Too much fictionAugust 25, 2010 Fernando Rosario de Jesús It was interesting but Jack Bauer looks like a Jedi and not like a human counterterrorism agent.
"24" Season SevenAugust 3, 2010 James C. Henrickson It's been a month since I ordered this and I have still not received it. I have not had a response from the vendor either.
One Of 24's Best SeasonsJuly 30, 2010 Lone Wolf(Michigan) I recently bought the S7 dvd set & let me tell you, this show is like eating your fav candy. Once you start it's damn near impossible to stop! Lately i'm averaging 4-8 episodes per day & i'm happy to report that these episodes are just as addictive & suspenseful as they were when it first aired on FOX. As usual, each show is jam packed with action & suspense & the tension also harldly ever lets up. Great stuntwork & explosions abound as well. But one of best things about this show are all the great character actors they always seem to bring in for each season. Kurtwood Smith (Robocop) as Senator Blaine Mayer, Jon Voight (Deliverance) as the corrupt leader of a Blackwater-like mercenaries for hire outfit, Bob Gunton (Shawshank Redemption) as the White House Chief of Staff, Colm Feore (The Sum of All Fears) as the First man, Will Patton (Armageddon) as the head conspirator, Glenn Morshower (Blackhawk Down) reprising his role as Secret service agent - Aaron Pierce & Janeane Garofalo (Copland) as a nosy & suspicious FBI computer expert. Carlos Bernard also reprises his role as former CTU Agent turned fugitive Tony Almeida & Elisha Cuthbert returns as well as Jack's estranged daughter - Kim. The best new character in S7 though is the FBI agent Renee Walker played by lovely actress - Anne Wersching. She accompanies Jack Bauer through most of the series & quickly learns that in order to assist Jack in saving the day, she will sometimes have to bend the rules & do things that go against her own moral beliefs. This makes her very uneasy & frequently gets her in trouble with her boss - The "By the book" FBI Head Agent - Larry Moss (Jeffrey Nordling) who resents Jack for breaking law after law & torturing suspects. The tension between the three characters is very palpable & really helps add to the suspense & drama of the show. Add in a great story with frequent plot twists, lots of great action, terrific characters & more suspense than you can shake a stick at & you've got one of the most captivating seasons in the entire franchise. I'd personally rank S7 as one of the top 3 best in the series & a must watch for anyone who's fan of 24 or great action thrillers with good character development.
24 ruined by its own formatJuly 23, 2010 George Robinson(Sherwood Forest, England) 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Here we go again... ludicrous storylines, idiotic twists, irritating characters, lots of gunfire and armed SWAT teams storming buildings and the villian they're after slipping out quietly through a side door... everything that wound you up in the first six series is back again for season 7, with knobs on.
What really strangles most of the 24 seasons at birth, though, is the format that made it famous... that it all happens in 'real' time, over the course of a single day. This isn't a real problem when this single day is stretched over 24 episodes, shown one a week on TV, for 5 or 6 months. But on DVD, when most of us watch two or three episodes a night during the course of a week or so, the preposterous succession of cataclysmic events, of the kind that most of us would be unlucky to witness in a lifetime, one after the other, reduces everything to the level of total and unbelievable farce.
In this season, for example, we have the White House attacked and bombs going off inside the building, loads of people gunned down, and rooms and walls and furniture etc destroyed or sprayed with bullets... and yet, barely two hours later, there is no evidence of this whatsoever, and life goes on in a pristine, undamaged White House as if nothing has happened at all!
One of the bonus features on Disc 6 shows the writers discussing the various problems of tailoring stories to the strait jacket of the 24 hour 'real time'format, with one guy saying they did consider having a 'time gap' between each event, like fast forwarding to three weeks later, for example. Sadly, this was dismissed as it might upset the 24 'purist' fans. To me this was a big mistake and might have freed them up to deliver more credible storylines with a bit more character development, for example.
Still, all this is moot now, as I gather Season 8 has just ended and it was the last they're doing. Daft as 24 was, you can't deny it was entertaining and had some money spent on it, and Jack Bauer is a great character... that's why I can grudgingly give Season 7 one star. It loses the other 4 for bringing back really annoying bit part characters from earlier seasons for no reason whatsoever, and for all the other reasons mentioned above.
I don't know if Jack Bauer survives at the end of Season 8, but if he does, there'd be nothing wrong with perhaps two or three feature films based on his character... WITHOUTtrying to cram it all into one totally unrealistic and idiotic 24 hour period. It couldn't be any worse than a lot of the other hideous 'reboot' rubbish spewing out of Hollywood, that's for sure.
24 is always great!July 2, 2010 reen 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Keifer is great as usual! All of the 24 series has been great. the story line in this one was a bit more lacking than the previous seasons, but still action packed and still a good show!
