“Person of Interest” was on after “Big Bang Theory” so I gave it a shot. The premise is really implausible (that a computer model can monitor an entire city and predict things like murders). I’d have much rather that they just explained it away by saying that whathisname (Linus from “Lost”) was able to read into the future. But, okay, I’ll toss that aside and try to pretend I buy it.
Some comments:
Jim Caveziel is distractingly handsome, but a good actor. However, even he cannot pull off the superpower act. Army Rangers/Navy Seals are really skilled, I get that, but they’re human. Being able to maim (and not kill) four or five heavily armed guys in the span of a few seconds? Tone down the testosterone, please.
The storyline in this episode was rather weak, I thought. I didn’t have time to flesh out, or care about, any of the characters so when they were going to off the male DA, I didn’t really care much. It’ll be better when they have time to develop characters, such as the black detective or the red-headed cop.
How is it that he shot the red-headed cop so many times without killing him? Did he have a bullet proof jacket on?
Jim Caveziel’s character isn’t just Army trained; Finch referred to the guys’s time with “the agency” so think more Jason Bourne than Rambo. So expect that level of super-bad-assery.
Before he shot the cop, he asked him if he was wearing his vest. So he shot the shit out of him, knowing he’d live but letting him claim he was assaulted and left for dead.
I enjoyed it well enough and will watch at least a couple more episodes.
Hero tells Future Source Cop that hero killed the baddie using FSC’s gun, and thus he has a permanent hold on FSC. Yes?
Then he sticks the body in the trunk of FSC’s car and tells him to dispose of it.
Wha? You hand your piece of leverage to the person you want to use it against?
Dumb, dumb, dumb.
I liked the actors well enough, but the story is lame and the premise more than I can swallow.
Plus there was way too much dialog that involved one of leads telling the other things both must already know. For example, hero sneaks his cell phone into the backpack of the brother of the framed black guy. So ex-Lost guy tells him, “You can use the GPS on your phone to follow the kid.” Well, duh! Why the hell else did Hero put the phone there?
All in all, I’m out. Unless I start hearing a lot of people saying future episodes are good.
Saving people who don’t know they need to be saved is a pretty good premise - and could make for some good shows. Will continue to watch to see how it progresses.
I don’t know the names, but that guy from Lost who created the program annoys me - why does he always have to look off in the distance when speaking? It’s like a crappy soap opera where someone will look wistfully out the window and admit they raped the daughter, killed the Mayor, stole the money and kicked the dog.
Look at them! Stop looking off at some non-existent sunset!
I actually liked it and will continue watching it (unlike the horrible Playboy Club). Yeah, there is a fair amount of suspension of disbelief about the super computer and SSNs, but I can look past that. I thought the story was interesting with all of the exposition they had to do as a pilot. They also planted enough things to question to keep me interested: Why did finch limp? Why did he say that he was dead, too, or that everyone thought he was dead? What happened to John’s girlfriend? Is Taraji P. Henson’s character going to be an enemy or a reluctant ally?
I took the strange eyelines to be a result of Jim Caviezel always being standing of somewhere odd in relation to him and his injury making it difficult for him to turn his head (there was a scene the really emphasized that where he has to turn his whole body to look at Caviezel behind him.
The gimmickry to explain how they get the SSN with absolutely no other information is a stretch (fine, you need to transmit a very small amoutn of information so that they don’t notice, but couldn’t you go so far as to put in a 10th character to indicate whether the person is a victim or a perpetrator? Maybe an 11th alphanumeric code to indicate the general nature of the crime. And a 12th to indicate a general timeframe. Heck you could comprobably compress that all down to a single ASCII character if you wanted).
But swallowing that implausibility the resulting set up could be fun. For TV the action choreography was decent, and so I’ll give it a few more episodes to shake out.
Though I wanted Ben to explain that they had Caviezel’s file on the island which is why he knew so much about him.
I liked it; I’ll continue watching for at least a couple more episodes based on one single scene - when John Reese is stealing the guns, he asks the guys if they’ve had gun safety courses. Then he looks at one guy holding the gun sideways in the usual idiotic gangbanger way, and tells him, “No, I can see you haven’t. Look at this guy, holding the gun sideways. You can’t aim like that, and it will eject the casing right into your face!” Two thumbs way up just for that!
I thought it was mindless fun. Acting was good, and they gave us a nice shakeup on expectations when the bad guy ended up being exactly who we thought it wouldn’t be. Very good action scenes. And, I always enjoy these ninja like super spy characters.
I’ll keep it on my list to watch, and if they are all as good as this one I’ll enjoy it. I hope it lasts.
Oh neat. I just looked it up on Wikipedia. Did not realize the creator was Christopher Nolan’s brother. (Writer of Memento.) That makes me even more excited about the show. I’ve liked his previous work.
I thought it was a lot of fun to watch and had no trouble suspending my considerable disbelief. After all, our hero is so hunky… However, how long it holds my intererest will probably depend on how well the characters are developed.
I thought it was a supremely stupid premise further degraded by hammy acting and some terribly unbelievable action scenes. I made it about 3/4 through before I realized I couldn’t take anymore.
