in the desert that saved many people from death – "Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived." So today the symbol of medicine is a serpent on a pole. Another symbol was the lamb slain on Passover, a Jewish feast that celebrated deliverance from captivity. God, who was out of time, entered time as a Lamb, to be slain for all humanity. And here is the most amazing part (if you managed to read up to here). He actually gave His own life before He started all creation. Before the foundation of the world, God decreed His own death sentence in order to save humanity from a terrible fate. Since He is beyond time, the past is like the future for Him. Again and again humans made wars among them, killed their own children, and did evil towards nature and all Creation. But there was always a glimmer of hope somewhere, to sustain the possibility of a new creation, where all the things of the past would be forgotten. So His plan is, after all this happens, to wipe all tears, bring evil deeds to justice and make all past things forgotten (like the Haitian's mind-forgetting power).Now what if Hiro Nakamura took you to the beginning of it all, in a Garden with two trees. The first, the Tree of Life. You could choose to eat from it, or from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. What would you choose? Truly, this choice is before you now. Humanity can be saved because of the Lamb of God who destroyed the damaging effects of time, such as death. You can go back to the beginning, and choose to live forever. Or you can keep on eating from the daily paradox of good and evil of humans, which will naturally lead on to death. Those who choose the Tree of life cling to these words from the Master of Space and Time: to him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God.And so the heroes of today seek to overcome this wicked world by living righteously, for a kingdom greater than their own lives, in order to go back in time, after all is finished, and see all things being made new.

In 2014, 1 year ago, there was a terrorist attack in Odessa, Texas. No, not quite like the unaired pilot. Mohinder Suresh(Ramamurthy, obsessive and hardworking as ever... oh, and, this man murdered his father) claims responsibility for it. That, and the original concept was introduced with the use of that stupid, long since disproven "we only use 10% of our brain" misunderstanding. The now-called Evos(which sounds far too much like emo...then again, with these isolated, young, "where do I belong" types, maybe it's meant to. In general, conflicts and theme exploration are too on the nose) as a group are then blamed for it. They have to hide, are hated, and actively hunted. Again. There's only so many places to go with this concept, or they didn't have new ideas? You decide! Certainly if it's the latter, they shouldn't have made this. It is now entirely publicly. And everyone knows, in theory, that they exist, like with The X-Men. It comes up surprisingly little. Here's a crazy thought: how about exploring the opposite situation? We've yet to see a society that treats them as well as everyone else, where their powers are perhaps even seen as potential boons, the way certain personality traits are. Instead, this supposed reboot just slightly tweaks the status quo - just to explain why almost no one returns? At least before, they went different places with it. Years passed, and the magic is not recaptured. Some say you should watch the Dark Matters webisodes before this. I would say that your enjoyment of that depends largely on you not going for this... go for one of the two only, and, yeah, that one. There's yet again a huge event that has to be stopped and a bunch of separated people who may be able to stop it. However, this time around...it's just such an uphill battle to get invested. And by the end, you don't feel like it's amounted to much. And then it ends on a cliffhanger that you need to get some ebook for. I haven't and won't get it, so all I can comment on there is that they sure did want more of your dough. Partial credit for writing this review goes to my ex-fiancée.This relies on us caring about all these new characters(a dozen and a half... and that's just the recurring ones) without giving us much reason to do so. Maybe they hoped it would happen on account of the blatantly "similar" ones, without us finding that to be bland. We have a new innocent teen wanting a normal life, scared of their own power. A new Japanese youth using a Katana to accomplish the mission they feel driven to. They merely gender-swapped Hiro. And why yes, she *is* paired with a comic relief(at least almost the only one), and like the rest of the humor, he's annoying and can really wreck the tone. There's too little and late of the old favorites, the reason we wanted more of the franchise at all. The way they're treated is frustrating and disappointing. This includes unneeded recasting! HRG(Coleman, badass, determined) is pretty much the only major player to return, and we're left wanting more. It's not about protecting Claire, he's looking for her(could something really have happened to her? She was always unbelievably accident-prone... if she didn't heal, no way she'd even have made it to double digits, age-wise). And yes, he tries to do what's right... so does almost everyone else in the ensemble cast, he's playing catch-up just as they are, not knowing something we and they don't about what's going on, and it's no longer really morally grey, which was where he was interesting. And with his family gone, who are we to even care about what his misdoings could do to them? He doesn't even have any contacts left! Everything that made him compelling is gone. At least he hilariously Bat-Bales with his voice. No relationships or the like as interesting and that see as much development as the best ones before... not even taking into account how mercifully short this mini is, and thus they had less time to work on that. This has entirely too many young, dark-haired, non-African American men that we're supposed to be able to tell apart - at least Tommy is distinctly a high schooler, not so with the others. The villains are one-note, and have their moments. I'm not going to detail everyone we're following in this, because, well, I try not to fall asleep in the middle of writing reviews.It does still feel like a comic book. And we again get repeat powers, only here, it's from right away. A few are ill-defined, many are forgettable. It feels too futuristic, tech we know we don't have. This completely disconnects it from Heroes, where it was always things we do have, or easily could. Now they can make machines that use and enhance the specific abilities, letting them span the globe, etc. The action varies, and can be good. One portion is partially set inside a VG. This is seriously dumb, and going too far in the geeky direction, to where it doesn't fit and pushes away those who've not drunk the Kool-Aid. The graphics don't look like it's a recent release. Heck, it just doesn't look all that good, considering the budget: few of the FX do. It's incredibly repetitive: oh I wonder if our lead will yet again defeat one enemy after another in spite of being outnumbered and the size difference(which, uh, shouldn't matter). What is this, UltraViolet?This contains a lot of bloody violence, moderate to strong language, and one or two storytelling choices that are distinctly tasteless, bordering on being genuinely ugly. It's probably not an accident that these both come very close to the end. They didn't want to risk it being pulled off the air, before we could witness the depths to which they were willing to sink. 5/10

I will be short on this, because it is very easy to explain. It sucks. But not just in global, it sucks on each every possible level. First of all: The actors. They suck the most. With a couple of exceptions, they all do. Jack Coleman's Noah Bennet is still a good character, and Jack also does a pretty good job. Judith Shekoni's Joanne Collins(the crazy sociopath woman) is basically the best performance int the whole serial. Although, I hated her character.('cause she did a good job ;) ). Pruitt Taylor Vince's character, Casper Abraham was a lovable one, and he did a good job whit it, but everybody else... The others did a horrible job. Okey, to be honest, the characters also has been written very poorly. And there is the second problem: The writing. Because they not only wrote the characters bad, but basically everything else. The whole plot is ridiculous, and I have to mention it again, THE CHARACTERS...Ahhh, okay, next one: The effects. I don't know if they were short on money(but then comes the question: Why are they doing it?), but the effects looks like they reused the ones from the original Heroes FROM MORE THAN 10 YEARS AGO. Except, now they did it in a much worse way. Because did not only sucked what they were using, but mostly how they did it. Nether was the directing good, but it is much easier to tolerate. So this is my "short" opinion on this pile of ____.PS: And yes, I watched the whole season(I hope there wont be second), because when you have a painful zit, what are you doing? Probably trying to get rid of it by doing the worst thing to it, what only makes it more painful, and you end up with a big red mount on your face.