After being turned off by main stream TV the last couple of years, when the writers strike forced many shows to cut corners and squeeze in realistic storylines into impossible time-frames. It was nice to actually sit down and look forward to a return of one of the old favourites. Namely 24 starring Kiefer "make mine a double" Sutherland.
This time the writers had sensibly started with the idea of the story being set outside Los Angeles (I mean how many near-catastrophic disasters can one city take ?). We pick the story up in a small central African nation. Were Jack seems to be living out his tormented days helping in and around a school for orphaned children. However with cival war just around the corner, Jack is undissapointingly 'forced' out of retirement, as some of the boys from the score are captured/killed by a rebal group trying to force them into joining their illegal armies.
One could not help notice a few similarities to events in the film 'Hotel Rwanda'. With a similar voiced villian and machetes being brandished at any opportunity. However it set the tone nicely and as Jack and his mate (played by Robert Carlyle) tried desperately to get the boys to the American embassy, which was being evacuated.
However on arrival Jack was 'forced' into handing over himself to the authorities in exchange for safe-passage of the boys also. With Jon Voight and company seeming to be playing a sinister element of government which is actually funding and supporting the rebels. All is set-up for a well-paced and gripping 24 which starts in 2008.
Let's hope it can live up to the excellent first show :-)
Jack is Back !!!!
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