Good movie but grossly overrated

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I tend to like intelligence/conspiracy movies and series, and I do not find that such works should be full of chases, explosions, assassins, and the like, but I would like to see unpredictable events, focusing on private life only if it provides additional value to the course of main activities, and references to the guilty ones as late as possible. Emanating from above, I can't say I am too satisfied with the general frame of the plot, a lot became evident too soon; the only real set of surprise applies to Will's next-door neighbor Andy. And the ending - too odd and vague, perhaps meant for possible sequel.Apparently, there were many British paragons, but the US accomplishment left somewhat to be desired. Thus, the series could have shorter, perhaps even by half. As for the cast, James Badge Dale as Will Travers is slightly arid to me, although I can imagine that mastermind analysts are not too colorful persons... The most distinctive for me were Arliss Howard as Kale Ingram and Michael Cristofer as Truxton Spangler; female characters were not defined in this series, although I have always liked Miranda Richardson.Well, I prefer e.g. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, House of Cards.

This show is like 'The Mentalist'. You have an emotionally scarred, extremely intelligent man, who has something that most TV characters don't: Maturity.James Badge Dale is perfect for the role, his 'poker face' shows the kind of raw and painful courage that required for suffering through a tragedy like he suffered.The maturity I talked about can be applied to the entire show. They are brutally straight forward about the story. This is how people act and react in the real world. Everyone has problems, but they keep up a brave face.The atmosphere of the show is well thought out. The entire Rubicon universe is plain and straightforward. No fancy, glittery anything. This is how it is in the real world.Even though it was cancelled after the first season, it doesn't matter. The show, like 'Awake', begs to be seen. I guarantee you, unless you're really NOT into the themes, you WILL come away thinking about every episode long after you've seen it.

Either it is some curse or whatever, but the best of the shows on TV don't live long. There are many great TV shows alive, many died long time ago, but rarely some of them live for more than a a season or two, except some of them even 4 or 6 or 9. I say 4 season per show is OK, 5 even more beautiful, 6 magnificent, but some of them that deserves more of it regarding applause from audience ends after first. Why? Then I made a short survey, and of course it is because of some profit from number of viewers. But then is that really true?Let's put aside that. Rubicon is one of the unique TV shows with its theme. The quality in complete is not questionable, and it reminds me on movie like it is "3 Days of Condor" for example. The other day I watched "Page Eight" and it reminds me on this show. But that is my impression. Even this show had no explosive plot, its slow yet clever plot put as inside the story in fine way. And it is a great mysterious thriller. I liked how authors of the show presents us that behind the scene life, and how they developed tension. Any when it came to its crescendo they cancel it.It is really a pity, and it takes some time to put my anger aside. Well that is life and that is production companies politic. As Rubicon breath more as a movie than TV show I put it in my film library as one great long running movie.

"Rubicon" is by no means a regular television series. It's quite different from anything else on the small screen right now. But is the different in this case of the good kind? The promise of the pilot episode is that it is not, but taking into account the fanfare the short-lived series has received, a negative review of "Rubicon" will no doubt be met with hostility.It's the AMC cable channel's first new show of the 2010's. Clearly more of an experiment than an actual story, the pilot episode sets something or another in motion, but it isn't clear what. Someone dies, someone shoots himself or maybe they didn't.What we do know is that nobody in this world likes bright colors, as the series makes a depressing use of greyness. The characters are just as bleak and were they real people, they'd be medicated by now.In the pilot episode not much happens, not anything that makes sense anyway. For sure, these things will be explained in time, but there is no mystery or scene in the entire pilot that would function as a hook, to pull in the audience. Clearly, something must have worked for those who absolutely love this series, but just like those codes the agents try to crack in the story, the code of the pilot must be so well-hidden it will take a very unique personality to catch it.Whether the pilot will reveal itself to be something unique or just something extraordinarily boring will be a matter of very divided tastes, but there is no denying that the depressing mood of the series will be only for a limited audience.