LastingAware The greatest movie ever!

Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Whitech It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

lhouraii-23200 It started off pretty good, but by the last 2 seasons I was only watching just to find out what happened.The lead character is VERY unlikable by the end, with little to no character growth. The writers on this show had 2 'plot shockers' that they would use over and over:1: Father reveals "I am your father", "He is my father", "You are my father" 2: Bad character turns good = instant deathIn the end, the only 2 characters I actually liked were Alec and Travis - the rest could have dropped death and I wouldn't care.I would not suggest anyone watches this, as the last 2 seasons seriously ruin the whole show.Also (MAJOR SPOILER) - at the end, when she finally gets back to her precious son (that I guarantee no one watching cares about)... he's not the one she left but she's happy? The one she left, the ones she loves, is still growing up motherless in a corporate future... but she's happy? Yeah, that totally makes sense.Basically, the whole point of the show is that she goes back to stop the bad future from happening... but she didn't. She just got sent to a better future, leaving everyone she loved in the dust. The bad future never got changed, it still happened - just in a different timeline to what she ends up in. I feel weird giving this 5 stars, but I did enjoy it at first... in the end it's just 'meh' and I'll probably forget about this show by the end of today.

johnpendarvis Possibly the worst of a horrific lot of ScFy channel "original" series, a contrived mess that is lifeless, repetitive, and just deadly boring. It also has the distinction of featuring the worst protagonist in recent memory, Rachel Nichols. She has two expressions- one of forced defiance, and a totally blank one that she uses about 90% of the time. Possibly the worst actress on a channel that features Tara Reid, no small accomplishment.

bent-mathiesen I have only seen the first 2 seasons, I doubt I will watch 3 and 4.I was exiting when I saw the first season of this series. Many interesting scenes, cool technology, introduction of persons. How the main character struggle to adapt after traveling back in time. Struggle to find out what happens, try to get back, find a purpose.Unfortunate, in season 2, all is predictable. The rule of the good and bad persons reverses from 2012 to the future. Every person become very static and predictable and no real character development.Boring! Cliché in talk, standard shooting scenes, pointless violence. Play on all the normal issues with corruption in police, politician and powerful business men. All people just play a standard role.Laughable is the genius that invent so much cool technology in the future. The typical one man (boy) show, that can do all, even the impossible. But so easy to trick, that his older self can play him like an instrument over many years in distance.

ericnhall Any spoilers here are about the overall theme rather than the key plot twists.The writers build a construct where they setup a "protagonist" who represents the obvious evil in the world who fights against what so many characterize as "Freedom Fighters" all the while learning why what she represents is really the bad side. This construct has two problems: first, it adds a level of confusion to the plots and stories, and forces the writers to have characters do things that are grossly against the nature of that character and the writers are never able to reconcile any of that. Second, the writer's moralizing is ham handed and blatant and that type of thing always ruins the story regardless of what side of an argument you are on. The concept of the corporations tearing down and then creating their own absolute ruling class is a trope often used by science fiction writers, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a ridiculous concept that is not remotely valid in the real world. It can be understandable to use because so many people see it as a bogyman. But, if you allow yourself to get past this tired and overused trope, you still have a level of warped moralization thrown in your face in virtually every episode. It is hilarious that so many reviewers think the writers are trying to justify totalitarian government and brutality and make the good guys into terrorists. This, in fact, is exactly the opposite to what is happening. The writers clearly have an agenda that is anti-capitalist, anti-corporation, and anti- police (not a surprise in any movie/TV creative environment). They simply use Keira as a straw man to illustrate their point. Unfortunately, this manipulation by the writers absolutely ruins what could have been a very good show. They try to make Keira sympathetic to the viewer as a person who is just trying to get home to her family, yet then they allow her to be amazingly brutal and cold in certain situations and overly willing to believe in anything anybody tells her that might allow her to get home while ignoring just how awful the "corporate council" can be. Then, she'll have revelations after she's been a bad girl and she'll momentarily see where she just might be wrong. But then she reverts again. The writers keep having her revert so they can keep their straw man argument going. But, this leads to an unbelievable character that you just don't care about at all.The terrorism and brutal acts of Liber8 are constantly justified with a "yes, but" argument. They murder a bunch of people, but it's justified because they are trying to stop much worse things in the future. So, even though the writers pretend to make these guys out to be evil, they keep feeding in imagery and flashbacks to show just how justifiable their anger is suggesting that these people were made bad by the actions of the future corporations (rather than the slimy, murderous, sociopathic, zealots that they really are).Many scenes include a level of relative moralism and framing real history in a way that supports the various Liber8 activities and Liber8 sympathizers in their collective stupidity. This TV show really is straight out of Saul Alinsky's playbook. The writers try to justify all this duplicity as trying to show both sides as a little right and a little wrong. Yet, it is obvious which way they are guiding the view to think. The entire show's reason for being is to manipulate political viewpoints rather than to tell a good story. This is why it fails.This whole thing is pure fantasy, but unfortunately, not in a good way.