Product details: - Product group: Video
- Edition: VHS Tape
- Publisher: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
- Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Dolby, PAL, Surround Sound
- Release Date: 2002-08-19
- Number of discs: 5
- Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Carlos Bernard, Elisha Cuthbert, Dennis Haysbert
- Audience rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
- Run Time: 42 minutes
- Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
- Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
- Package Dimensions: 8.35 x 43 x 75 inches
Such a simple idea--yet so fiendishly complex in the execution. 24, as surely everyone knows by now, is a thriller that takes place over 24 hours, midnight to midnight, in 24 one-hour episodes (well, 45-minute episodes if you extract the ad breaks). Everything to take place in real time--on-screen and off-screen time the same--which means no flash-backs, no flash-forwards, no nice handy time-dissolves. Every strand of the plot has to be dovetailed and interlocked to make sure that things happen just when they should, in the right amount of time. Not that easy. Creator Robert Cochran and his team of writers and directors have done a pretty impressive job in putting the jigsaw together and keeping the tension ratcheted up high, as Federal Agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) hares around LA trying to stall an assassination attempt on a black Presidential candidate and rescue his wife and daughter from the clutches of the Balkan baddies. Twists, turns, revelations and cliffhangers are tossed at us with satisfying regularity. It’s not perfect: we get some hokey plot devices (instant amnesia, anybody?) and the final twist, once you start thinking back, makes no sense whatsoever. There are altogether too many huggy family moments ("I love you, Dad." "I love you, son"); and as for überbaddie Dennis Hopper’s "Serbian" accent… Even so, this is undeniably mould-breaking TV. Sutherland, rescuing his career from the doldrums in one heroic leap, fully deserves his Golden Globe. Sets and locations are artfully deployed--we gain a real sense of LA’s splayed-out geography--and Sean Callery’s score is a powerful, brooding presence. Like Murder One and The Sopranos, 24 is one of those series future TV thrillers will have to measure themselves against. On the DVDs:24 is released in a six-disc box set. On discs 1- 5 there are no extras, but disc 6 includes the "alternative" ending and a preview of Series 2, presented by an urbane Kiefer Sutherland, that tells us precisely nothing. The transfer, in 16x9 widescreen and 2.0 Dolby Digital sound, does the high production values of the original every justice.--Philip Kemp
Customer reviews:  Warning- this show is highly addictive, 2010-01-15
I had heard about how good this show was for a while and in November I started watching the first season on iTunes. After a few episodes I went out and bought the boxset. To give you an idea of how addictive the show is- I am now 14 episodes into Season 2.
I'm sure many of you are familiar with the concept of 24, each episode being shot in real-time and each season covering a day. There are several sub-plots which at times cross over, such as Jack trying to stop the assassination attempt while looking for his daughter. There are plenty of shocks- not least when the CTU mole is discovered!
If you are thinking of getting into 24- I fully recommend you do. However, while with some shows you can pick it up at any point (I started watching The OC midway through Season 2 but quickly made sense of it) with 24 it will only make sense if you start from Day 1, Episode 1. This is partially due to the real-time nature of the show, but also because certain plots carry over into the next season.
Worth Getting, 2010-01-10
Never having watched this before i only had other peoples opinions to go off when buying this. If there is anyone like me wondering if this is worth buying then here is your answer. Yes. Customers who bought this item also bought:
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