Clevercell Very disappointing...

Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

navyjeffj I am about 1/2 way through the 3rd season and found the following about this series:Pros: - 4400 subplots available...no shortage of rabbit trails - Premise of the series is clever - The series has take some cool twists and has me wondering where its going - Still trying to figure how the good vs evil rosters will be filled outCons: - DHS agents who expect everyone else to have the morals they don't have (the lead roles specifically) - Dialogue can be really stale and predictable at times - How many times does Tom yell "hey" to a fugitive leading them to run and have a manufactured chase scene happen with Tom tackling them into furniture or tables or something. - The series is starting to feel like an "ability of the week" series.Overall entertaining, but I grimace at some of the plot lines and dialog.

caboykin55 my daughter committed suicide September 28 2008. I will never know why? She took that to her grave. But I will say this to Scott Peters, the author of The 4400. After watching episode 8 of your series I could not help balling my eyes out once again as I often do when those feelings overwhelm me on certain occasions. My daughter left a journal of sorts behind. More like a small book of poems she wrote herself. It never occurred to me "abduction" could have any role in her death. She actually shot herself once in her temple to end her life. She also often talked to me about voices in her head. I always assumed she was slightly Bi-Polar but that was never diagnosed professionally, just my own assumption. In the end of your Episode 8, the little girl from 1955 (which by the way is the year I was born) leaves her diary of sorts on her bed for her newly adopted mother to find. I broke down when they showed the first page of the diary titled "Things I See". It is now June 2014 and it is the first time I have ever seen your series. I am watching on Netflix by the way. In my daughters book there are several pages that are written in "Alien" handwriting and to this day, I have yet to know what they all mean. She told me in 2004 it was her secret code but never mentioned aliens or being abducted or anything ever like that so I never gave it a second thought UNTIL NOW! I don't know where you came up with this story, "The 4400"?? Why do I even think that there could be a connection 6 years after of her death. But I must say this, I am very confused now and will not and cannot rule out "Alien Abduction" at this time. If you (Scott Peters) get a chance to read this, I would like for you to contact me. Maybe I could show you this "Alien Writing" that only my daughter knows what it says. Maybe you could help decipher these pages for me. Thanks

Victor I grew to love this t.v. series. But some people here are right, this show takes a few episodes to get into. After watching the first three episodes in one sitting and I didn't think much of the show. I was at the point of moving on to the next series on my list of shows to watch but decided to give this show one more shot. I can't explain how the show sucked me in from this one episode on, but it did, and I'll be forever fortunate to have stuck with this series. The storyline just got so much more involving after the 3rd episode and the show became much more enjoyable. I can be too quick to judge television shows, maybe it's because I've enjoyed so many great ones and have high standards as to what is allowed to occupy my time. After watching the complete series this show has become one of my favorites, although it was unfortunately canceled prematurely. Now, I've even purchased the novel that continues this series.Great story, great acting, and a series that piques your imagination. And this series isn't corny like No Ordinary Family and it doesn't turn into a huge soap opera like the Heroes series. By the way, another great series similar to this one is Alphas, that's the one I'm on to now!

ajoyce-222-935612 Some viewers are right to complain that the plot lines in The 4400 have some jagged edges. But this is not to be mistaken for bad writing. These writers clearly know how to put a compulsive pulse to the story. The cliff-hanger is a bit formulaic and over-used but the plot twists are compelling and interesting enough in their implications to make you want to continue. We are at least talking about ideas here instead of passing off glossy action movies as sci-fi. Remember ideas? Oops! We were supposed to forget those. Long live Ray Bradbury... Rod Serling... Isaac Asimov... Art of the Impossible Made Possible. The whole messiah complex as an ongoing theme is both compelling and disturbing. As my Darling Clementine asked one night while watching The 4400: "What are the filmmakers' intentions here? What are their values?" Her confusion is understandable. One episode Jordan Collier seems like the next Mahatma Gandhi, the next he's closer to the Big Red Guy. Given that I don't particularly look up to authority figures like NTAC agents, I found it hard at first to adjust to seeing them as 'heroes.' And the implied 'War on Terror' gets a little bit grating at times. Fortunately actors Gretsch and McKenzie and the cast are good enough to make us care about their characters as we go along. And the moral complexities they face in the nature of carrying out duties for an authoritarian state are straight from hell. That's what I mean. Ideas. If there's an idea that makes me uncomfortable in The 4400, it's that the producers might have had a Christian agenda to making this series. Though once again, the writing is subtle enough to always leave you wondering. The Jordan Collier thing (JC) and the book of the White Light cult is an obvious allegory for early Christianity. That Collier's 4400 feel they must hide in the wilderness calls to mind Christianity when Rome still held power and had no intention yet of leaving its gods. The ridiculous lengths Kyle will go to in order to make the holy book's prophecy come true make it obvious the problem with prophecy in the first place. Written in the right language, it can be interpreted as being "fulfilled" in almost ANY historical age. His intensity to see it fulfilled ensures that he will do whatever it takes to make it happen. Ah, yes. The age-old problem with fundamentalist interpretations of religious texts. So are the show's producers pro, anti or neutral JC? Because I really hate sneaky preaching. On the other hand, with writers as clever as these ones, maybe they just wanted it left ambiguous, like life really is anyway. By now we surely understand how the mechanism of religion works on the human psyche. The predictable results and tragedies. At times on The 4400 I wonder if I'm watching a parody of religion. As entertainment, The 4400 is captivating, engaging, AND thought-provoking. Not three terms you see together much these days in movies. Even many European films of late have lost their narrative edge. But the writers to this series made us think about complex questions we might otherwise not have pondered: What would YOU do if you suddenly came back from nowhere with a completely new ability? Would you use it to make yourself richer, more powerful? Or more spiritually evolved?