Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

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

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Steve Easton So in this age of reality TV, someone thought it'd be a good idea to cross Dragon's Den with American Idol.Dragon's Den is a British TV programme where business men and women pitch their ideas to a panel of multi-millionaires in the hope of getting investment/help. Their advice is constructive (if often rude), and the program is mainly about the ideas themselves and why they will/won't work.American Inventor is more about the people pitching the ideas than the ideas themselves. The point seems to be to show just how stupid many of the applicants are, and to publicly humiliate them. Those who are successful are shown weeping and hugging each other. It's all enough to make me vomit.

elshikh4 The reality TV ! Hmmmm. After trash like (Big Brother – 2000), then a hit of the age of cheating, manipulating and materialism (Survivor - 2000), to a bigger hit (American Idol – 2002) where the search for a singer is continuous (like we don't have enough !), I felt all the optimism in the world when I heard about (The American Inventor).It's not about how to be a dancer (So You Think You Can Dance), a cook (Hell's Kitchen), a businessman (The Apprentice), a barber (Shear Genius), or a thin (The Biggest Loser) ! It's FINALLY about the brain, the scientific creativity, and the way to produce what's globally important and humanly needed on a big scale.But oh dear, I was wrong ! According to the lousy, dreadfully idiot, first season, the optimistic feeling turned into frustration. Look at the shown inventions, some of them were seriously required to go ahead than others, but dumbly the honorable judges refused. To prefer trivial stuff over simply great ones, like for instance the manual snowplow, is absolutely provocative.And let's save the worst for last. The genius bicycle with a seat in the front.. HA HAA HAAAAA ! That's the winner ?? How for god's sakes ?! And among really brilliant, more useful, inventions ?! I don't know the deal here, but to see such a great innovations fall easily and without logical reasons while other fatuous "thing" hit the million lastly (?!) is not disappointing inasmuch as a disappointment out of the whole program itself.I remember seeing in my country, years before the show, a bicycle as the same "creative" as the one which has won eventually, does that make its miserable maker The American Inventor ?! Actually, despite some kind of fair end that tried to award some of the real meritorious brains, this was nothing but a TV, a thrilling TV work, without the value that I yearned for long.

Gihad Galal Idea is great, spoiled big time by the judges.Why make fun of people? if what the inventors say is true, and as most of them say, they spent their life saving on the invention, the minimum is to reject the idea without making fun out of the people.also, it shows when they want to accept an idea by the crier that they added to the judges.The only one i respect out of the judges is the one who always sits on the right of the table, he is a respectable personof course the English snob who claims to be a business man, wearing a suite doesn't make you one pallast but not least, the big guy who sits between the English and the crier. wake up man, the is no job called and inventor for you to call yourself one. an inventor is an attribute not a job man.i think they wanted to add someone like Simon from the American idol, they thought it worked there, it can work here as well. the context is different and the idea is totally different.it is a good idea and they could have done a good show out of it if they just change the judges and remove their act and attitude.just stop making fun of the people.

hewerr The concept is excellent. The execution typifies the overall quality of the ABC network.Apart from Peter Jones it appears that the rest of the panel consist of marketing execs. rather than real entrepreneurs.When I realised that Peter Jones was getting together with Simon Cowell my initial thoughts were wow he's gonna take America by the balls. But it appears that ABC have come along and destroyed the concept.I was an absolute addict of the Dragons Den in the U.K. and was interested to see that Peter Jones had manipulated the concept that originated in Japan and developed his own show for the States. The result is neither inspiring nor informative.If you lack drama in your life you have a choice now… Jerry Springer or the American Inventor To sum it up: a struggling musician selling out to a media mogul.Idea: get me! And I'll produce a show worthy of the title