BlazeLime
Strong and Moving!
Senteur
As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.
Allison Davies
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
LML
This TV series is one of the best an original shows ever done for television. I can even say that the actual series like CSI, CSI Miami, CSI Ney York, and other like that, were born from this one.Great storytelling, great performances, lots of suspense, mystery... What more can we want from this type of TV series? For me is for sure, 10 stars in 10 stars!!! Who hasn't seen it yet, do yourselves a favor and go rent it, buy the DVDs, watch re-runs on television, whatever you need and can, to see all the four seasons (83 episodes, beginning September 21st, 1996 and ending Jully 1st, 2000).Have great fun!
timidfreda
I only recently discovered this amazing TV show and I started watching because I realized that Robert Davi was a featured player. Profiler was a great show. Intense, smart and entertaining. But the best thing about it is Robert Davi. Yes, I know. He's not the quintessential leading man. Like Bogart or Bronson, he's no pretty boy and he's not a kid. But he does have a certain dangerous sexiness. That, tempered with that hint of tenderness and vulnerability made his love scenes truly breathtaking. I do wish the "powers that be" would give him a chance to show his stuff. He'd shine in a film along the lines of Casablanca. Just give us more of Davi. This light has been under a bushel for long enough.
ainoarwen
Although being a long time avid tv series viewer, I can safely guarantee that I'll never watch a tv show so brilliant as Profiler, especially in its first two seasons. By the time the end credits of "Ring Of Fire" (the second episode of the series ever) were rolling, I knew I was hooked big time. The stories were riveting and scary, the characters intriguing and the whole atmosphere of the series just captivating in its uniqueness.Now, the reason I said the first two seasons in particular are the best television output ever, is because after them the series changed dramatically. And in my opinion, for the definite worse. The concept of the series was totally ruined by the new producers who were not capable of retaining the series' story standards set by the original production team, headed by Kim Moses and Ian Sander. However, I still continued to watch, because I cared deeply for the main character Sam Waters and the other characters as well.But then, the Profiler world was shattered when it became official that the lead of the series (Sam Waters / Ally Walker) was going to leave. I believe the character of Sam Waters is one of the most positive, inspirational and original female tv characters ever. To see her being replaced by such an offensive, gross stereotype such as the Rachel Burke character was is still something I haven't gotten over.My advice to anyone who wants to appreciate the real Profiler is to watch the seasons in which Ally Walker stars, and it goes without saying that the first two are the gems of the series. Sam Waters will always be missed.
A-Ron-2
Rarely do I actually have anything bad to say about a TV show (as I only rarely watch them), but this show has got to be among the worst things produced in a long time. I started watching it because I had nothing better to do on Saturday Nights (as I had a girfriend and she worked that night), so I thought I would give it a shot.Now I must preface what I am about to say by asserting that I am NOT some Christian fundamentalist or cultural reactionary. I like slasher films, I like serial killer movies. I have read books on many serial killers and find them intriguing... with that said, I must point out that I think that Profiler glorifies serial killers. The show has a tendency to substitute the idea of profiling a killer for explaining his actions. I know that deep down inside we all want to know that serial killers are not random and that they can be understood, but they can't, and this show pushes that too far.The show either sympathizes with the killer by giving him "reasons" for what he does (like the one with the shrewish mother) which tend to be overly simplified, or it glorifies them by making almost every serial killer out to be some deranged genius. Again, I normally would never say any of this stuff, because these arguments are typically used to censor films. But in the case of this show I simply can't understand it any other way. Also, the acting and stories are pretty bad (hence, I have officially stopped watching it).
