Vlad-58

I have just seen Today You Die. It is bad, almost very bad.

1) The direction and editing are awful, just awful. Almost made me turn off the movie, Fauntleroy (the director) has no idea what he is doing, he seems to be filming things at random and some scenes don't make sense at all. Also, I hate it when the same scene is used again in the same movie, in this movie some scenes were used 3 or 4 times. Pretty bad.

2) The dialogue is sometimes good, sometimes awful. I like the fact that they wanted to make Seagal's character and Treach's character seem like they were in a similar relationship to the characters in Lethal Weapon, but it did not work simply because some of the dialogue DID NOT MAKE SENSE, and I speak English very well, it's not that I did not understand the words, it was the fact that the jokes and dialogue lines had no meaning whatsoever.

3) The script is pretty bad. Why do they always try to complicate DTV action movies? Seagal's wife in the movie has psychic abilities, why? Is it useful to the movie? NO. Seagal eliminates a whole bunch of people who work for the guy who betrayed him and he knows these people without having ever met them in the movie. STUPID. The story sometimes goes off track and the jumps back without any reason. The story is messy and pointless sometimes. They should have kept it simple and it would have worked.

4) In some of the action scenes it is not Seagal, it is his stunt double. You can tell because they only film him from behind and never show his face. He also beats the guys with movie martial arts, not real ones like the aikido Steven knows. The stunt double uses cheesy kicks and punches.

5) Steven is good in the movie. 90-95% of the lines are said with his real voice. The rest is dubbing but it is not that bad. This was good. Also Steven seems to be enjoying himself in the movie and is more into the action that he was in Submerged. He likes Treach as a partner; at least he does not seem to dislike him. Also, he seems to have been in better shape than in some of his recent movies. I hate the fact that he wears clothes to hide his body, but in the same clothes that he wears on the DVD cover he looks more than OK and he should have wore those clothes for most of the movie not the stupid long leather coat.

I really think that Seagal was willing to make a good movie. The fact that he came late and took off early from the set ON TWO MOVIES directed by Fauntleroy does not look like a coincidence to me. I think he realized that the crew were amateurs or only in it for a quick buck and he did not give a damn anymore.

In the hands of a better company and crew this might have been a damn good action movie for Seagal. Something like Out for Justice or Above the Law. I honestly believe that. But the people who made the movie are not very good at their jobs or they did not have enough money to do the job properly. Too bad since I liked Steven in the movie and Treach was cool (Ice Cool ) too, but the rest was bad. Hey, at least this gives me hope for Black Dawn and Shadows of the past. I think that Mercenary might be just as badly handled. But hey, Steven seemed to be back into the same mood he was in while making his better movies and at least THAT is reason enough to watch the movie.

I liked it, but it could have been SO much better. 4/10

I simply do not get why people hate this show. It isn't award wining material and I still consider it somewhat inferior to StarGate Sg-1, but after viewing seasons 1 and 2 in the same week and starting on season 3 now (I am up to ep 5 and loving it) I have to admit that it IS up to par with any other Star Trek series. I love it. Some great direction in certain episodes, some nice story lines and special effects to compete with some made-for-cinema Sci-Fi movies, there's nothing really wrong here except the fact that the characters seem to develop too fast during the course of one episode then revert to their primordial status in the next episode. Although this happens in every TV-series it is a little more obvious here...

Here's hoping that Season 4 will be great and that the show will have many more years. I really love the characters Trip, Malcolm and T'Pol, Hoshi is OK, Cpt. Archer is great, but a little too nervous during the 3rd season and Travis is a little too innocent for my taste.

Star Trek is not back, it never left people. Sure this show could be easily improved, but as a fan of TNG and of the 10 movies with a little experience with TOS and DS9 (I don't really like Voyager) I have too admit that this show is great. Just watch it with an open mind, stop fussing about details or time lines, at least the show is great entertainment and done in the same principles as TOS and TNG. Look what AvP The Movie did, it took what was great about the Alien and Pred franchises and ruined them. Enterprise has respect for the source material. I honestly like it.

All the comments about time lines and history which were established in the the other series are correct. But considering that this show is the result of Berman and Braga I have to admit, it could have been much worse. The acting, directing and story lines are above average. The stories are good mostly, some very good and only a handful are below average. The entire cast is doing a proper job,certain episodes are more than wonderfully acted.

I really thought that this show must be bad if so many people hate it. I really don't get why they hate it. It works on every level. I really feel that this is a prequel to TOS despite all the SFX work, but come on! If it had looked like something from the 50's (TOS was made in the 60's so a prequel should look more dated) would you have watched? I would have not...

Give this show a chance, it may surprise you, it surprised me and I now love it. The UNTITLED STAR TREK PREQUEL scheduled for a 2006 release should be with ENTERPRISE.

Come on, help the ratings rise, help make ENTERPRISE lat longer than VOYAGER, it deserves as much... (since it is better)

My vote 8/10.