24: Complete Season 4

March 1, 2008 | By artblog In Artist |

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24: Complete Season 4
Hard to believe, but after all these years, 24 is as vital and compulsive as it always was. For this fourth series, the rules are still the same: all the action takes place in real time, and the series again follows a single day in the life of Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland).

Fortunately, Jack’s knack of attracting trouble hasn’t deserted him either, and quickly, it’s business as usual. Starting the series with a fresh romance, a different job and one heck of an explosion, it doesn’t take long before Jack is back in action, and he’s soon joined by a mixture of new and familiar faces.

To talk about the plot would be unfair, as 24 is consistently a dish best served cold. Suffice to say that there’s a heady mix of plotlines, twists and downright brilliant cliffhangers. Perhaps the cocktail isn’t as fresh as it once was, and there are moments where you can’t help but feel that plausibility is being stretched a little too far. But accepting that is part and parcel of the 24 experience, and arguably part of the fun.

That’s because even as it approaches its final stages, 24: Series 4 maintains a tremendous momentum and level of intrigue, and by the time the clock ticks for the last time at the end of the 24th episode, odds are you’ll be thirsting for more. Bluntly, in spite of its flaws, 24 remains one of the most essential shows currently on television–and this series offers ample evidence why.–Simon Brew

Customer Review: Jack should have called in sick
Although the plausibility of 24 is at times stretched, it is still fairly believable but in this season the plausibility is stretched way too far.

For example a terrorist shoots down air force 1 by impersonating a fighter pliot, getting past security then killing 1 guy in an aircraft hanger then manages to waltz out of the military base in a stealth bomber proceeding to shoot air force 1 down. Then the series just goes from one implausible situation to another, oh they have the football, oh Jack got it back but they’ve gone and nicked a nuke(season 2 anyone?) It seems the producers where just coming up with the biggest diasaster they could think of then trying to top it. Then even the ending to the terrorist threat is an anti-climax, the terrorist leader kills himself and puts 3 bullets in his PDA so CTU cannot find where the nuclear missle is heading but Chloe some how manages to pull the data from the PDA and the nuke gets shot down.

Then they’re are the subplots some of which are pointless like the story about the schizophrenic daughter. Other plots are just abandoned like the fate of President Keeler, oh he was the president but who cares? and the Araz lad. Its like the producers forgot about these plots whilst trying to come up a plot that somehow involves the Terminator to top the other disasters.

However its not all bad, it starts off well and the plot about the conflict between the Araz family is good, if only the producers explored that avenue more as that plot had so much more potential. The ending is also good and sets up 24 for season 5 which is a enormous improvement. Unfortunatly you have to watch season 4 or you won’t know half of what goes on in future episodes.

Customer Review: all that jack is missing is a cape with ctu on it
season 4 of the emmy award winning show once again decides against continuing on from where the previous season leaves off,i suppose that makes sense or else the show would be called 48 as in two days worth of events,this series kicks off 18 months after the events of series three and within the ctu and jack bauer there have been changes but they will all combine again as terrorists kidnap the secretary of defence along with his daughter and jack bauer heads up the rescue team.

Regular readers of my reviews and in particular the previous 24 reviews may well cry out that each analysis of 24 sounds the same,in some ways you are right,jack must save america from terrorists and the counter terrorist unit (ctu) are there to back him up and figure things out and try and stay ahead of the villain,but for all of that the tension is unrelenting and the twists are individual and the quality hasnt dropped yet.

Season 4 has a bigger budget than before and there is more action than before in my estimation,we also see just how far jack will go to save his country,the word patriot sums up jack indeed.

The series introduces new characters and some old faces grace the screen again,some will say that the show is too pro american and far too anti eastern europe and all of that,but be fair,this is television,drop a bit of reality here folks.

This is a glorious series,packed with punches and vitirol,its cagey,dramatic,sometimes funny,always edgy,could you want for more,seems here that some do,i dont.