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24 hours of fun fun fun

Advantages: Original and exciting
Disadvantages: series two: Kim

...I say, we were amazed. 24 has all the makings of a superb series and the first season is full of twists and revelations that had me surprised until the very end. Ok, I will get to the point now, 24 is a real time epic which focuses on the life of CTU (Counter Terrorist Unit) agent Jack Bauer in Los Angeles. Each episode focuses on one hour in his very eventful day. We meet characters that we don't know if we can trust them or not, we meet terrorists ...
...Los Angeles within the next 24 hours. Jack finds himself reluctantly being dragged back into the life of a CTU agent. The President of the United States has been informed of the nuclear threat and it is the first time in his term of office he has had to deal with terrorists. Will he survive the day? Will he help Jack in his time of need? Will he do what's necessary to save the city of Angels? In this series we are greeted with old and new characters, ...

mamba17 05.11.2005 · Read full review
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Review of 24 - Series 1-3 - Complete (Box Set) (DVD)

MUST SEE FOR EVERYONE!!

Advantages: Truly Addictive!! Amazing entertainment without leaving the house :) !!!
Disadvantages: Not good if you have other things needing to be done!

...action packed and adrenaline pumping 24 hour ride through a TV drama series ever! Most of which i watched whilst trying to eat - the food usually got left though! (good for anyone on a diet!) Each episode, lasting one hour in real time, focuses on one hour of (Counter Terroist Unit) Agent, Jack Bauers (Kiefer Sutherland) day in which there is a terrorist attack on America. Each season makes up a whole 24 hours in which there are several unexpected ...
...over the most action packed 24 in the history of life and has to be my favourite overall!! SEASON 2: This season takes place 18 months after the first, after Senetor David Palmer has been elected. It begins with Jack, crumbling with emotion being told he is needed to return to CTU, he is the only person trusted by the Senetor who, in the middle of spending a day in the country with his family, has been informed of a potential threat to national ...

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Review of 24 - Series 1-4 - Complete (DVD)

24 Series 1-5

Advantages: Exciting, gripping, unconventional
Disadvantages: Can get a little samey sometimes, Kim Bauer is very annoying!

24 is a series which takes place over 24 hours and each episode covers one hour. There have been five seasons to date and it has been a very successful show both in America and worldwide. Jack Bauer is a federal agent who works for the Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU). He is willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done. Each series of 24 covers a different threat faced by the USA. Jack Bauer and his Counter Terrorist Unit are asked to help handle ...
...Bauer is its supporting cast. The CTU staff all have their own individual characters and quirks and the President of the USA is a very powerful and charasmatic figure. The villains are well drawn in shades of grey and are never charactures. It is a drama that takes itself seriously and doesn't dumb down to its audience. ...

socnsum1 18.10.2006 · Read full review
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Review of 24 - Series 1-5 - Complete (DVD)

"Charlie wants to hurt you Daddy"

Advantages: Good Film, unexpected ending
Disadvantages: none

Hide and Seek turned out to better than i thought it would be. I thought it wasnt going to be any good, as i usually do when i havnt heard of the film, but i always give them a chance. And in this case it worked. Starring.......... Robert De Niro ... David Callaway Dakota Fanning ... Emily Callaway Famke Janssen ... Katherine Elisabeth Shue ... Elizabeth Rated R for frightening sequences and violence. Parents Guide Add content advisory for parents ...
...English Hide and Seek revolves around David Callaway (Robert De Niro) and his daughter Emil Callaway (Dakota Fanning). As David wakes up at 2:30 in the morning, he goes in to the bathroom were he finds his wife in the bath, having taken her own life, Standing at the bathroom door is his daughter Emily. Traumatized by her mothers death Emily becomes a hollow shell, she doesnt want to play or even talk. Her father David decides that it is time for ...

scottishWARRIOR22 07.08.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Hide And Seek (DVD)

Action-packed with some witty dialogue but still flawed somehow

Advantages: Quite thrilling when it gathers pace, seemed an authentic depiction of London, some humour
Disadvantages: Something about Downey Jnrs depiction of Holmes didnt work somehow, not for all ages/the squeamish

...Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novels, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson start out by catching a serial killer who dabbles in the the supernatural, an evil man called Lord Blackwood who is sentenced to death, indeed Watson confirms he's dead after he's hung. Things take a distinctly sinister turn, however, when they discover than Blackwood has apparently risen from the dead and Holmes recalls what he told him before he was hung, which indicated that more ...
...actor (Robert Downey Jnr.) played Sherlock Holmes, while an English actor (Jude Law), played his right hand man, Dr. Watson. Now of course I knew that before I went to see the movie, infact I quite like Robert Downey Jnr. as an actor and I have enjoyed some of his other movies and the fact that he plays the main character was one of the main reasons I wanted to see it in the cinema but there was something about him playing this role that I just didn't ...

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Review of Sherlock Holmes