Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

OllieSuave-007 This is an exciting TV show from FOX that is about an university graduate Tru Davies, who works in the city morgue, witnesses pleas for help from the deceased and is subsequently able to repeat the same day over again to prevent deaths and disasters.Each episode has its own intriguing and unique flavor, not straying from the plot but also not dragging on to make the show dull. And, each episode gives its own taste of suspense and unpredictability, making you eager to find out the truth behind Tru's power and the purpose behind Tru's nemesis - main villain Jack Harper, whose purpose is to make sure things stay the way they are and the course-of-events are not altered by Tru.This show has some excellent acting and episodes are well written - they definitely grab your attention from start to finish with its good mixture of suspense and the unexplained. But, just when things get more exciting, the show was abruptly canceled after two seasons. It is too bad - this show had great potential and was what I think one of the better TV dramas of the 2000s.Grade A-

johannes2000-1 It's really a pity that they didn't prolong this series back in 2005. I had never heard of it before when I bought the DVD-box on an impulse and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Okay, the premise is a bit far-fetched (well: VERY far-fetched!!), but that's no different from many other scifi- and supernatural-oriented series (like Fringe or Supernatural or True Blood, to name a few) so that shouldn't be a problem. The episodes all have a fast pace and the story-line developed itself better and better with every new episode. What a shame that we actually got cut-off right in the middle, so that all the underlying mysteries will never get any solution or explanation.The premise is this. Tru is a medical student who works in a morgue and from the first episode on gets asked (or is "called", as in: "Tru calling"!) by the dead (!) bodies to save them from their apparently untimely dead. Immediately after such calls Tru flashes back a whole 24 hours in time and re-lives the former day in order to try and save the person that asked for her help. The first 3 or 4 episodes are more or less "closed", they concern just one "saving". But as the series proceeds, there are more and more layers and mysteries, like people who know of her "ability" (her mysterious father for instance) and even an adversary time-traveler who tries to prevent her savings. Tru hasn't got a clue as to where her ability comes from or with what goal, but apparently there's some sort of heavenly (?) or universal balance that has to be maintained: some people shouldn't be dead and others shouldn't be kept from dying (a bit like the premise in the Final Destination films). Is it "Death" itself that's leading Tru? Sadly enough the show didn't last long enough to delve into this potentially exciting grounds. The acting is over-all good. Eliza Dushku is the heart of the series and she carries it off with much enthusiasm. She's no classical beauty but she has this fraternity-girl-next-door charm that's very appealing, and her athletic skills are great, just watch her literally run through every episode. Her mentor in the morgue is played by Zach Galifianakis. I understand that by now he's especially known for his comedy roles (like in Hangover!), but back then in 2003 his part was very subdued. This was probably meant as some sort of counter-weight to the more dynamic part of Eliza Dushku, but since they very consistently made him play the nerdy, shy and sociopathic, almost autistic academic, this unfortunately made all of his scenes a bit on the dull side, even when they were clearly supposed to be funny (as his clumsy romantic involvement with a colleague in the last few episodes).On the other hand I loved the part of Harrison, played by Shawn Reaves. He's the self-indulgent, good-for-nothing, always broke and getting into trouble but also very caring brother of Tru, who grows during the episodes into something of an anti-hero in spite of himself. Shawn Reaves plays him to perfection (and is very sexy to boot, in a ruffled and clumsy kind of way). I was surprised to see on IMDb that he had hardly 5 other parts in film and TV since Tru Calling, and evidently stopped altogether in 2009. It's really a pity, since he sure was talented and a treat to watch back then.An important other supporting character was Jason Priestley as Jack Harper, Tru's adversary. He does a fine job, walking casually along the line between sinister and charming, but his part just did't get enough time to develop into something more substantial yet. The same goes for the part of Tru's father. So all this keeps me guessing as to where things went wrong, since the show was so abruptly canceled: why didn't it get (or keep) enough viewers? In my humble opinion it may have been the premise after all. It's necessarily repeated every episode and this got rather predictable. And although scripts and storyline were getting better and better, every episode always began with this slightly preposterous moment, that a dead body suddenly turns to Tru and huskily whispers: "save me!!". Maybe the premise just was too one-dimensional to carry it off for yet another or more seasons. This in combination with the lack of any spectacular visual effects may have done the trick.But on the whole I liked it a lot, it's very entertaining and I had a few fine weeks watching the whole box.

JoeyBagOfDonuts The show's not rocket science. It's got a simple, one issue/plot per episode. The cast is decent - again - not the worst group of actors (m/f) I've ever watched. It was a good way to spend an hour (or more if it's DVR'ed). I feel bad for Eliza though - it seems that her luck with shows where she holds the lead credit is... well, it's like someone has it out for her. Maybe jealousy? Who knows. All I know is - and the comparison is apples to oranges, but shows like (DWTS - a non-SyFy channel) keep running season after season, whereas shows like this are relegated to live the life of reruns. I gotta blame the American viewers though (and yes, I am an American) - their overall taste in entertainment is really slipping. And it's shows like this that get the bullet. I know the bottom line is $$$, but seriously people - compare television of today with what it was back in the 60's, 70's, 80's. I hate to say it, but shows, and the talent behind them were at a higher caliber than what you've got today. How much effort does it take to stick some camera's in some trailer trashes double wide, and broadcast their antics to the country? Not much. Hell, most middle school kids could probably pull it off. The whole 'give the people what they want' mentality has got to change. People will watch almost anything... as evidenced by shows like ... ... well, I'm not going to throw stones at anymore than I already have... And yes, I know I've demonstrated the tangent ability by this minor diatribe. So what? You get the message, right? I know YOU do.

I_saw_it_happen This show is hysterically bad. I don't think it was meant to be, but it is. I see that there's lots of praise being showered upon the show, and I honestly can't understand why--- this show is so poorly acted, the dialogue is so awful, and the plots are thin around their holes.I think that this show is interesting in that it is a definite litmus test of your standards. Some elements of the show work, and perhaps those elements are just more important to some people than those that don't work, which make the show nearly unwatchable to people like me.If you enjoy making fun of a show as you watch it, anticipating clichéd lines and such, this can be an enjoyable show to ridicule, if you have that sort of time on your hands.The pilot is a pretty fair example of the whole show. If the nonsense saccharin cliché ending doesn't leave you in a dumb shock, then this may be a show for you.