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- CTV
- Jul 11, 2008
- CTV
- Jul 11, 2008
Summary Flashpoint is an emotional journey following the lives of members of the SRU (Strategic Response Unit) as they solve hostage situations, bust gangs, and defuse bombs. They work by utilizing their training to get inside the heads of these people in order to make them reach their breaking point (aka their flashpoint). Sgt. Gregory Parke...
- CTV
- Jul 11, 2008
- CTV
- Jul 11, 2008
Summary Flashpoint is an emotional journey following the lives of members of the SRU (Strategic Response Unit) as they solve hostage situations, bust gangs, and defuse bombs. They work by utilizing their training to get inside the heads of these people in order to make them reach their breaking point (aka their flashpoint). Sgt. Gregory Parke...
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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7% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
93% Mixed
14 Reviews
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
50
7% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
93% Mixed
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
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.
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.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 24 User Ratings
9.2
92% Positive
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8% Mixed
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0% Negative
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User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 24 User Ratings
9.2
92% Positive
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
8% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
0% Negative
0 Ratings
0 Ratings
One of the best cop shows ever on TV. How doe you get a 5.1 go tell that to the millions of viewres on the FIRST episode. One of the best quotes in the show " SLOW IS SMOOTH, SMOOTH IS FAST, FAST IS LETHAL"- THE TEAM
Also better than CRIMINAL MINDS where you got a serial killer every episode killing close to 15 people a week where FLASHPOINT is more realistic and actually shows human factors rather than serial killer dies all the time.
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SEASON 1
Absolutely Fantastic, this show has had me and my husband who usually does not watch TV enthralled
and usually in tears ! Thanks payTV for screening this when the ridiculous commercial stations wouldn't
(thats you Channel 9 Australia, with your rubbish shows!!!)
This is a 5* production.
Thank you Canada for a little jewel
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SEASON 1
Flashpoint lingers when it ought to speed up. It is a show about crisis that refuses to make you anxious.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Best police procedural ever. Excellent dialogues and situations. No cartoonish flares or empty characters, but real people doing a real job and feeling the consequences. Those who say US viewers would find it too slow, polemic or emotional might rethink that maybe that is exactly what US audiences are hungry for after the networks turned to empty schlock and pretty is as pretty does characters with no real brains involved! And Rico, what can I say... between Keith Mars and Greg Parker, I am a married straight man with a huge man-crush!
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SEASON 1
Hi, I am from the Philippines and I just finished watching season 4 of flashpoint. I love the show so much that i felt so sad to know that Season 5 will be its last season. All the characters and the actors who played them are all great, they are all amazing. I felt really bad when the two original characters were removed from the series. I love so dearly the characters of Sam and Jules. They look so great together. I like Spike so much as well, he is so lovable. I admire so much the characters of Ed and the Boss Greg. I hope to possess the leadership skills they have. Flashpoint is not like any other TV Series about cops works, its more than that. Its human side of the story made its audience so much part of the show to the extent that you feel everything that is going on in the show. I am actually freaked out that Season 5 will be its finale. I do hope and pray that the show will continue because it gives not only a good show but a remarkable one. I want to say thank you to the producers and all other persons behind the scenes who worked hard for the show and I want to say thank you to the cast for making me cry at the end of every episodes because it showed how much all of you became part of my life......More power to the casts...
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SEASON 1
I stopped watching this series
Because by manipulating the feelings of viewers
Turn the facts
Makes the correct error
In the series who wishes to father and mother of the child re-
What was the role of the rescue unit
The destruction of the whole family
Is this the role of this series to change people's view
That the police were responsible for destruction rather than protection
My message to the product
Look for a professional writer My family and I do not want to see the police as criminals
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