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Target is pure, utter, ridiculous, over-the-top-into-the-ravine entertainment.
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Fox’s Human Target is the closest thing on TV to swigging a keg of Red Bull. It’s one hour of pure energy, a blast of fun action and stunts.
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Target is a helluva lot of fun. Valley delivers punchlines as well as he does elbows to the faces of villains.
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Although the series departs from its comicbook roots, the premiere establishes a topnotch look, clever style and bigscreen tone. Perhaps most significantly, the second hour happily matches or surpasses the first.
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Writer and executive producer Jonathan E. Steinberg does an admirable job preserving the smart-mouth humor and ker-pow, splat fun while creating story lines and characters grounded in the alpha-male charm that made guys like Pierce Brosnan, Bruce Willis and Robert Conrad so popular.
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In that way, he's not unlike the super-competent Michael Westen from "Burn Notice," and "Human Target" has the same fun, retro-chic vibe as that USA series. But because it's on a broadcast network, the show works on a broader scale.
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Mark Valley, droll and dashing, is long overdue a hit series, and I’d like to think this fast-paced piece of popcorn fluff could be the ticket. I’d watch Human Target for the retro-cool opening credits alone.
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It's a somewhat old-fashioned and pretty kick-ass hour of TV, with great action sequences in the first two episodes and, probably more important, well-turned performances by its three regulars: Mark Valley, Chi McBride and Jackie Earle Haley.
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Right now it's an action-packed drama that entertains with ease. That's plenty good enough.
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The tweaks this new Fox hour brings to the template are a higher degree of special-effects-fueled action, a faster pace and a consistently amusing tongue-in-cheek tone.
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Whatever the case, it's a blast to watch Valley's character squirm his way out of a major mess, while keeping his droll sense of humor intact. Human Target never will be a big-time Emmy magnet, but as a piece of good, escapist fun, it definitely hits the mark.
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I managed to follow the action without even trying. So if you find Jack Bauer overwhelming, try Human Target. It's the non-thinking man's "24."
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Think Jack Bauer with excellent grooming. Or in Jack's case, with any grooming [in] Fox's entertaining new all-action-all-the-time series.
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Although this Valley is too deep at times, there are enough elements to provide a fun, action-packed experience.
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Whether Chance has any actual superpowers might be a point worth debating if watching Human Target weren’t so much fun.
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Seems like they're off to a decent start.
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It's a slam-bang action adventure with comedy and a little bit of personal drama. And it doesn't aspire to be anything more than that.
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The show, despite good stunt work, is clunkily overfamiliar. [1 Feb 2010, p.37]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 68 out of 83
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Mixed: 7 out of 83
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Negative: 8 out of 83
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Sep 1, 2013
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LoriKJan 17, 2010
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Jun 22, 2015