The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

First off are the three leads, Sisto, Roach and Hutton. They are all okay actors but they are best off playing more cerebral types. But here they have Sisto cast as some empathetic, caring, but psychopathic, blood thirsty but genius sort of freelance super heavy detective who specializes in helping out kidnap victims & their rich families for a large fee, payable only on success. He did a good job playing crazy, with a touch of menace, & weird on Six Feet Under, but I can't take him seriously as a cross between Woody Allen, Monk and Dirty Harry. The plot is so far fetched and is full of mindless action and violence. Obviously they were inspired by 24, but that show at least had national security and mass destruction as a plot element, not scum trying to leach or rip off a rich NYC guy. The country and globe hopping aspect of it didn't help at all either, it gave it no extra class or variety. Even Timothy Hutton, who plays the patriarch Kane of the kidnapped kid went rogue when he went from being hard pressed rich guy dad to some scion of an Irish mobster from Queens. Then he gets all medieval himself. That is so out of character. Delroy Lindo reminds me of some extinct dinosaur or dodo bird as the head FBI guy who psycho Sisto locks horns and then cooperates with in in the classic film noir love hate relation meme between the private dick and the city gumshoes. There is nothing new here, just a lot of the same old. Even lame old Ray Donovan had more character and moxie than this NBC network stinker. Here are some examples of all around lameness in plot and writing. Sisto does the usual macho BS shtick of walking into the home bar of the aforementioned Irish gang and starts twisting the arm of one of the members for information, but no one helps the guy out. Maybe Bruce Willis or Chuck Norris can get away with that in one of their macho actioneers, but not here. Or this super sophisticated, well financed group of mystery kidnappers stashes the kidnapped kid in some tenement neighborhood in some crummy Mexican village, where everyone there seems to see how out of place the group & kid are. You'd think they would have found some walled-in isolated villa in the country side to stash their victim, not some place where he keeps almost escaping and even the local constable knows about them.I was so glad they pulled the plug on this load of lameness before one season was up. It is just too bad they didn't smother it at birth.

I loved everything about this series... the acting and characters were spot on, the story development made me want to watch each episode in concession (the joys of having it on DVD) I could only imagine having to watch this week to week...I would have been counting down to the next one!No clue why this series was ended, it was a brilliantly done TV show that should have continued! The characters were very well developed throughout and I found myself immersed in both the story and the individual characters.Have passed this box set to friends and family with a similar response! What is wrong with networks these days? The amount of crap produced and this slips through the cracks.....would have loved to see more!!

Talk about an unoriginal concept. Basically, this series mixes the plot of "Ransom" with Mel Gibson, and the plot of "Man on Fire" with Denzel Washington and come up with a concept in which every other scene reminds you of one of the two.Certain scenes, characters and plot lines are literally the same. And because of it, the series becomes very predictable. If you haven't seen the films in question, you might get some enjoyment out of this. However, you would be much better of just watching the movies.It wasn't a surprise to see it cancelled, quite frankly, I'm surprised they even got away with it in the first place. Series based on movies are almost always disappointing, and it this case even more so because they don't even seem to acknowledge the original material from which they "borrowed"

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