Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

elatham-67842 You should have made the new Hawaii 5-O close to the old story. The old show was professional and more to real life. When you have employees that complain, or find fault with their job, they aren't to happy with the job. Danny needs to be more professional. What police department acts the way the new Hawaii 5-O acts.

Mark Turner This review is of the complete series box set just released.A controversy is raging right now that will affect so many movie and TV fans and yet most are probably not aware of it. The sales of DVDs and blu-rays has dropped recently. Most are citing the digital and streaming services that are out there. One thing you need to realize is that if you lose your internet connection or a server crashes all of what you own digitally or watch streaming is suddenly unavailable. This is why I for one support the existence of hands on media in the form of discs. They're always there whenever you want them.And one of the best things to happen with the release of DVDs is the ability to collect a TV series that you either grew up with or have grown to love. A number of these have reached shelves at reasonable prices. Some have come out in season form so that you could purchase them one at a time. But CBS Video has taken it a step further and begun selling off entire series in a box set that takes up less space. It might make for a hefty one time price but it ends up being cheaper than buying each season alone.With that in mind let me talk about one that is being released this week, a box set heavy enough to make a doorstop. If you grew up in the sixties you knew this show and its theme son, one that got heavy airplay on the radio. I know it was in my collection of 45s from the time (kids ask your grandparents what 45s were). The show took place in Hawaii and revolved around a special state government task force to combat crime. The series was HAWAII FIVE-O and the entire original series is now out in a special box set.HAWAII FIVE-O told us the story of U.S. Naval Officer Steve McGarret (Jack Lord), an imposing figure who stood tall, wore a suit and tie and was the epitome of a straight up law enforcement agent. The Five-O task force was put together by the governor and only answered to him. Each week the group would take on anything from kidnappers to secret agents, crime lords to foreign spies. No crime was too big or small for them to take on. Well maybe dognapping but little else.While led by McGarrett he was ably assisted by his team. Danny "Danno" Williams was a younger officer played by James McArthur. It was McGarrett's catch phrase to Williams that most folks remember, the old "Book him, Danno". Williams stayed with the series almost as long as Lord, dropping out before the last season.Also in his task force were two sidekicks. Chin Ho played by Kam Fong who was actually born on Hawaii was an Asian-American actor who actually served as a police officer for 16 years before becoming an actor. He made several movies but it was this series that made him recognizable. The other was Kono played by Zulu. Here again we had another native Hawaiian who made a name for himself in this series.The islands of Hawaii were a major part of the series too, as if they were a partner in it all. The series was shot on Hawaii, something rare at the time. It exposed the rest of the country to the beauty of the islands with opening shots of clear blue skies, beautiful beaches and swaying hips in grass skirts to the opening theme song that became so familiar and was a hit for the surf rock band The Ventures. There is little doubt that the series, even though it depicted crimes taking place there each week, was a great help in promoting tourism on the islands.This series was a hit at the time lasting longer than many. It ran for 12 seasons from 1968 through 1980. It lasted for 281 episodes. At an average of 50 minutes per episode that means there are just over 14,050 hours of show to watch. That means it would take 585 days running around the clock to watch the entire series. All of those episodes are gathered together in this box set. Fortunately if you have it on hand you won't have to watch it in consecutive 24 hour time periods. You can take your time and enjoy them as you like and have them bring back memories of the family gathered around the TV set doing so.As I said, this doesn't come cheap. Right now amazon has it on sale for $116.40 with a suggested retail price of $179.98. But like I said, the amount of episodes coupled with the memories they provide makes it worth the investment for die-hard fans. I mean that comes out to about a penny an hour. You can't even park a car that cheap. If you are one of those die-hard fans then make a point of picking this one up. The show along with a few extras will make you smile for days to come.

galensaysyes When approached to direct a proposed movie version of this series, an enterprise that has been repeatedly undertaken and then shelved over the past twenty years, Quentin Tarantino took a look at the show for the first time and discovered that it "sucked." The tardiness of his discovery made me laugh. The show, despite its popularity, did "suck," and can now clearly be seen as having done so, but in ways that were uniquely bizarre.First, it was incredibly boring. Coming two years after the spy shows, where characters trotted the globe and saved or overthrew governments, here was an "action" show where nothing ever happened.Of course no show is bad a hundred percent of the time, and this one had a few episodes that stood out from the rest. One of the best was in effect a one-set, two-character play confined to a hotel room where the lead cop, McGarrett, was holed up with a woman he was protecting against an ex-boyfriend she had sent to prison, who had escaped with the announced intention of paying her back. The story traced the shifting balance between the two characters and built to a neat twist ending where everything turned out the opposite of what it had appeared.Another good episode with a twist in its tail was a portrait of an emotionally blocked Marine who was suspected and convicted of rape, but who turned out in the end to be physically incapable of it due to an accident some years before. He had arranged to incriminate himself so "the other guys wouldn't find out I'm not a man." These episodes were the exceptions. For the most part, the "action" of the show was inaction: dull square stodgy men standing around talking: middle-class white men in suits; lower-class Hawaiians in Hawaiian shirts; and the occasional Southern redneck (on this show, all the rednecks were grinning, degenerate loonies). The outlook of the show was so unhip as to make it appear that the writers had been locked in a vault for most of the century. Their hippies and leftists, spouting impossible slogans, were on about the same order of reality as characters in Dick Tracy comics. One radical group, for instance, ran a theater company; in another episode "Danno," McGarrett's lieutenant, was cornered by a ring of beefy, flower-shirted "acidheads." The show's dialogue wrought weird changes on the slang of the era: "What's your bit?" (i.e. "bag"); "Are you ready to let it happen?" (cf. "What's happening?"); "You flip me, man"; or (describing a soup) "Guaranteed to blow your stomach." Plus the occasional faux-redneck argot: "I'll shoot him between his funky Russky eyes." Nobody ever talked like that; I doubt that the writers ever heard anybody talk. Not to mention McGarrett's penchant for sententious (and, for a cop, unlikely) quotation: "You know, Danno, someone once wrote that every man's death diminishes me, because I am a part of all mankind." When the show wasn't doing cop stories, it was doing equally boring spy stories which, despite the boringness, were so implausible as to make The Man from U.N.C.L.E. look like a CIA dossier.But the primary object of fascination on the show now, seen as a cultural artifact, is its leading man. Like William Shatner on Star Trek, Jack Lord started out as a competent, stolid B-Western type of hero but gradually, left to his own devices and his own ego, became ever hammier and more narcissistic. His line readings grew slower and more self-infatuated by the year; he would issue the most mundane orders, like "Run a check on that plate," as if he were delivering a soliloquy from Hamlet, and punctuate them with gestures that had obviously been thought out and rehearsed beforehand but came out limp and silly: pounding his fist on a desk, snapping his fingers several times in succession, as if to say "Let's get cracking." And as if to gratify his ego, his co-stars were made to hang on his orders like a retinue of dependent courtiers, all but bowing as they exited while promising to get right on it.Unaccountably, Hawaiian shows always seem to have a gay subtext, and some of Lord's wardrobe choices on this show are difficult to interpret otherwise. In one scene he is introduced lounging in a hip-length lemon yellow bathrobe; in another he sports a white plantation suit, a flashily colored ascot, and a broad-brimmed plantation hat.Some of the other eccentric touches in his characterization are not easily interpretable. During a visit to Los Angeles, where a research librarian whose aid he has enlisted develops an immediate, unaccountable infatuation for him, he parts from her with a kiss on the lips and a "So long, chicky baby." In another episode, he's planted in a prison cell to trick a convict into dropping information about some stolen loot (an announcer at a microphone feeds a fake news story of Lord's arrest into the convict's radio, just like on Mission: Impossible), and impersonates a "con" by affecting a sideways grin, dropping the "g" at the end of participles, and chewing on a toothpick. Later, when he and the con's gang are holed up together in a hotel room, he affects a pair of shades and an orange turtleneck and pounds the sideboard like a set of bongos. He acts like a crazy gay man with the delusion he's James Cagney, but none of his companions seems to notice.Now I come to think of it, given Tarantino's penchant for ineffectual macho goofballs, he might have been able to do something with this material, after all.

FloatingOpera7 Hawaii Five-O (1968-1980): Starring Jack Lord, James MacArthur, Kam Fong, Zulu, Al Harrington, William Smith, Sharon Farrell, Hermen Wedemeyer, Moe Keale, Richard Denning, Glenn Cannon, Al Eben, Maggie Parker, Peggy Ryan, Morgan White...Created By Leonard Freeman For many folks, "Hawaii Five-O" was the greatest "cop/detective" series on television, and in truth, it was the success of this long running series ('68-80, 12 years)that inspired other memorable detective series such as "Streets Of San Francisco" in the 70's and L.A. Law and Magnum P.I. in the 80's. The trend continues with today's "Law and Order" and "CSI". Jack Lord stars as the tough, no-nonsense, overly analytical, intelligent and charismatic Steve McGarret, who for years solves crimes and puts baddies behind bars in the beautiful state-island of Hawaii. James McArthur portrayed his right hand man Detective Danny "Danno" Williams and Asian actor Kam Fong portrayed Chin-Ho, another resourceful detective on the police force. Shot on location in Honolulu, Hawaii and other parts of the islands, the series was ahead of its time. A lot of the episodes (though not all of them) seem very real and probable, as if the crimes being committed, as dramatic as they were, could actually occur. For instance, several crimes involved drug traffic and prostitution, which never stops even in the mainland of the US. Admittedly, some of the villains were fiendishly evil, bordering on comic book villains, especially in the more psychotic criminals who killed for sport or fetishes. When the baddies weren't after peoples' lives, they were out to get their money in elaborate money schemes. At times, the show was full of contrived suspense, i.e. they would leave out enough in a span of ten minutes to leave you hanging before commercial breaks. Some episodes were divided into two parts, particularly the overly dramatic ones i.e. McGarett gets shot, they have to find out who shot him, he is hospitalized and during that time Dano takes over, McGarett is sued and goes to court, etc. Several villains returned various times to the show. The writing on the show is well-done and there was an overall feeling of mystery and action, though never as violent as today's shows. So sit back, watch McGarett and his men extract justice amidst surfing, luxurious paradise resorts and fun in the sun.