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Flashpoint
EMAILPRINTSERIES: CBS, Friday 10:00p (60 minutes)
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 15 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 33 votes
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Show Info
Genre(s): Action / Adventure, Crime, Drama
Created By:
Mark Ellis
Stephanie Morgenstern
First Air Date: July 11, 2008
Summary
Starring Enrico Colantoni, Hugh Dillon, David Paetkau, Amy Jo Johnson, and Gabriel Hogan
The Canadian series about a specialized unit used to dealing with urgent situations is based on the Emergency Task Force in Toronto.
Episode Guide & More Info: More about this show at TV.com
Also On The Web: Official Show Site (CBS) Official Show Site (CTV)
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Chicago Sun-TimesMisha Davenport
Though the characters on this show, premiering Friday on CBS, are relatable and watchable, the slow pace might prove to be too much of a cultural divide for an American audience used to the quick cuts and immediate resolve seen on American cop shows.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles TimesRobert Lloyd
It has an appealing modesty that survives its bouts of aesthetic overexcitement--the occasionally lurching camera, hammering soundtrack, the sentimental pop song laid over the last couple of minutes as the principals silently end a long, hard day.
Read Full Review >New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
It's more nuanced than the average cop drama, and for that reason, more intriguing.
Read Full Review >New York PostLinda Stasi
The best part of this show is the acting, which is generally excellent - particularly that of Hugh Dillon as Ed Lane, the conscience-riddled sharpshooter. Too bad the writing isn't as on-target as Lane's high-powered automatic.
Read Full Review >The New York TimesGinia Bellafante
Flashpoint lingers when it ought to speed up. It is a show about crisis that refuses to make you anxious.
Read Full Review >VarietyBrian Lowry
It's understandable why CBS would take its own low-risk shot with "Flashpoint" as summer filler. Yet as viewing experiences go, the series itself possesses so little flash, finally, that it's difficult to see the point.
Read Full Review >Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
It's not terrible, not great, just sort of so-so.
Read Full Review >Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin
If you can ignore stuff like the impossibly clean subways and the fact that the cops call one another ''constable'' with straight faces, Flashpoint is actually rather formulaic.
Read Full Review >PopMattersCynthia Fuchs
Flashpoint works through the distress and damage it lays out here, it gets points for beginning with the difficulty, not with the triumph. Now, if it can just figure a way beyond the scary perp clichés.
Read Full Review >NewsdayVerne Gay
The first half is tautly produced, before there's a dramatic--and dramatically dull--downshift that'll get you ready for beddy-bye.
Read Full Review >Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
It goes through the motions quite competently and respectably. But it is nonetheless merely re-creating crime-series moves we've all seen many times before, with only the faintest afterimage of originality.
Read Full Review >Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron
To be sure, Flashpoint is a perfectly competent police procedural right down to its convincing weaponry and tactics. However, based on the pilot, it isn't particularly fresh or inventive.
Read Full Review >Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall
The Flashpoint pilot is competent, but very retro (there's an extended sequence of the team driving to a crisis point with their sirens blaring, the sort of thing that went out 15 years ago) and fairly dull.
Read Full Review >Entertainment WeeklyAdam Markovitz
It's nice to have fresh scripted material on the summer TV menu, but after an hour of dull wisecracks and predictable plotting, reheated "Law & Order" leftovers start looking pretty tasty. [11 Jul 2008, p.66]]
Washington Post
If it had something truly new or provocative to say about such matters, the essential redundancy of Flashpoint could be overlooked--but it doesn't, and so it can't. These good guys are too good for their own good. And ours.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this show is 7.6 (out of 10) based on 33 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
cyrus t. gave it a10:
Very good, a very well done point of view of police.
mike d gave it a9:
I think it is a great show!! For the first time a canadian show that actually goes somewhere, the actinf isnt bad the police work is well done plus unlike some other police/swat show theyre missions arent some unreal rambo style cowboy stunts! Some people wont like it some will but I am a fan of police/military shows like that am i am very pleased! And being in the military I can say this isnt bullshit and some very realistic scenarios!! enjoy or dont but give it a chance!
snow cat gave it a10:
I love this show -- it is exciting, compelling, emotional, funny, and the acting is excellent. I hope it makes the next season, however i find not too many people have heard of it.
Kimberly S. gave it a10:
This show has a great combination of action and plot. The writers give us just enough insight into the character's personal lives without distracting from the action that drives the show.
Mike S. gave it a10:
This is amazingly realistic cop (SWAT) series that really deserves a chance. It's one of the best on tv at the moment, and all of these so called reviews are either completely wrong or completely ridiculous. "the slow pace might prove to be too much of a CULTURAL DIVIDE for an American audience used to the quick cuts and immediate resolve seen on American cop shows." That is one of the most idiotic things I've ever heard. I'm Canadian, but I actually feel offended myself as to how this critic insults the average American's intelligence and attention span. If you are into quality television at all, please do yourself a favor and check FLASHPOINT out.
Bob S. gave it a1:
This has got to be the dumbest fucking show ever. Decent acting from everyone except most of the Police who are the worst actors I have ever seen. The negotiator pisses me off the most. His 3rd rate acting and stupid face just kill the show. Good story combined with shitty acting kill this show.
corinne m. gave it a10:
This is a well thought out show. I am proud to know that it is a Canadian show. Being a fellow officer it is as realistic as you can get knowing that it needs to be pumped up for ratings.
