24 - Season Four 2001 Starring Kiefer Sutherland Sarah Clarke Dennis Haysbert Elisha Cuthbert Leslie Hope

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24 - Season Four

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Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: December 2005
UPC: 024543217800
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Tagline: To the world, he's dead. But soon, he'll become the most wanted man alive (Season 5)

Plot Outline: CTU agent Jack Bauer has to race the clock to handle both a presidential candidate assassination plot and his daughter's kidnapping, while dealing with a mole inside the agency.

Plot Synopsis: In this concept drama, each season takes place within one 24 hour period. Jack Bauer is the head of an elite team of CIA agents who uncover an assassination plot targeting Presidential nominee David Palmer. Meanwhile, Jack's strained marriage to his wife, Teri, is pushed to the brink by the sudden disappearance of their troubled teenage daughter. What will the next 24 hours hold?

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I am sorry but only an idiot gives this season 5 stars...

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Let me state for the record:

Seasons 1 and 3 are deserving of five stars, this is barely deserving the one star minimum.

This season introduces new plot threads but drags them through the mud for a few episodes and moves to the next without bothering to tie up the loose ends. Many new characters are simply uninteresting and deserve less screen time than they recieve. Plus, how many seasons are going to feature Arab terrorists trying to nuke the US....I guess this is an easy plot for the average American to swallow, but lets try for some originality please.

Plus, can we pick a plot thread and stick to it?

Never disappionting

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I feel this is one of the all time best TV series ever created. I am always amazed on how intriguing and well-crafted all the episodes tend to be. You never feel like the writing, acting & direction is ever just going through the motions. Season 4 is no exception. Although it's not the best season of 24, it is certainly very good. Always leaving you wanting more and on the edge of your seat. The deleted scenes are unnecessary and I recommend you skip them all together when you're watching an episode for the first time. There was good reason for editing them out. The kind of ruin some scenes all-together.

Absurd. Total suspension of disbelief required.

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Beware - spoilers below.

Curiously, 24 is a show that suffers on DVD (but I prefer watching any show in this format, without waiting for weeks and being capable of deciding when to watch them). Why does it suffer? Because the concept of real time action is seriuosly hurt when we watch the episodes back to back wihtout the week-long intervals. The plot holes and absurdity of it all became much more clear to the viewer.

Anyway, Season Four reached the bottom of the barrel in the plot recordind the defense contractor company. Man, that was the most ludicrous history they ever wrote in 24... In order to not get cuaght and to not have bad publicity overt heir business, the company's directors are capable of having squads and more squads of hired killers and decide to use them to kil Federal agents and torture a civilian and, after this fails, tehy decide to use an eltromagnetic bomb to destroy all computers and electronic devices around, once again in front of the federal agent (bauer). Both course of action would not only incriminate the company and generate bad publicity (which was what they were trying to avoid in the first place)but would terminate the company forever and put al the board of director in jail forever!!! This was, I repeat, one of the most absurd plots in all 24 seasons and in all modern TV shows!

ADDICTIVE!	Customer Rating:
Amazingly entertaining! I admit I became a fan because I had to wait 2 weeks for DirectTV to be installed and had no choice but to watch DVD's. I picked up Season 2 and became hooked. Then came Season 1,3,4 & 5. For 2 weeks I was addicted to this exciting show. I can't wait for the new season!

24 Goes Over the Top (and not in a good way)

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***** Acting
**** Directing
**** DVD Extras
* Plot

24 is a great show but even great shows have their bad seasons. To enjoy this show you must suspend all disbelief. The season begins with an train crash. It turns out that someone on the train has a device that can comprimise every nuclear power plant in the nation.

Jack Bauer has been forced out of CTU and now works for the Secretary of Defense and is sleeping with his daughter, Audrey. The Secretary sends Jack to CTU while he deals with his renagade son. While at his son's he and his daughter are kidnapped by terrorists and put on trial. Trial and his execution are to be broadcast on the internet.

Jack is pressed into service. Using his renegade style, he rescues his boss and girlfriend. But it turns out, that the kidnapping was just a cover. The terrorists were behind the train bombing and used the intert surge to hack into the nuclear power plant computers and use the override device to melt down the power plants.

Jack finds out that one of the terrorists worked on the device at the defense contractor. Jack and Audrey's husband, Paul, go to the defense contractor to see if they can get a thread on the terrorists. The defense contractor agrees to cooperate but decide that it is not in their best interest. Once Paul finds something, not only does the contractor send assassins in to kill Jack and Paul but mount an EMP that wipes out all electrical devices for 8 square miles.

Jack escapes with the information unscathed but Paul is shot pushing Jack out of the way.

One nuclear plant melts down in California but eventually, CTU is able to save the other 107. But this was a cover too. The real target was Air Force One.

The terrorists have arranged to have a mercenary steal a stealth bomber to shoot down Air Force One. CTU uncovers this in time but cannot stop the stealth bomber and Air Force One is shot down. The good news is the President is safe but hurt. The bad news is that this is attack was a cover too. The terrorists were after the Nuclear Football, a briefcase that can detonate all the US's nuclear bombs.

Oh, and did I mention that the terrorist just happened to steal a one of the largest nuclear warheads. Now Jack must find the terrorist behind the attacks to stop the detonation.

Cloe gets a lead on someone involved with the latest attack which leads to a Chinese nuclear scientist. But he is at the Chinese consulate and they will not give him up. So Jack is authorized to kidnap him. During the kidnapping the consulate gets killed by friendly fire.

Now this is just the highlights. I didn't mention that Tony is out of jail and Michelle has left him but they are forced to work together in this crisis. Or that the Vice President proves to be incompetent and blows the arrest of the lead terrorist.

For all this to happen, the US intellegence would have to be incompetent. This is five major attacks that all have to happen in order for everything to happen. That is everyone but Jack has to be incompetent.

Lets start with the train. These are not government agents but employees of the a very powerful company with vast resources. But this does not make sense, with a device so important, the company would use one of its corporate jets or helicopters, not a public train (that is so 50's!)

Next, the kidnapping and trial of the Secretary happened within a few hours. In the morning when most people would be at work or school. Therefore, all this internet activity would be unlikely. It takes time for an event like this to happen.

And then, a company my try to hide illegal activity but to fry every electrical device within miles. But this would be hard to cover and the law suits from this would sink any company. Let alone the criminal charges.

Well enough of the over the top writing.

I do have to say that the acting in this is five star. Keifer is great as usual but Cloe (Mary Lynn Rajskub) comes to life in this episode. Alberta Walker is the lastest casualty as the new head of CTU. Alberta is great but Erin Driscoll is no Madeline (La Femme Nikita). Carlos Bernard and Rieko Aylesworth make the best out the mush they are given and prove that good actors can rise above mediocre writing. (Actually, everytime I see Rieko in any show (from SVU to ER), I realize that she is a hidden gem!)

If you are a die hard fan of 24 then buy this set, if you are a casual admirer then buy if you get a great deal.

Basically, a great cast in an absurd plot.

DVD EXTRAS:

As usual, the extras are really great including the Season 4 and Season 5 prequels (Or bridge). But it would be better to put these great extras where they belong. At the beginning of Disc 1 and the end of Disc 6, so they flow with what we are watching.

I love watching deleted scenes and this has a lot of them. And they are great. I also love having director commentary and usually watch them twice (once with commentary and then without). But with this many scenes it would take over 2 hours to do this. In future, I would suggest that Cassar just give a brief explanation before each scene - and also have a Play All option.

Also, they have the 24 minutesodes. A promo that is totally seperate from the series but is linked to the initial plot line. (Based on unnessecary Chinese plotline and this. I get a feeling that Keifer was in contract negotiations and the producers were testing this guy as a possible replacement.)

Also included are feaurettes on the series and aspects of the series. As usual, these are outstanding.