georgesh3

There are 158 user comments but the user rating is based on five comments. This I don't believe. Why don't all of the voter ratings show up. It looks like someone is trying to suppress low ratings. If so, how did they do it and why haven't I seen this in other movies. I enjoyed the movie myself, even though it was raunchy, and gave it a "7." I've seen comments for popular movies such as "Sex In the City" and other "chick flick" movies that are very low considering the commercial success of the movies. I've seen TV movies where the user ratings were based on less than 100 votes and, of course, some blockbuster will have composite ratings based on more than 100,000 votes. It is not fair to the IMDb audience who use this rating to decide on whether want to see a movie.

I continue to be impressed with the quality of some of the many TV movies made and this was one of the best. The action was fast, the acting was excellent and, the best of all, the script was great. People who liked the theater movies based on James Patterson novels ("Kiss the Girls" and "Along Came the Spider") would be very pleased with "First to Die." A TV movie can be longer than a theater movie and, therefore, can do a better job of transferring the novel to the screen.

This fine TV movie did justice to the musical play, which I've enjoyed both on stage (two different versions) and on-screen. The photography, costumes and acting were wonderful Matthew Broderick was different from Robert Preston but did a good job, especially in the last part of the movie. I hope to see more musical classics made as TV movies.