I love this movie so much

The Worst Film Ever

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

I'm re-watching this in 2018, and I like it even better the second time around. Be warned, this is not a binge-able serial; at least not at the beginning: it's standalone episodes plus an arc with plenty of repetition and reminders. The second episode concerns raising the dead, and thereby throws the pure fantasy premise to the wind, positively setting the comic book/action/superhero tone. Consequently much silliness can be forgiven: their headquarters is in an abandoned subway station, and one of the crack Fed team is a retired subway Engineer. What? I do though love Riley's wall of computers and terminals, this being the first time I'd seen anything like that in 2007. The personal drama is kept to a minimum; the plot of the episodes is driven by the premise of the weeks's case. The wrap-up in the last few episodes seems hurried, as if the writers planned another season initially. It does get easier to binge as the arc picks up,I even see why it got cancelled, It wasn't exactly ahead of is time. I suspect that many folks in 2007 were beginning to expect more drama, more serial. I love that trend myself, but so what? This is old school TV set in the 90s future. Everyone has cellphones; people on the street have cameras in their cellphones, but the team members, who are in nearly constant touch with access to impossible technology, don't actually carry cameras, just flip phones. Flip phones were cool. I actually find it refreshing, that there's no talk of the Iraq War and no military presence, unlike say the move Painkiller Jane. This is not historical fiction, but rather timeless fun.With all those caveats, as far as comic book/action/superhero shows go, this is the best! Kristanna Loken is a big, strong, very tall and beautiful woman, perfectly cast as a hard-as-nails DEA agent-PLUS. She kicks ass in the fight scenes (when she's not getting shot - she does get shot a lot). All the babes in fact look like they work out, even the bimbos. The score by John Sereda is superlative and sets the mood very well. Fights, guns, beautiful women, intense score, crazy sci-fi premises: love it!

I won't go into plot and story details. Others are more capable. I'll just give you my opinions as a life long Si-Fi fan. I sat through the first two episodes with mixed feelings. I thought it contained some interesting ideas, but I thought the writing, plots and especially the dialog were like a bad low budget action movie. I thought maybe I'll come back to it some time when I'm really bored.Well, there came an evening when I was ill and confined to bed so I decided to watch the next couple of episodes. It improved a bit, and the storyline started pulling me in. It seemed to get better with every episode, the characters began to grow on me and the show was genuinely entertaining.I never read the comic series or saw the made for TV movie, so I can't make any comparisons, but this is way better than my first impressions led me to believe. The directing, scripts, acting etc. are all quite good once everything gets rolling, and to me, worth the wait. The cast all fit their parts.I really came to enjoy Painkiller Jane and I'm sorry it wasn't picked up for a second season.

In fairness, I didn't get beyond the fourth episode before my brain went into a self-induced coma to protect itself. The show may have subsequently improved, but I am simply not bored enough to find out.I don't really want to single out actors as a reason why this show exerts such cosmic suction, mostly because the technical department are more to blame than they are. Also actors are typically following direction and working from scripts.Which brings me to my next point. I really wish that this type of show would be called "Has the same name as a comic book" rather than "Based on a comic book." It might get far less negative reviews if it attempted to gain its own audience rather than grabbing for a ready-made audience who are only going to shoot it down if it isn't instantly brilliant.

Sci-Fi Channel does it again They make another GOD AWFUL showThe movie Painkiller Jane made back in 1995 was a fair show to watch and when I saw the previews for this new show I thought they were expanding on that original idea. I couldn't have been more wrong, this show has NOTHING to do with the movie. It is just another in the current line of awful brain dead sci-fi TV shows that have been cranked out recently. Even the long running Stargate SG1 has been totally ruined by the Sci-fi channels ineptitude. The problem is that TV execs believe Sci-fi fans are to stupid to notice how bad these shows are, in the past they would make a series to capitalize on the success of the Sci-fi movie, they never lasted more then a season and were usually bad but they were far better then this piece of.. I wish they would have taken this show, or any of they're shows, and made something worth watching. Kristannaa Loken must have lost a bet to sign on for this, but then again she did make Blood Rayne