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24 - Season One
Product Group: DVD
Studio: Fox Network
ISBN: B00005JLF2
Brand: 24
EAN: 0024543054160
UPC: 024543054160
DVD
Region Code: 1
Running Time: 1152 minutes
Original Release Date: 2002-01-01
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Release Date: 2002-09-17
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
SKU: 42179
Condition: Collectable Like New
Comments: THE ORIGINAL DVD SET FOR SEASON ONE, 2001, 2002. COMES 6 DISCS. A GREAT GIFT SET! DVD'S AND BOX ARE BRAND NEW! SEALED IN A SLIPCASE. RAPID SHIPPING. PRIORITY AIR MAIL.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Twenty-four hours of a counter-terrorist agent's attempt to prevent the assassination of a presidential candidate.
Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 17-SEP-2002
Media Type: DVD
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Such a simple idea--yet so fiendishly complex in the execution. 24, as surely everyone knows by now, is a thriller that takes places over 24 hours, midnight to midnight, in 24 one-hour episodes (well, 45-minute episodes if you subtract the commercials). Everything takes place in real time, which means no flashbacks, no flash-forwards, no handy time-dissolves. Every strand of the plot has to be dovetailed and interlocked so 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 an impressive job of putting the jigsaw together and keeping the tension ratcheted up high, as federal agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) runs around L.A. trying to stall an assassination attempt on an African American 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?); the final twist makes no sense whatsoever; there are altogether too many huggy family moments; and as for Dennis Hopper's "Serbian" accent.... Even so, this is undeniably mold-breaking TV. Sutherland, rescuing his career from the doldrums in one heroic leap, fully deserves his Golden Globe. Sets and locations are artfully deployed, and Sean Callery's score is a powerful, brooding presence. Like Murder One and The Sopranos, 24 is one of those series that future TV thrillers will be measured against. --Philip Kemp
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Customer Reviews
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Gaping plot holes you could drive a bus through
Rating  (2)
Date: 2008-12-04
Sucked in by all the hype, plus the fact this is now (as I write this) into Season SEVEN, I thought I'd give this a whirl.
It starts at midnight. By 2am I was already irritated by Jack's wife and daughter, two insipid characters played by two of the worst female 'actresses' in TV history. Are they in some way related to the producers? I think we should be told.
By 4am I was starting to be annoyed as to how stupid the whole premise was. Trying to summarise the convoluted, complex and idiotic scheme dreamed up by the terrorists to simply kill the senator is irritating me even more. Suffice to say, the whole thing depends on Jack Bauer's teenage daughter sneaking out of her room at night to meet up with a couple of stoned teenage youths in a van, who have been paid to kidnap her. What would have happened if she'd just decided to stay at home instead? The whole plot would have failed, and we'd be 23 hours and 55 minutes short of a series!
By 7am I was shouting at the TV screen, to the goodies, the baddies, everybody. "Why are you doing that, you idiot? Just do this!" Characters behave in the most stupid and nonsensical manner, purely to set up a cliff-hanger ending for the next episode. Good grief - even the original Batman series was more plausible than this!
By 11am I was exhausted by all the ludicrous plot twists and character changes. Goodies become baddies, baddies become goodies, and bit part support characters change from simpering lovebirds to rabid nutters,and back again, all in the space of a few hours.
By 1pm I was fast-forwarding through the 'soapy' scenes, where embarrassingly bad actors spouted even worse banal dialogue to each other - the senator and his ridiculous son (who looks nothing like him and is about a third of his height), the senator and his wife, Jack's wife and Jack's daughter, Jack's wife and Jack ... "I love you" "I love you too" "I was never there for you, but I'm here for you now..." blah blah blah...
By 3pm even the action scenes were getting dull. Oh look, here's Jack again, driving off at high speed in yet another vehicle... Oh crikey, he's crashed! Oh no, the baddies have got him... again! The man gets through about 50 forms of transport, all in one day - and never once gets held up in traffic!
By 5pm I hate the goodie characters so much I'm rooting for the baddies. "Go on... shoot them! For God's sake! Do us all a favour!" Jack's wife is the worst of the lot, a strange scrawny individual who stumbles around weeping most of the time, showing all the emotional range of a Thunderbirds puppet - gawky, uncoordinated and with wide staring eyes too big for her head. This is fine when she's supposed to be suffering from memory loss and doesn't know who she is or where she is... but she's like this right from the word go! A more irritating character would be hard to find... although her teenage daughter - shoehorned into the mess purely to keep adolescent boys happy - comes very very close. She does a great line in stupid sullen petulance, and most of the time you're wishing somebody would give her a good slap.
By 7pm I'm realising I'm just a few hours from the end, so I skipped through the last five episodes in barely one hour... and didn't miss a trick!
It was a relief when it was over. In total it occupied about eight hours of my life. I wish it had only been eight seconds.
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Thank Goodness for Torture
Rating  (3)
Date: 2008-11-25
The first season was fun. The concept for "24" a novel, exciting one. No other season since was as good. The downside is that "24" helped the public get used to the idea that torture is a vital necessity for saving American lives -- an idea which most experts in the real world intelligence community overwhelmingly disagree. In effect, this television program has been successful propaganda for the rightwing and Bush Administration (regardless of what any actor may think of his role or makers of a TV show claim).
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Congratulations Barack Obama!!!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-11-06
When I found out that Barack Obama is going to be our first African-American President, I thought about this season of 24, because Barack is now the real David Palmer! The 24 hour time period takes place during the presidential primary. At midnight, Jack Bauer's daughter runs away from home, and around that time, he has been called in to CTU because a threat has been made on David Palmer's life. Throughout the day, Jack has to stop bad guys, find his kidnapped wife and daughter, deal with betrayal, try to stay awake, and save David Palmer. When I was new to this show, it was around the time the 5th season was starting, so I finished this season and watched that season. Since then, I'm a huge fan of 24! If you love action, suspense, and heroes, you'll love 24: DAY ONE!!!
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Where Have I Been All These Years?
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-10-18
It only took me-oh- SIX years to finally watch this show. And the only reason I watched it was because the first 5 episodes of Season 1 were on Veoh TV. It was the weekend and I was in the house with nothing to do. "Why not?" I tell myself. And let me tell you by the time I watched the 5th free episode, I made it my mission to find out how I was going to watch the rest of the season. Veoh only had those five shows so I had to look everywhere to find the rest of the season. Lots of thrills and actions. Once one episode goes off, you have to watch the next one because its so full of suspense! How I missed this show since 2001 is beyond my belief. I even played the game on PS2 last year before I watched the show. The game is just like the show!
Way to go 24! Keifer Sutherland has just become my favorite actor.
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Hollywood Dumb
Rating (2)
Date: 2008-10-14
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
As Jack says in the show, 'This is the longest day of my life.' I would add it is the longest day of stupid Hollywood TV I've ever seen.
It is ok if characters in a story make errors in judgment, that happens in real life. What I can't stand is error in logic by the script writers. There are so many stupidities in this script, I don't know where to begin. For one, the terrorists use two teenage buffoons in a van as a crucial part of the plot to kidnap Jack's daughter, and it hinges on her making the choice to crawl out her bedroom window to meet these boys. What if she changed her mind, the whole plot would have collapsed?!!?
Part of the plot is also to kidnap Jack's wife, which they do when she is out looking for her daughter, in a really round about way. Why did they not wait for Jack to leave, as they knew he would, then send in the heavies to take both daughter and wife in one step? Why??? Because it is stupid TV, the reason I stopped watching broadcast TV 25 years ago!! I thought this would be intelligent like 'The Wire' or 'The Sopranos', but no ... I should not have wasted my money, or 24 hours of my time.
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