smokskren

This series - although it has a 'spy' plot - is amazingly captivating. Donovan is truly fascinating!! I've been watching Burn Notice and trying to figure out why he looked familiar and I finally had to look it up here...he was on an episode of Monk in which he played a totally unlikeable character. I cannot believe this is the same actor!! Donovan even affects a slight accent for this series...or he dropped it for Monk. Anyway - to me, the barely there accent implies a slightly European side to Donovan's character, which lends credibility to his wordly spy persona.

Plot could be James Bond redux but it's not - new twists, Michael's narration of the stories and terrific character development keep this series fresh. Michael also has a fairly complex childhood background which is revealed in pieces which helps to explain Michael's life. Michael's mom is quite the character played by the quintessential Sharon Gless!

Donovan is super sexy and that's what originally caught my eye, (I'm sure the male watchers find Fiona irresistible in spite of being so difficult!) but I've kept watching because of the tremendous development of the characters and the unique presentation of the episodes.

Michael & Fiona's friend Sam is quite complex and masterfully played by Bruce Campbell. I'd never heard of him before but after checking out his page on IMDb I realize he's quite the accomplished actor which explains his capability in this series.

Love it!! I believe you'll thoroughly enjoy it!

I wasn't expecting this to be the caliber of a box office hit but I was hoping it'd be palatable. I watched something like the first 15 minutes and decided it probably wasn't going to get better (it didn't), so I watched the rest of it at 1.5 speed. The photography was unreal, or too real - the outdoor scenes looked like someone just took their video camera outside & took pictures in the alley. In view of the other horrible 'special effects' maybe this was supposed to be special too but it just came across as bad. The only way I could tell it hadn't been filmed by someones personal camera was that the voices were clear in all of the scenes, no extra background noise. In addition to the not-so-special fx the plot couldn't have been worse. It has the same situations that every bad scary movies does where the young innocent walks into a situation that no sane person would enter and then lo & behold...the bad guys are there!!! Totally predictable as well. This movie isn't worth 10 minutes of your time. The ONLY thing that I have anything even remotely good to say anything about was the music soundtrack, an odd mix of swing/Frank Sinatra type songs with some seriously heavy acid rock. If you've read to the end of this review, you've already spent more time on this movie than it's worth. Terrible. Lousy. Bad everything. Really, really horribly done.