Comments on: “24: Redemption” Review

By: Bert Stevens

Bert Stevens — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:50:24 +0000

Bring it on!

By: billabong

billabong — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:44:35 +0000

Just tried to watch Redemption in Australia last night. I was a big fan of the earlier seasons, even liked S6.

This, however, was boring as hell. The whole real-time concept did not work since there were no parallel story lines that depended on real time ticking.

I agree with most of the negative things that were said above: 2D characters, bad fire fights, stolen plot lines, reminiscent of 70’s junk, …

Also, had to watch in on free TV – could not believe the length of the commercials. I doubt I’ll ever watch it, but if I do it will be on DVD.

By: henry

henry — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:06:33 +0000

Okay, Jack seemed unbelievable: first, he’s too damn old to be convincing in the action sequences that remind me more of a 3rd rate sitcom a la Chuck Norris. Climbing into trees and pouncing on guys; starting a compound fire fight with a 38 cal. and several sticks of TNT (all perfectly lobbed to kill 1 or more guys); a contrived and silly torture scene; etc… Oh, he also thwarted the terrorist plot in this “real time” series of events…yea, okay. Furthermore, every character with the one exception of his friend was a complete cartoon character.

Maybe I just don’t understand what 24 is all about, kind of like understanding what a Phish concert is all about…I like the concept of 24, but this just failed to deliver in a gigantic way. I remember the cop show, “The Shield”, probably the type of TV dram that a 24 demographic would appreciate. The shield – at least the 5 or so episodes I tuned in to- was far and away better on so many levels.

24 would seem to be terribly overrated. Of course, I’ll probably rent the DVD for some of the earlier years to see what maybe some of the justified hype was about.

By: Lau

Lau — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:53:29 +0000

I liked it. I never expected an Oscar-worthy movie, everyone who complains and pretends to have expected otherwise is either a hypocrite or simply doesn’t even know what 24 is all about and expected something totally different. Well, that’s too bad!
I say “welcome back, Jack!”

By: John Mayer

John Mayer — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:18:22 +0000

I’ve only watched most of one season of 24 – can’t make that kind of commitment – but I thought this movie was very good, especially considering the crap being offered on most of broadcast TV. The child soldier thing’s already been done? Yeah, over and over, all over Africa, unfortunately.

I give it a thumbs up and liked it well enough to at least attempt to watch the show this season.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:59:46 +0000

It was very entertaining and that’s what 24 is about. People are expecting wayyy too much. I dug it. Although I will admit that Keifer signing on for 3(!) more seasons is crazy. Are they going to drag this show on forever? Look at season six!! So formulaic. I am stoked on the new season, though, as they have had alot of time to come up with new material.

By: Philip Dhingra

Philip Dhingra — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:02:18 +0000

Okay, I’m hooked now. The real question is, should I wait till all the episodes are aired and marathon it one weekend, or should I watch them week-by-week?

By: femifunky

femifunky — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:09:25 +0000

Just watched it and couldn’t catch a message from it. lets all wait for the season 7 by Jan, and see what Jack has to offer the entire world. JACK U NEED TO IMPRESS YJE VIEWERS IN SEASON 7 COS WE CANT FIGURE OUT THE MESSAGE IN RESEMPTION.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:46:44 +0000

This promised us a 24 movie and all we got was an advanced two hour premiere for season seven. I call shenangins on the whole venture. Shame on you Jack!

By: Jordan

Jordan — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:08:59 +0000

Its. A. TV. Show.

If you want sweet internationalist love, go watch the West Wing on DVD. If you want American-centric action and melodramatic intrigue, watch 24.

I watch it for just Jack. His character arc, despite the bad season plots, has been fantastic.

By: getalife

getalife — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:49:24 +0000

Man,
You are all missin’ the big picture here. I finally watch an episode of the show everybody talks about. “24.” Seems it takes place in Africa, too. A place I have spent A LOT of time in. What a pathetic waste of time.
What I couldn’t believe was how the whole thing was lifted (NO, MAKE THAT STOLEN) from two distinct sources.
1. “Blood Diamond.” The scene where the menacing para military leader is indoctrinating the boy soldiers is practically stolen word for word from a similar scene in “Diamond.”
2. The above mentioned scumbag uses the word “cockroach” through the same speech, the unflattering term used by Hutus when they decimated the Tutsis in Rwanda back in 1994.
Thus, the entire theme that the ridiculous show was based on was not even original.
How much do these writers get paid for this tripe???