Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Allissa .Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

ccthemovieman-1 My guess is that one of the big reasons this show got canceled was that, in the long run, people are not going to relate to a "hero" - the supposed "good guy" - when he's not a good guy. It's nice to see a super-smart lawyer help put away the bad guys, but "Shark" is so unlikable, so devoid of any principles, so arrogant and hyper - eventually people tune out.Hey, James Woods is a great actor, a super-intelligent guy in "real life," and always interesting....but his role here is just way too obnoxious. His young group of assistants are all PC-sickening people. "Shark"s incredibly beautiful daughter, played blandly by Danielle Panabaker, is also a Hollywood stereotype: a kid smarter than her parents. The fact that her father is an extremely successful lawyer makes it all the more ludicrous when the daughter wins every argument.I go could go on and on, but what's the point? The show is history, and that's no surprise. Watching the first two episodes back-to-back for two hours the other night was enough for me. The writers of this show outsmarted themselves.

elshikh4 I tried so many times to love the show, but I couldn't. It seems brilliant formula; a team of lawyers act like a team of detectives, with a chief who's kind of bad guy turned into good guy albeit knows all the bad guy's tricks, plus a little charming daughter to put him in some moral dilemmas as a father. So it could be perfect as a court, detective, and drama show. It even managed to get (James Woods) the fine actor, and the lovable cinema star as the title's character, not to mention the super cute Danielle Panabaker. However feel the tragedy of it with me..(Woods) talks fast, OK, Disney itself totally redesigned the character of the evil god at (Hercules) to fit his ability of speaking rapidly, and it worked, in fact he always works, so what's the problem ? The problem here is that it sounds like he infected everyone and everything with the same characteristic to become the ultimate fault !There are so many lines in every episode, nearly all of them has been delivered oddly quickly (?!). As if the cast is forced to utter 2 hours conversations in only 45 minutes and if they couldn't someone will have them all killed ! There is nothing cuts in this one long non-stoppable dialog marathon to the extent that I find myself screaming sometime "Shut Up people" ! The endless swift phrases are filling the episode heavily, and will leave you breathless without much to follow. So it became assured causative for headache more than entertaining (or even comprehensible) show.Add to that what I see as the dullest, most spiritless, direction I've ever seen. MAN are the show's directors that stupid ?? It's non-thrilling to the utmost, and deadly executive like somebody turns over book's pages without even reading them ! I felt there is, always and forever, no time to make something different such as giving the show a certain taste, a personal touch or a sensitive look. What's the difference between its direction and dozens of another contemporary shows' direction ? Actually nothing ! Despite how this show's personality got what could make it distinctive already.Let alone else matters like seeing (Sophina Brown), (Henry Simmons) they're unbearable. The editing is badly rough, mechanical, and distracting, making the actors as rush robots, and the whole thing as cold tasteless delivery. Even the good points (in acting, writing, etc) were run over by this strange idiot speed and the totally blind directing to transform every episode into hasty drivel ends with a verdict seems eventually sudden or random ! It got canceled in May 2008 after only 38 episodes. So this shark ate its particularities, being understandable, and itself also.Obviously.. The makers of it are Guilty, and sorrowfully case is closed.

abdou_shah Is the best court-series i've seen ... worth to mention i was never a fan of any kind of clearing a crime such as csi .... till i saw shark, nice work in writing, directing and story telling still though it needs a lil bit of "24" theme -i think - as for the actors ,james woods still the best. the others are good really .. but i hate to say it ...they all look too damn good . almost too pretty to be lawyers!!! i know they have to attract audience but a lil bit of reality wouldn't hurt!!! for example : Jeri Ryan who plays "Jessica Devlin" she's talented ...and so on but according to her she's suppose to be a bit older !!! i don't wanna say it was a miss-casting but ..... this show has what the other Hollywood shows has : every body is good looking sexy and they all happen to be our stars !!! i like this show ....but its not perfect ...... i wish they did something else here but i guess man can't have it all ;-)

writer997 It is sad that they felt the need to kill off Martin Alende. Alexis Cruz is a wonderful actor and I really thought he did an excellent job in this series. What was the reason for his demise? I feel the show is intriguing and keeps you on the edge of your seat at times. It covers a lot of true to life circumstances and actual crimes that take place nearly on a daily basis. I would like to see more ethnic actors and actresses in this series that have a serious contribution and not the ones that they feel the need to kill off to make a story line. James Wood brings across his character as strong willed and determined attorney that doesn't take "no" for an answer or likes to be challenged. He will tell you, "If you don't like it, there's the door!" This is so true of those in position of power when it comes to law and order. Let's hope his image stays a positive one and not kill off anymore of the co-workers around him! Tracey