Solidrariol Am I Missing Something?

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

toreaaboe The whole show feels like a B-series all the way.The plot: Firstly, the backstory is just silly. Sydney is working for a spy organization that is an enemy of USA inside USA. They have a office, research lab and many spies and other personal working from a office building in plain sight. USA government knows about this and allow it to operate. This is just insane, that would never happened. They would be violently shut down the moment they knew about it. But instead they send in undercover agents.The actions in the episodes: It is so simple and unrealistic. They just walk into secret buildings, guards just disappear into thin air, and they have access to all kind of high profile events like government officials would, and they act like they was CIA. All is so unrealistic that it is a slap in the face of any thinking person alive. We don't see any use of intelligence and creative thinking, its just blunt action packed into a really bad setting.Shallow and uninteresting characters: As the rest of the series the characters feel empty and shallow. One thing I like to look for in TV-series/movies, is the atmosphere and tension between characters, the development of the relationships, and the depth of characters that allow you as a watcher to connect with the characters. But in this TV show this part feel non existent, the characters is too simple and shallow to build any tensions, atmosphere or connection.How the episodes progress: This TV show jump very quickly from scene to scene and take large jumps between the scenes. Usually Sydney usually visit 2-3 locations worldwide in each episode and its all just fast action and little story. There is little time left for charterer building or celebration of victories, its just continues action.What is good?: Pretty girl that do martial arts.Summary: The whole show feel very simple and shallow, like it was written in very short time without much thought. The continues action and little focus on character development, relationship building and creating an interesting story makes the show feel empty, simple and boring.

Ben Smith What is the most pedestrian spy show on the planet? Alias. What has the most unanimously terrible acting, with the most unanimously terrible cast, and the most unanimously terrible writing? Alias. And its not like its even the sharknado kind of bad, making fun of this show puts a bad taste in my mouth because its not even comical bad, its just pathetically bad. Like the fact that this even had a budget makes me lose faith in humanity. Jennifer garner is just a terrible person, inside and out. Thats the impression i got. No one could possibly be that bad of an actor unless they didn't actually even understand human emotion. The entire show alternates between the whiny "WAHHHH, SPY FEELINGS ARE SO HARD." and "damn that Sloane, he's such a monster, oh, whoops, i accidentally trusted him again for the 80 billionth time, how could i have done that?" OH I Don't KNOW, MAYBE BECAUSE EVERY GODDAMN PERSON IN THIS SHOW IS A GODDAMN MORON. Fool you once, shame on Sloane, fool you twice, shame on you, fool you 80 billion times and i think your IQ must be in the negative. I don't even know if its possible to have a negative IQ, but they pulled it off. Trusting Sloane again only serves as a reusable plot device with no motivation, no reasoning, no explanation whatsoever as to how or why or on what planet its even possible for him to trick them AGAIN, but he still does it. And he's an unbelievable moron as well. Everyone in this show is a moron.I haven't even gotten started about the pedestrian comprehension of spy craft, the ridiculousness of how they actually believe it works. Its like that completely awful scene from CSI where there's two hackers typing on one keyboard because somehow having more hands on more keyboards makes you a better hacker only its ALL THE TIME. ALL THE TIME. 5 whole seasons of that. And nothing else. You think, maybe, just maybe, ONE interesting character will come along. ONE episode that doesn't feel like its raping my eyeballs and mind. But no. Not a single one. They even made Bradley cooper look bad. Marshall was the only mediocre character on the show, out of all of them he sucked the least, and they had moments where EVERYONE ELSE was like, Marshall, shut up, because they thought he was talking too much. I had to scream at my television, NO, YOU SHUT UP. YOU SHUT UP AND YOU DIE. ALL OF YOU. DIE. THAT YOU EVEN MADE IT THIS FAR WITHOUT A BULLET IN EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOUR HEADS IS A FLUKE, A MIRACLE OF NATURE, AND MARSHALL IS THE ONLY ONE OF YOU PEOPLE WHO HAS ANYTHING INTERESTING TO SAY AND **HES** SOMEHOW THE AWKWARD ONE. Might i add the fact that i don't believe for a second that Jennifer garner could seduce ANYONE, EVER. the fact that shes even the main character and people are always complimenting her on her beauty, her brains, her ability, none of which she even has, and the fact that they change the intro after season one to a bunch of moany sex noises and shots of her looking like a transsexual in different skimpy outfits, like they somehow think THAT is their selling point, shows just how out of touch they are. And i have to add, i'm usually a J.J. Abrams fan. Lost was pretty cool for a while, but they made some mistakes. Fringe was a masterpiece. Alias isn't worth a single glance. It is without a doubt, the worst thing i've seen, and that includes the room, bad lifetime movies, two girls one cup. OK, fine, i haven't seen two girls one cup but i still bet its better than this. The only way i got through it was by watching it along sides of NTSF:SD:SUV, most of the jokes in which are clearly referencing alias, and how bad it was. There is one scene where they spoof the whole flashback to college being approached by the thing piper is wearing that awful red wig Sydney had and she gets her eyebrows shaved off and Sam is like, wow, i really don't find you attractive anymore. My sentiments exactly.Even with all of the good stuff JJ Abrams has directed since then he has a LONG way to go to make up for how terrible this show was. If he knows whats good for him, he will pay someone to create a super virus to wipe alias from the internet entirely, and raid peoples homes burning their ancient DVD collections. That would be the best episode of alias ever.

A_Different_Drummer Give or take, Garner was 30 years old when Alias hit the big screen and there was no turning back for her.Have heard so many different stories about how she was "discovered" in Tinseltown that I do not know which to believe.What I do know is that, for a period of time, JG was the new "it girl", she could do no wrong, and audiences simply could not get enough of her.Alias, which ran for 5 years, was simply an OK premise taken to heights of high-camp based solely on the star power of Garner.She was hot, she could act, she could do stunts, she had great reaction shots, and she made it all seem so easy. Even her film roles in his period are worth a look (which is another section of the IMDb entirely).Recommended for teenage boys of all ages.

hnt_dnl When ALIAS premiered in 2001, I just knew something special had been thrust upon the TV viewing audience! The pilot episode was brilliantly constructed. It starts out telling the tale of one Sydney Bristow (played with stunning conviction and depth by the delectable Jennifer Garner!), a 26-year old graduate student, who is engaged and has a circle of close friends (Bradley Cooper and Merrin Dungey). Her friends think she works part-time at a bank, but it is quickly revealed as Sydney enters the bank one day that she works in a super-secret organization underneath the bank called SD-6, which Sydney thinks is a component of the CIA. Syd's SD-6 partner is Marcus Dixon (played solidly by Carl Lumbly).When she tells her fiancé of her double life, the Director of SD-6, Arvin Sloane (played with slick, easy bravado by Ron Rifkin) has him killed because Sydney violated a major SD-6 protocol. Sydney tries to quit the organization, which she now knows is working with the enemy, not the CIA. In an attempt on her life in a parking garage, she escapes with the help of her father, Jack Bristow (more on him later) who she finds out is also a secret agent with SD-6 and has been most of his life, even when she was a child (she thought he was an airline exec).Jack Bristow is played by Victor Garber and for my money, this is one of the best TV characters ever! Garber's portrayal of Daddy Bristow was ALWAYS spot on, even when the series started to falter in its later years. Jack was smart, slick, gutsy, and 100% lethal! He would not hesitate to do what was necessary to get the job done. Of all the so-called evil geniuses this show threw at the viewer over the years, Jack Bristow, one of the good guys, was scarier than all of them put together! Screw Jack Bauer and 24! Jack BRISTOW was the best secret agent "Jack" running around in the early 00s!Sydney wants to quit, but realizes that to take down SD-6, she must work with the CIA, so she goes to the nearest LA office and meets with a "handler" Michael Vaughn (played solidly by Michael Vartan). Sydney and Vaughn of course had an underlying chemistry and sexual tension that would be stretched out (but not for long!).The first season and a half focused on Sydney working with Vaughn and her father to try to take down SD-6 from within. I say that the first season of ALIAS is one of the top seasons in all of TV history. There were so many twists and turns, exciting episodes, great character interactions (Sydney and Jack didn't exactly get along early on) that made this show highly enjoyable. There was a HUGE twist/cliffhanger at the end of the 1st season that is amongst the best cliffhangers ever! Then in its 2nd season, they introduced Sydney's mother Irina Derevko (played with cold-hearted, close-to-the-vest appeal by Lena Olin), who Sydney and Jack thought had died years ago. Turns out Syd's mom was an enemy agent tasked to seduce, marry, and betray Jack and she faked her death. The 2nd season was a pretty brilliant season as well, but then they took down SD-6 midway through the season in a surprising twist! And this is when the show started to run out of ideas IMHO. They did a cliffhanger at the end of Season 2 that I absolutely hated! And it really ruined the show for me. Then in later seasons, with no SD-6 around, Syd and her friends ended up working directly for the CIA and I found the CIA dynamics less interesting than when she was working indirectly for them to take down SD-6.Stories in the last 3 seasons seemed repetitive. You find yourself asking the same questions over again. Can Syd trust Jack? Can Vaughn prove Irina killed his parents? What is the mystery of Arvin Sloane? Etc., etc., etc. I also disliked that they abandoned Syd's double-life after season 2. Her friends found out who she really was one way or another and that spoiled that great early double (actually triple!) life dynamic of the show. Still, I say that from that first season, Jennifer Garner was flat out robbed of the Lead Actress Emmy! She plain should have won based on her incredible work in that impeccable season. And Victor Garber could have won at least 2 or 3 times (sadly, he kept losing to those WEST WING guys!). Also, special mention should go to Kevin Weisman as the hilarious Marshall. Marshall is ALIAS version of Q from the James Bond series. Marshall's lighthearted moments explaining the gadgets with his fidgety, funky personality ALWAYS made me laugh!Season 3 was essentially ruined for me by Melissa George (who played Vaughn's wife), who was a major character that didn't measure up to the other already established cast. But the absurd 2nd season cliffhanger surprise is what really led to it. There was some interesting stuff in Season 4 which kind of led to renewed interest, but by that point the show was really never the same as it had been it's first 2 brilliant years. Still, one of the better shows in the early 00s, but sadly, overall, not amongst the best!