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24 : Complete Season 1

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Binding : DVD
EAN : 5039036010047
Label : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Manufacturer : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Publisher : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Release date : 2002-10-14
Title : 24 : Complete Season 1
Actor : Array
Audience rating : Suitable for 15 years and over
Format : Array
Languages : Array
Number of items : 6
Region code : 2
Running time : 1106
Studio : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical releaseDate : 2001-11-06
Number of discs : 6

Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
Such a simple idea--yet so fiendishly complex in the execution. 24, as surely everyone knows by now, is a thriller that takes place over 24 hours, midnight to midnight, in 24 one-hour episodes (well, 45-minute episodes if you extract the ad breaks). Everything to take place in real time--on-screen and off-screen time the same--which means no flash-backs, no flash-forwards, no nice handy time-dissolves. Every strand of the plot has to be dovetailed and interlocked to make sure that things happen just when they should, in the right amount of time. Not that easy.

Creator Robert Cochran and his team of writers and directors have done a pretty impressive job in putting the jigsaw together and keeping the tension ratcheted up high, as Federal Agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) hares around LA trying to stall an assassination attempt on a black Presidential candidate and rescue his wife and daughter from the clutches of the Balkan baddies. Twists, turns, revelations and cliffhangers are tossed at us with satisfying regularity. It’s not perfect: we get some hokey plot devices (instant amnesia, anybody?) and the final twist, once you start thinking back, makes no sense whatsoever. There are altogether too many huggy family moments ("I love you, Dad." "I love you, son"); and as for überbaddie Dennis Hopper’s "Serbian" accent…

Even so, this is undeniably mould-breaking TV. Sutherland, rescuing his career from the doldrums in one heroic leap, fully deserves his Golden Globe. Sets and locations are artfully deployed--we gain a real sense of LA’s splayed-out geography--and Sean Callery’s score is a powerful, brooding presence. Like Murder One and The Sopranos, 24 is one of those series future TV thrillers will have to measure themselves against.

On the DVDs: 24 is released in a six-disc box set. On discs 1- 5 there are no extras, but disc 6 includes the "alternative" ending and a preview of Series 2, presented by an urbane Kiefer Sutherland, that tells us precisely nothing. The transfer, in 16x9 widescreen and 2.0 Dolby Digital sound, does the high production values of the original every justice.--Philip Kemp

DVD Description
DVD Special Features:

Alternate Ending
Season 2 Preview
Subtitles: English for the hearing impaired
Original aspect ratio: 16x9 widescreen
Sound Quality: Dolby Digital 2.0

Synopsis
Follow 24 hours in the life of federal agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) in this innovative television series. Consisting of 24 hour-long episodes, the show uses split screens and a 'real-time' clock to tell a tense interweaving story that involves Bauer, his wife (Leslie Hope) and daughter (Elisha Cuthbert), a presidential candidate (Dennis Haysbert) targeted for assassination, and many others. This set includes every episode of the thrilling first season.

Customer reviews

review by: gaming king date: 2008-08-29 rating:

Are you dumb Jack!!!
Well for quite a while i have seen 24 all over the tv but i dared not watch it incase it ruined the whole show even though i had no plans to watch it.

Soon enough i stumbled across the season 1 dvd and took the dip of buying it and i loved it. It was so addicting that when i got it in the post, i popped the disc in the player quickly to see a bit of the first episode.

My name is ******* ****** and this was the longest day of my life!

The sofa had a few dents in it once i finished watching it all in one go i was ready to die i was so tired (don't know how the people on the show do it!) but what a great series. Sure parts of the plot may be un-realistic but you do have to take into account that it still is a tv show and how boring would the show be if it was 100% realistic!

24 had minor things that annoyed me, such as Kim's ability to do nothing apart from escape at the end. (SPOILER!)

To find out who the 2nd mole was in the end scared me, i really could'nt belive it. Bad and good, like sweet and sour sauce i did'nt know what to think. hmmmmmmm.....

I hated the fact that jack's wife got amnesia, that was just damn annoying. And i know that this sounds stupid but when Jack was trying to get away from the police why did'nt he just hide in a bush? I mean he had loads of good opputunities. Whatever.

Great series although at (some?) points unrealistic.

review by: date: 2008-01-24 rating:

Fatuous Ending
I watched this avidly, all the episodes, and concluded that the ending was written by someone who just did not see or read the scripts for the previous episodes. Nobody who watched the whole show had any chance of working out who the mole was.
I was so disappointed with this that I have not watched it since and am amazed that it got a second let alone a third series.

review by: date: 2008-01-07 rating:

Great concept, just loses some steam in the middle
24 is a thrilling tv series, set over 24 episodes, each representing an hour within one day. It stars Kiefer Sutherland who excels in his role as Jack Bauwer.

The story follows Jack, who works for CTU (the Counter Terrorist Unit) as he tries to stop an assasination attempt on a presidential candidate. What follows are twists and turns as Jack's family are caught up in the action.

The series, on the whole, is excellent. It has many great aspects, the Palmer political story is captivating, as is the Jack Bauwer thread. I felt the mother / daughter side was the weakest. It really was short on ideas and treads a lot of the same ground and reaches absurdness with the events following the car on the cliff.

From there on it picks up to a great climax.

You have to invest a lot of time into this series, many episodes will pass where you learn little, or few significant events happen. On the whole I think it's worth it. If your a fan of thrillers or Kiefer, this is a must.

review by: stevem802002 date: 2007-12-25 rating:

Ground breaking television
without doubt 24 is one of the most gripping concepts in television - i cant really see how anyone can give this 1 star - yes after 12 hours it gets a bit silly with mrs bauer getting amnesia - is laughable and frustrating, but apart from this and one or two other imperfections, season 1 of 24 is essential viewing. Ive just watched season 2 which imo is better than season one - feels more solid and less silly bits in it.

i missed the original tv broadcast of this, this is essential. buy it now, jack knows where u live if u dont!

review by: Jake M. Cochrane date: 2007-11-16 rating:

The finest series ever created for television
There is no doubt that the original series of "24" is by far the most gripping and addictive series ever created for television. Following the life of Kiefer Sutherland's fantastic character Jack Baure is extrodinary and terrifying. Of course there are others, there is the presidential candidate David Palmer (Dennis Haysbert) who is attempting to become the first black American President, and also has a Serbian assassination attempt in the next twenty-four hours of the day. It is Baure's task to stop the terrorists with help of the CTU, but in the mean time, he must try and save his daughter, Kimberly (Elisha Cuthbert) - and eventually his wife, Teri - from the assassins.

It works as a quid-pro-quo. The terrorists want Jack's help to get information on the candidate, for exchange of his wife and daughter's life. Helping Jack Baure along the way are Nina Myers (Sarah Clarke) and Tony Almeida (Carlos Bernard), among the whole CTU team. But it is made clear that some of the people that Jack is working with, have connections with the terrorist group and are feeding them information. Baure cannot trust anybody, not even the people he works with, in order to find his wife and daughter, plus save a near-President.

It is a unique series. And it's so gripping, unbelieveably gripping. I found myself watching 4-5 episodes a day with the boxset, and could literally not get enough of the action-filled series. It is by far the greatest of all the "24" series', and with a fantastic price here on Amazon.co.uk, I would fully reccommend buying this.

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