JinRoz For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

BallWubba Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

Loui Blair It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Bene Cumb I tend to like intelligence/conspiracy movies and series, and I do not find that such works should be full of chases, explosions, assassins, and the like, but I would like to see unpredictable events, focusing on private life only if it provides additional value to the course of main activities, and references to the guilty ones as late as possible. Emanating from above, I can't say I am too satisfied with the general frame of the plot, a lot became evident too soon; the only real set of surprise applies to Will's next-door neighbor Andy. And the ending - too odd and vague, perhaps meant for possible sequel.Apparently, there were many British paragons, but the US accomplishment left somewhat to be desired. Thus, the series could have shorter, perhaps even by half. As for the cast, James Badge Dale as Will Travers is slightly arid to me, although I can imagine that mastermind analysts are not too colorful persons... The most distinctive for me were Arliss Howard as Kale Ingram and Michael Cristofer as Truxton Spangler; female characters were not defined in this series, although I have always liked Miranda Richardson.Well, I prefer e.g. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, House of Cards.

DantE HickS this show won't get renewed so i keep it short.this could have been so much but it failed short on the action, so it felt short on the ratings ...imagine three days of the condor without any deaths... are you done? OK, so this is rubicon. watch it, if you like to think about what is going on and don't if you need someone to tell you what is going on. it is that easy. this is what three days of a condor was past watergate bur for the 9/11 generation. maybe it was to close to the truth, maybe the ratings were to bad, we will never know. only watch it if you don't need an ending, else re watch three days of the condor.

TombRaider09 "Rubicon" is by no means a regular television series. It's quite different from anything else on the small screen right now. But is the different in this case of the good kind? The promise of the pilot episode is that it is not, but taking into account the fanfare the short-lived series has received, a negative review of "Rubicon" will no doubt be met with hostility.It's the AMC cable channel's first new show of the 2010's. Clearly more of an experiment than an actual story, the pilot episode sets something or another in motion, but it isn't clear what. Someone dies, someone shoots himself or maybe they didn't.What we do know is that nobody in this world likes bright colors, as the series makes a depressing use of greyness. The characters are just as bleak and were they real people, they'd be medicated by now.In the pilot episode not much happens, not anything that makes sense anyway. For sure, these things will be explained in time, but there is no mystery or scene in the entire pilot that would function as a hook, to pull in the audience. Clearly, something must have worked for those who absolutely love this series, but just like those codes the agents try to crack in the story, the code of the pilot must be so well-hidden it will take a very unique personality to catch it.Whether the pilot will reveal itself to be something unique or just something extraordinarily boring will be a matter of very divided tastes, but there is no denying that the depressing mood of the series will be only for a limited audience.

Mark Riner I went into this show feeling like I must be its core audience. I was engaged with The Cryptonomicon, and my love for math and the eccentric has made me feel like cryptography is some beautiful land that I haven't achieved.I've had many occasions where my patience has been rewarded, and when every friend I have has left the room to seek out something more exciting, I sit alone, taking in the whole of the movie, and feeling a real emotion for it.That said, having watched the full season of Rubicon, I'm disappointed. It feels more like watching a cluster of conspiracy fear mongers running the show, and the illustrations of the characters as so 2-dimensional may be what drives me away. They may seem like real people, but I prefer to hope that people in our daily lives aren't that simple.The scenery is amazing, and the underlying plot is fantastic, with the show filled with nuances. But when a subtlety appears, the writers feel a need to smash the viewer over the head instead of letting them figure things out, because the viewer isn't expected to keep mental pace with the characters, and instead let all the work be done for them.The acting is atrocious, many of the cast fail to exhibit emotion, and the script feels weak.