Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Diagonaldi Very well executed

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

SnoopyStyle There is a plot to kill the president. Apparently the way to do it is to fly a plane into the President's son's birthday party. Then there's the wormhole. So many things wrong. Why would flying a plane into an open area be effective? This thing went wrong right from the start.Sean Walker (Jason Ritter) is on the hunt for his kidnapped girl Leila Buchanan (Sarah Roemer) after she disappeared on a trip. This is the most interesting storyline for me and the most disappointing. Jason Ritter is pretty good. But let's just say that Sarah Roemer lack the acting skills. I tried hard to defend her at the beginning. She's real pretty to look at, but not much else. She is the most infuriating character, and that storyline totally frustrated me. The rest is just a jumble of wild sci-fi writings. At some point, I didn't care about any of it. One season was definitely more than enough.

Melina Taccone I first saw the first episode of The Event a few years back. I remember that from the first seconds I was anxious to know how everything would turn out. With more than one nightmare scenario you can't help to consider yourself in the scenarios, which is a terrifying feeling. Every episode ends with a tremendously exciting cliffhanger. Every time the credit started I so amazed, but still so angry that I had to wait another week to see what the hell would happen. The Event is a, almost too good, TV-series. I'm amazed that it only got one season. It reminds me a little bit of a horror movie, actually, but with a really great story line and more realistic scenarios. I usually don't like Sci-Fi, but this is so much more than that. This is political. This is love. This is a story about people trying to find home and reunite with their families. This is The Event.

frenchmonkeys I watched this through for the first time now in 2012, and was thoroughly disappointed to learn there would be no more to follow.I enjoyed it immensely - a 24esque political terrorism thriller, but with the twist that here the terrorists are aliens, and their motivations are conflicted - we move from being sympathetic to their plight, to being completely horrified by them and cheering on those who wish to incarcerate/exterminate them. The way it builds, drawing an ordinary person into playing a pivotal role in such an incredible plot is done thoughtfully and believably. Unlike other sci-fi shows, the main focus is on the pace of the action, the unfolding of the complex, twisty-turny plot, and personalities of the main protagonists: the flashy, gimmicky effects used in other shows to hide the limited strength of the plot are missing here.Where alien technology is shown, it is done so carefully, and shows that it has very real limits, but still manages to terrify with the potential outcomes.I wish there was more to come - I want to know more about what happened in the past, and what will happen in the future, and the roles of the guardians, etc.The only thing that made me cringe was at the last minute when a planet was drawn to become Earth's neighbour. Everyone felt a bit of a shaky ground and windows. However, if an object so massive was drawn so close to the Earth, that would be a global destruction event in itself - the new gravitational effect against the earth would cause tidal waves, earthquakes, etc. as water and molten lava were attracted towards it, but sine it also wasn't spinning and had no apparent kinetic energy, it's motion once it got there would be difficult to predict - would it crash into the earth, the moon, as it took up a new orbit of its own, or with no apparent existing forces acting upon it, would it just start on a straight trajectory for the sun, messing up the orbit of the moon and the earth as it did so (still pulling on them with its own gravity). Hmmm. Anyway....That colossal guff ignored, I'd still love to see more of it. I don't understand how shows with such a brilliant story, well-portrayed, and well-liked, are dumped in favour of crap viewing. So unfortunate. Still, if you haven't already seen this, go get it on DVD and you won't be disappointed.

viva_ron_paul Overall, the acting was descent, filming and writing were alright. But, if you follow the whole series, you'll see that it gets progressively and obtusely fantastic. Normally people would think this is a good thing. More drama, more action, more nail biting suspense. How can you go wrong? Well - there's this little thing called a budget. You got to have a balance of producible scenarios and ideas.The show ultimately ended with a whole alien world (plus it's moon) transported close to Earth. The agenda then was that, they were then going to take over our planet. Now, how are you going to be able to keep up with the scenario that follows - on a budget. YOU CAN'T! The whole show was nothing more than a ratings magnet. Unfortunately, in today's world, it's all shows tend to be. A short lived event, draw in as many masses for a short spell. WHICH IS WHY - I now tend to watch "t.v." on the internet. Honestly, just found out this week about this show and decided to watch the whole thing, marathon style.Since the networks no longer show any loyalty to its viewers, I sure as hell aren't going to give them any in return. Why would you?