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Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

StuOz A passenger plane goes missing, a 20-something male is on the run from the FBI, this is just part of the adventure.I first saw this in 2017 on DVD. The DVD cover sort of promised science fiction and the series title, The Event, does sound like a sci-fi title. But it is more of an adventure/Lost-ish series instead. Not what I expected.The Event series begins so well.In fact, after watching the first two episodes you will think you have found a real gem of a series. By episode seven or eight I had some concerns that I was not going to make all the way through the 22 episodes. I gave up at episode ten.What kept me going for ten episodes is that I just wanted to see what happens next with young Sean Ritter (almost a younger version of Richard Kimble from The Fugitive TV series), but as the series moved on we also got swamped with dull sub-plots about boring aliens and a boring US president. It just got too much for me when all I wanted was to follow the lead character and nothing else.Perhaps others will enjoy this show more than me. Maybe I have just seen too many US adventure shows like this and I did not want to go down this road yet again. Maybe that was the problem I had with it?

soumya mazumder Too predictive as it goes towards the end. At the beginning it started so interesting but as time pass by they assumed the viewers and di*kheads and started feeding unreal plot. So boring to see always the obvious ending in each episode. It could have been a lot more interesting if some unpredictable things started to happen. All the main characters are saved somehow in the end.. ha ha

Nádor Antal Balázs I really do enjoyed the flashbacks which helped to put the puzzle together in the first few episodes. My girlfriend said it's too complicated, but it's obviously not overcomplicated. You just have to watch it carefully to not miss a second from the plot.I strongly hope that the writer of the series will find a new home for this title, because people all over the world try to claim for the 2nd season. In Hungary, there is a phrase for it: "Pénz beszél, kutya ugat." translated= "Money talks, dogs are barking." It means, only profit matters :(This title obviously has a great potential in the story, I'm sad that I can't see it finished. There are many open questions, like who are the protectors (group of protective angels)?, or how the new breed managed to live on the earth first before us!?, is truly the president's wife a new breed?, etc. Interesting to say at least and last :)I wanted to say some about the casting: The actors are great, honestly, mostly all of them. My personal favourites are Mr. Lee (gov. agent) and Blake (the director of the CIA) as it's absolutely awesome to see, how their character evolve during the episodes.

frenchmonkeys I watched this through for the first time now in 2012, and was thoroughly disappointed to learn there would be no more to follow.I enjoyed it immensely - a 24esque political terrorism thriller, but with the twist that here the terrorists are aliens, and their motivations are conflicted - we move from being sympathetic to their plight, to being completely horrified by them and cheering on those who wish to incarcerate/exterminate them. The way it builds, drawing an ordinary person into playing a pivotal role in such an incredible plot is done thoughtfully and believably. Unlike other sci-fi shows, the main focus is on the pace of the action, the unfolding of the complex, twisty-turny plot, and personalities of the main protagonists: the flashy, gimmicky effects used in other shows to hide the limited strength of the plot are missing here.Where alien technology is shown, it is done so carefully, and shows that it has very real limits, but still manages to terrify with the potential outcomes.I wish there was more to come - I want to know more about what happened in the past, and what will happen in the future, and the roles of the guardians, etc.The only thing that made me cringe was at the last minute when a planet was drawn to become Earth's neighbour. Everyone felt a bit of a shaky ground and windows. However, if an object so massive was drawn so close to the Earth, that would be a global destruction event in itself - the new gravitational effect against the earth would cause tidal waves, earthquakes, etc. as water and molten lava were attracted towards it, but sine it also wasn't spinning and had no apparent kinetic energy, it's motion once it got there would be difficult to predict - would it crash into the earth, the moon, as it took up a new orbit of its own, or with no apparent existing forces acting upon it, would it just start on a straight trajectory for the sun, messing up the orbit of the moon and the earth as it did so (still pulling on them with its own gravity). Hmmm. Anyway....That colossal guff ignored, I'd still love to see more of it. I don't understand how shows with such a brilliant story, well-portrayed, and well-liked, are dumped in favour of crap viewing. So unfortunate. Still, if you haven't already seen this, go get it on DVD and you won't be disappointed.