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80Besides its surefire pacing and startling moments, "Invasion" features a promising cast.
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70A slick production.
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70[It has] a tick-tick-tick pace almost as intense as that of 24.
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70An effective and well-wrought drama, with enough cinematic flair and energy to paper over some of its more obvious faults.
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63"E-Ring" is sometimes kind of silly, sometimes tightly drawn, and sometimes it's fun.
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60We don't really learn anything new about the military or its operations, of course, but with the slick scenes and snappy one-liners coming in rapid succession, who really cares?
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50The half-tense dramatic payoff is a pleasant surprise, but the bluster -- oh, the bluster and machismo are palpable.
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50Anyone who saw Team America, the movie send-up of all things Bruckheimerian, will find E-Ring hard to take too seriously. [24 Oct 2005, p.41]
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50It pulsates with the requisite flash and dash we've come to expect of a Bruckheimer outing, in this case rather like "JAG" on steroids. But at the end of the day it rings emotionally hollow.
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40Hopper [is] so misfitted for this role that he seems perversely perfect.
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38With each misstep, E-Ring becomes more ridiculous.
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30The unarguable truth of E-Ring's central premise -- that America's national-security bureaucracy probably spends as much time in intramural squabbles as it does fighting terrorism or rogue states -- does not make it any better drama.
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30Remember those scenes on "The West Wing" when the Joint Chiefs assemble in the "situation room" to tackle some faraway threat? Reprise the tension with none of the intelligence, inject flag-waving machismo and high-tech imagery, and what's left is this Jerry Bruckheimer drama.
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30Unfortunately, despite an interesting pair of lead actors, ''E-Ring" is stubbornly conventional and bland.
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25The network may feel that Bratt could stand there, read the phone book and attract millions of adoring female fans. Starring in "E-Ring" may be the closest thing to finding out whether that's true.
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25"E-Ring" is boring.
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20As the mission's race against time ticks down, "E-Ring" thinks it's got you by the throat, and that's true, because you feel like you're being led around on a leash.
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20More proof that even Jerry Bruckheimer can spit out barely watchable productions.
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20Overcooked and preposterous to the point of being laughable.
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20Both tonight's opening episode and next week's installment are predictable, loaded with cliched dialogue and lacking in the tension you want in this kind of show.
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10Chest-pounding [and] inept.
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10Interesting and exciting only when no one's saying anything, which isn't very often.
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10[A] surprisingly brain-dead series.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 78 out of 84
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Mixed: 1 out of 84
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Negative: 5 out of 84
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RobN.10Awesome show, bring it back soon!
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RichardK.10Its one off the best series I ever Sean.
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MaggieL.10So disappointing that such a great show was taken off the air. Perhaps it told the truth too well.