InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

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

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

dertwonshuw-51350 Sydney Bristow. The Girl Next Door. A smile as wide as the sky and dimples deep enough to get lost in. All the boys love her. (Vaughn, Tippin, even Sark.)The acting in the series is very well done: Garner, Garber, Rifkin, Cooper. The writing is just okay. the Rambaldi mystery/prophecy is a distraction, but it facilitates the intrigue and the action. And the action is good! The contemporary soundtrack is also a huge plus.A couple of years ago I watched half of the first season and then stopped. I got tired of the constant flashbacks to Sydney's fiancé and the continual jeopardy of her friends Will and Francie. I picked the series up again recently and watched the end of Season 1 and all of Season 2.But the series (in my opinion) jumped the shark in Season 3. After the cliff hanger at the end of Season 2, Season 3 started with a totally preposterous and unbelievable story line.

toreaaboe The whole show feels like a B-series all the way.The plot: Firstly, the backstory is just silly. Sydney is working for a spy organization that is an enemy of USA inside USA. They have a office, research lab and many spies and other personal working from a office building in plain sight. USA government knows about this and allow it to operate. This is just insane, that would never happened. They would be violently shut down the moment they knew about it. But instead they send in undercover agents.The actions in the episodes: It is so simple and unrealistic. They just walk into secret buildings, guards just disappear into thin air, and they have access to all kind of high profile events like government officials would, and they act like they was CIA. All is so unrealistic that it is a slap in the face of any thinking person alive. We don't see any use of intelligence and creative thinking, its just blunt action packed into a really bad setting.Shallow and uninteresting characters: As the rest of the series the characters feel empty and shallow. One thing I like to look for in TV-series/movies, is the atmosphere and tension between characters, the development of the relationships, and the depth of characters that allow you as a watcher to connect with the characters. But in this TV show this part feel non existent, the characters is too simple and shallow to build any tensions, atmosphere or connection.How the episodes progress: This TV show jump very quickly from scene to scene and take large jumps between the scenes. Usually Sydney usually visit 2-3 locations worldwide in each episode and its all just fast action and little story. There is little time left for charterer building or celebration of victories, its just continues action.What is good?: Pretty girl that do martial arts.Summary: The whole show feel very simple and shallow, like it was written in very short time without much thought. The continues action and little focus on character development, relationship building and creating an interesting story makes the show feel empty, simple and boring.

Roedy Green This high budget TV show. It uses lush, dramatic, international sets.The plot has layers upon layers. It is like the old Saturday afternoon serials, ending each episode with a cliff hanger. I think this show is primarily the work of women. Our heroine, Jennifer Garner as Sydney Bristow, dresses in elaborate high-fashion costumes, makeup and hair barely recognisable each time. There are plenty of handsome charming young men who adore her. The focus is on relationships.Jennifer Garner runs for miles at top speed in every episode. The stunts are well done. It appears Garner is doing them herself. It is quite an athletic performance.Garner speaks a number of languages in each episode (without subtitles). I don't speak these languages, but her accent was very convincing.They did a number of technical things that made me angry they were so inept. Sydney moves back and forth between two groups of warring spy agencies without taking any precautions that she is being followed or that her phone is tapped. She dismantles a nuke and holds up a grey sphere which she proclaimed is the plutonium core. Plutonium is radioactive, and as soon as it is formed into a sphere it explodes. Oddly road flares go off in a bank vault.She is a double agent, but at times does some bit of daring for both simultaneously. The plot often does not make sense, which amusingly one of the characters points out.

SnoopyStyle College student Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) is working for SD-6, a secret division within the CIA. Arvin Sloane (Ron Rifkin) is the head and Marcus Dixon (Carl Lumbly) is her partner. Her friends Will Tippin (Bradley Cooper) and Francie Calfo are clueless to her double life. Then it's revealed that SD-6 is a vast criminal conspiracy opposed to the CIA. She gets Michael Vaughn (Michael Vartan) as her CIA handler. Her estranged father Jack Bristow (Victor Garber) is also a double agent inside to bring down SD-6.This is JJ Abrams' second big hit after Felicity and launches him on his way to being one of the biggest name in Hollywood. It's a simple concept of a hot supermodel 007 Jenny Bond in a secret worldwide spy organization. It's completely unreal fantasy. There is nothing but popcorn fun here. The problem is that as this fantasy universe gets rolling. It made less and less sense. The twists and turns lead to too many blind alleys. It's too serious and eventually, the show collapses under the weight of it's convoluted story. The good thing is that it introduced the world to Jennifer Garner and Bradley Cooper. Now can somebody tell me what happened to Michael Vartan?