ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

redx1708 If you liked X-men, The 4400 or Heroes, you might feel tempted to check out this one. My advice would be: Don't waste your time ! I think the main problem is weak scripts. The writers probably tried to find some new angles to a well tried formula, but didn't really come up with anything. Most of the characters seemed without much substance, which didn't give the actors much to work with, and except for Gary they were just uninteresting people despite their powers. Rosen was certainly no Xavier and most important, they didn't give us a good villain. The main bad guy, who's actually first introduced in season 2, don't really give off any of the charisma one would expect from a head antagonist. We don't get into what makes him tick, except that he wants to kill a lot of people and rule the world.(Wow, what an original idea). A few stabs at giving him a human side fails pathetically, and like the rest of the cast just fizzles out. So after 2 seasons it folded, and while the ending of the last episode was probably meant as an end of season cliffhanger, it could also be seen as an act of mercy.

ah-52966 I have no clue how this is entertaining.the characters are just all annoying, make no sense, and are cheap rehashes of entertaining characters from great shows. The whole idea is also mind boggling, the government trusts specifically a woman who can change anyone's will to what she wants with little to no effort, everyone else's "abilities" are essentially useless and never seem to help. This show has a lot of other problems, like the actors. The actors/ actresses are all terrible either show no emotion or show too much or are just not in character. I wish someone could explain how this show is "good". If anyone can explain please go ahead I have seen no positives from it. Is this long enough yet, I have ran out of stuff to say about this show.

Alice Digsit I'm not much into superhero stuff but I like Sci Fi so I risked watching this after a little prevarication. Some of that trepidation continued for the first few episodes, but the series slowly got a grip on me and I finished it with a very positive impression.The stories themselves were okay, the powers the characters had were more DC comics than anything even vaguely scientific, but it was all nicely dressed up and I found it less irksome than I'd expected it to be to suspend my disbelief. The acting was really pretty good, industry standard, I suppose, which seems quite good these days. The actual characters themselves were an interesting bunch, each with their own plausible strengths, quirks and problems.What I felt was best handled in this show, though, and better than in any other I've seen, was the way the various characters struggled with their personal moral responsibilities to themselves and to the community at large, and their sense of loyalty to their leaders. The distrust of high level decisions, the damaged trust at bad decisions, the situation where rebellion would mean effective defection to a "terrorist group" but acquiescence meant becoming a "government flunkie" and the various ways in which each character was less than perfect were all facets which were scripted and handled well.We live in a time when one does not need to be in the slightest paranoid to understand how sometimes malevolent and sometimes stupid government decision-making can be. Recent history has shown there have been many dark conspiracies and dastardly doings by almost all governments: the more powerful the government the worse their misdeeds seem. Usually, in screen dramas with this sort of derring-do scenario, this is dealt with by perhaps a scapegoat at the top who gets caught, or maybe the heroes directly fighting uniformly evil government baddies, or the issue is just played down while the government tries to lead everyone in doing the right thing. I felt that Alphas was well written and acted and directed around this issue and served as a nice exploration of the moral quagmire surrounding the questions of public and private politics and power and our decisions as to how we should act.

Tre Luu It was no slam-dunk, especially in the wake of the failure of "Heroes" and last season's dud "No Ordinary Family." Created by Zak Penn ("X-Men: The Last Stand," "The Incredible Hulk") and Michael Karnow, it got bounced out of ABC during the writers strike while the script included a character whose superpower was the ability to shatter glass with a whisper.It landed at Syfy, where it wisely lost the whisperer and gained a terrific cast, headed by Strathairn, who plays the deceptively paternal leader of a group of "alphas," whose abilities come with refreshingly believable downsides. The super-strength of former FBI agent Bill Harken (Malik Yoba) comes only in short bursts followed by exhaustion, Rachel Pirzad (Azita Ghanizada) can heighten her senses but only one at a time and at the expense of the other four, Gary Bell (Ryan Cartwright) can process digital information out of thin air but is autistic, and Nina Theroux (Laura Mennell) can bend people's will to her own but … well, it's not clear what the downside to that is but no doubt it has something to do with failed relationships.