Harockerce What a beautiful movie!

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InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Winifred The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

watchtan I like this show, the premise is fun and lots of creative ideas. But the writing especially in the first season is awful, particularly the dialogue. The acting, with a few exceptions (Mahershala Ali) is generaly sub-par. The lighting and camera work is often pretty terrible too, like watching a 90s soap opera. But overall entertaining.

Felix B I just finished watching all 4 seasons on Netflix, and I have to say that S1 and 2 were really innovative and enjoyable Sci-Fi drama, with characters and stories you would care about. I also liked the idea behind the storyline.Unfortunately the original storyline was washed away by adding more and more esoteric and religious nonsense in S3 and S4 , which amounted in the praise of a new Jesus (Jordan Collier) with a cult like movement willing to sacrifice half of the population of the earth because of some book and visions, a way that was hardly questioned in the end (altough it ends on a cliffhanger),and was indeed portrayed as good.The whole mess started out when they added that rival group from the future trying to sabotage the 4400 with grown up Isabelle, instead of focusing on what really happens in the future (which was never made clear) and how the 4400 should prevent it, I mean set some milestones! By that time unfortunately a lot of plot holes started to emerge too, for example abducting Maia again and sending her further back into the past, or Tom committing "suicide" and being send back, Elena being abducted and send back further in the past too. I mean if it's just that easy to send everybody around in time and bring someone back from the dead into another dimension, what's the point of the 4400 anyway? Then everything goes, why not sending someone back to the ancient Romans and change course there, and if you don't succeed try again in the middle ages. ^^ They really should have focused more on the upcoming catastrophe in the future, on how and when it's going to start, how to prevent it.Another frustrating factor were the relationships of Tom and Diana in S3 and 4. I mean I appreciate the fact that they for one time didn't do the obvious and brought Diana and Tom together, but their relationships seemed random and meaningless to the storyline, even Tom and Elana, but especially Diana and Marco/ Ben.But the most upsetting part was the "let's bring god to earth" and "the solution for paradise is everybody on promicin" storyline. I guess looking back 2004-2007 was a time were evangelicals were on the rise in America and maybe that storyline reflects that a little bit, but it was unbearable to watch.The idea behind this whole storyline alone contradicts everything we learned throughout the first 2 seasons, and that is that people with abilities are not automatically better human beings than people without. Just like the regulars some of them used their powers for good, some of the for their own sake or fraud, and some of them to hurt and kill people. I mean even the abilities itself were not in every case designed to do good, some of them were (like healing), others just caused destruction, chaos or violence.That all was negated in S4 and especially in the finale, just do what some vision/ ability and an old book tells you (dumbest character of the series: Kyle) and give everybody an ability or let them die, because then you'll get heaven on earth, sure, no one out of billions of people will ever use an ability to kill somebody anymore, hallelujah, we are all reborn *facepalm*.When you start skipping some scenes while watching to get to the end you know something has been lost in S3 and S4, and that's what happened when I watched. I'd still recommend it though if I have to rate all 4 seasons together.

zjwen I have watched the first episode and about 5 minutes of the second. I almost switched it off within the first 2 minutes of the first episode, but decided I was to lazy to get up and since they have made 4 seasons, it is bound to get better. After the first episode I was really irritated with the acting and the writing of this monstrosity. The reason I was 5 minutes into the second episode, is because netflix automatically starts up the next one and I was still lazy, so it took me some time to get off the couch, switch it off and check IMDb. To my surprise I saw a lot of reviews claiming this is the best series ever and what not. I am truly surprised to see what bad taste most people have. No wonder shows like touch are cancelled. And because of this bad taste, I truly believe that Hannibal will not see a third season......All I can say about the 4400 is STAY AWAY FROM THIS ONE. And all I can say to people who really like garbage like this, stop f*cking up the ratings for good shows

ajoyce-222-935612 Some viewers are right to complain that the plot lines in The 4400 have some jagged edges. But this is not to be mistaken for bad writing. These writers clearly know how to put a compulsive pulse to the story. The cliff-hanger is a bit formulaic and over-used but the plot twists are compelling and interesting enough in their implications to make you want to continue. We are at least talking about ideas here instead of passing off glossy action movies as sci-fi. Remember ideas? Oops! We were supposed to forget those. Long live Ray Bradbury... Rod Serling... Isaac Asimov... Art of the Impossible Made Possible. The whole messiah complex as an ongoing theme is both compelling and disturbing. As my Darling Clementine asked one night while watching The 4400: "What are the filmmakers' intentions here? What are their values?" Her confusion is understandable. One episode Jordan Collier seems like the next Mahatma Gandhi, the next he's closer to the Big Red Guy. Given that I don't particularly look up to authority figures like NTAC agents, I found it hard at first to adjust to seeing them as 'heroes.' And the implied 'War on Terror' gets a little bit grating at times. Fortunately actors Gretsch and McKenzie and the cast are good enough to make us care about their characters as we go along. And the moral complexities they face in the nature of carrying out duties for an authoritarian state are straight from hell. That's what I mean. Ideas. If there's an idea that makes me uncomfortable in The 4400, it's that the producers might have had a Christian agenda to making this series. Though once again, the writing is subtle enough to always leave you wondering. The Jordan Collier thing (JC) and the book of the White Light cult is an obvious allegory for early Christianity. That Collier's 4400 feel they must hide in the wilderness calls to mind Christianity when Rome still held power and had no intention yet of leaving its gods. The ridiculous lengths Kyle will go to in order to make the holy book's prophecy come true make it obvious the problem with prophecy in the first place. Written in the right language, it can be interpreted as being "fulfilled" in almost ANY historical age. His intensity to see it fulfilled ensures that he will do whatever it takes to make it happen. Ah, yes. The age-old problem with fundamentalist interpretations of religious texts. So are the show's producers pro, anti or neutral JC? Because I really hate sneaky preaching. On the other hand, with writers as clever as these ones, maybe they just wanted it left ambiguous, like life really is anyway. By now we surely understand how the mechanism of religion works on the human psyche. The predictable results and tragedies. At times on The 4400 I wonder if I'm watching a parody of religion. As entertainment, The 4400 is captivating, engaging, AND thought-provoking. Not three terms you see together much these days in movies. Even many European films of late have lost their narrative edge. But the writers to this series made us think about complex questions we might otherwise not have pondered: What would YOU do if you suddenly came back from nowhere with a completely new ability? Would you use it to make yourself richer, more powerful? Or more spiritually evolved?