Prison Break - Series 1 - Part 1 DVD > Reviews > prison break

Author's product rating:   

Did you enjoy it?	Loved it
Story	Outstanding
Characters / Performances	Outstanding
Special Effects	Outstanding
How does it compare to similar films?	Outstanding

Advantages:	The best prison series i have seen yet
Disadvantages:	none

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

I was at my mams last saturday and i saw that my brother had bopught prison break -season one-part one on dvd.When reading the back i thought this sounds very good.I got home sorted out the children and settled down to watch it.

Its about two brothers micheal schofield(wentworth miller) and lincoln burrows( dominic purcell).Lincoln gets framed for murdering the presidents brother and gts sent to prison on death row.His brother micheal stages a robbery so he will get sent to the same prison so he can try and get his brother out.He has the plans of the prisons blue prints tatooed onto his body and he has to race against time to try and get his brother free before he is executed.He comes across some enemys and some loyal inmates as he puts his plan into action.
This boxset comes in a cardboard sleeve with prison break in red letters across the front.It has got four discs inside.

DISC ONE -EPISODE 1-4

PILOT
structual engineer micheal schofield purposely has himself incarcerated in order to orchestrate the escape of his brother lincoln,whom he believes has been wrongly sentenced to death.

ALLEN
setting his plan in motion,micheal seeks the aid of his fellow inmates,but makes some deadly enemies along the way.

CELL TEST
micheals plan to test sucres loyalty backfires when sucre requests a cell transfer, and abruzzi joins in micheals plan to escape.

CUTE POISON
micheal fears that his psychotic new cellmate will expose his plan,while veronica enlists the aid of another attorney as she uncovers new evidence in lincolns case.

DISC TWO--EPISODES 5-7

ENGLISH,FITZ OR PERCY
kellerman and hale blackmail warden pope into moving micheal to another prison,and micheal must think quickly in order to avoid the transfer.

RIOTS,DRILLS AND THE DEVIL(PART ONE)
with the escape plan falling dangerously far behind,micheal sparks a full scale riot by sabotaging the prisons air conditioning system,and veronica,growing suspicios of nick,rejects his help with lincolns case.

RIOTS,DRILLS AND THE DEVIL(PART TWO)
as the rioting rages on , micheal must rescue sara from the other inmates,while abruzzi and sucre team up to help expedite the break out.

DISC THREE -EPISODES 8-11

THE OLD HEAD
to his great dismay ,micheal discovers that an old storage shed,crucial to his plan,has been converted into a break room for the guards ,while outside the prison,veronica,nick and lj find there lives in danger.

TWEENER
fearing for the life of his son,lincolns desire to escape becomes more desperate than ever,and micheal faces a tough decision as the vile t_bag continues to sexually prey on young inmates.

SLEIGHT OF HAND
micheal is forced to reveal the location of fibonacci,an innocent man whom the mob wants dead,in order to keep the break out plan on track,and kellerman and hale recieve some unwanted help in their pursuit of lj.

AND THEN THEY WERE SEVEN
everyone,especially sara,is shocked when micheals wife arrives for a conjugal visit,bringing with her an important key to the escape plan.

DISC FOUR-EPISODES 12-13

ODD MAN OUT
as the escape draws near,the group,needing to reduce its number by one,targets t-bag,but hes got other ideas.Meanwhile ,veronica,nick and lj continue running for their lives.

END OF THE TUNNEL
just hours before lincolns execution,the team makes their desperate and daring break for it,while outside,the frustrated conspirators turn against themselves.

This was the best prison series that i have ever seen and it leaves you on the edge of your seat all the way through.The storylines and the charactors are fantastic i cannot wait till part two comes out.This box set only cost £25 which i thought was a bargian.