O Projeto Jensen

Claire (Kellie Martin) and Matt Thompson (Brady Smith) are suburban parents to teen Brody Thompson (Justin Kelly). They get a surprise visit from Ingrid (Patricia Richardson) who is the leader of The Jensen Project, a secret think tank of super geniuses solving the world's problems without claiming any credit. Claire and Matt are former members. Claire had left after disputes with her boss Edwin but Edwin has left the organization after stealing and sabotaging some valuable nanobot tech. Claire was the one who had worked on the tech.

This is an NBC movie which served as a back door pilot. Obviously, it was never picked up. There's a good reason for it. It's not inherently a good show for network TV. The obvious action in this movie is catching Edwin and stopping whatever evil plot is going on. It doesn't make any sense that Claire and Matt are doing the pursuing. They are basically the tech nerds in most procedural shows and this one would be a workplace full of tech nerds. There is some fine CGI for TV and its time. The best comparison is probably Scorpion which lasted four seasons but that show used a bit of sex and lots more action to sell the material. This Jensen show is never going to work.

The brody kid makes so many nauseating dorky unattractive facial expressions was he a son of one of the directors because he sure doesn't have any acting Talent and I felt like I was watching a long episode of Home Improvement I honestly never saw jill in another movie so I kept thinking of Home Improvement since her acting demeanor was almost identical. And throughout the movie they try to impress you with high-tech when they're just impressing you with visual effects than anybody could do with Photoshop but I'm not 10 years old and I think this movie is for the range. The cast was not spectacular at all and the continued over use of science vocabulary was gagging me I felt like a 17-year-old wrote the script striving for big words at least I know now I can get rid of one movie from my library because this is not a keeper.

I thought that the movie was entertaining. I have read the other reviews and I do agree with some of the things. The technical terms could be toned down. I was mostly happy to see Kellie Martin again. It was good to see some faces that I have not seen before. I guess that you would have to like fantasy/sci-fi to enjoy this movie. It is a great family show and I guess it could be easily be made more appealing to older audiences. I was a little annoyed with all of the Wal-Mart and Xbox commercials. I do not go to Wal-Mart, nor do I have an Xbox. If NBC does make it into a series they will have to make some adjustments. I hope that at least a part two is created.

My ratings out of 5:

Acting 1/5 (only for Kellie Martin)

Directing 0.5/5

Dialogue 0/5 (never mind how infernally fast actors spoke when dealing with comic-book technology so we couldn't understand)

Story 2.5/5

Script 1/5

Set design 3/5

I quit after about 40 minutes. Pathetic and ghastly and manipulative. Too much speed-talking. Too much background music (bad pop) for who knows what reason. The premise was quite good. The execution was as bad and as cynical as it could be.

Everything was so fake. The dialogue sounded fake and they mention corny technology names too often. Not to give anything away, but I found it ridiculous that they had so much advanced technology, and the whole plot is saved by a simple device that everyone uses now.

Only watch it if you want some laughs at how ridiculous it is.

Out of ten stars, I would give it a, 2/10

One other thing bad about the movie: The Sound mixing was terrible. There was music constantly playing but it was not balanced with the dialogue so it was very difficult to understand what they were saying at times.