Alias: The Complete Third Season
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Actor: Carl Lumbly, Kevin Weisman, Michael Vartan, Ron Rifkin, Victor GarberBrand: Alias
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 940 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-04-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: ABC Studios
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- The mystery and excitement reach unimaginable heights in ALIAS' spectacular third season. Special Agent Sydney Bristow awakens to an all-new world of intrigue from the very first moment of episode one, and her life is turned upside down as the action accelerates through the season's final frame. It's "pure, crazy, spy-fantasy fun" raves the Boston Globe. Enjoy all 22 episodes i
DVD Reviews of Alias: The Complete Third Season
DVD Review: Weakest season yet
Summary: 3 Stars
Dead spies coming back from the grave, treacherous allies, shadowy organizations bent on global domination, the rantings of a 15th century scholar that point to the end of the world, lots of gadgetry and gunplay, and a host of would-be arch-villains based in nightclubs.
Yes, it's yet another season of "Alias".
(In departing from existing Rotten Review policy, we will NOT have a short squib even hinting the basics of the show - there's so much baggage built up over past seasons, that there's no point to getting into season three unless you've seen 1 & 2.)
LAST SEASON, ON "ALIAS": Sydney Bristow has finally vanquished "The Alliance", a shadowy organization of rogue agents who manipulate counterintelligence operations for their own agenda. Just when she thought she was safe, Syd is ambushed by a counter-agent disguised as her best friend. Though winning the fight, Syd wakes up to find herself in Hong Kong. Worse, she finds that 2 years have passed - 2 years in which she's been presumed dead. Dixon is now a CIA director, her father is in jail and, worst of all, Vaughan is married.
THIS SEASON, ON A VERY SPECIAL "ALIAS". While trying to learn the secrets of the past 2 years, Sydney discovers a new sinister organization, "The Covenant". She also finds clues that she may have been turned to their side during the time she went missing, becoming a nearly cybernetic assassin named Julia Thorn. Syd must learn the truth of her recent past before the CIA does. Luckily, Syd will have the help of her father (once sprung from Fed. Custody) as well as Marshall & Dixon (now definitely working for the CIA). She will also have to navigate dangerous waters with Lauren Reed, a fellow agent who (big surprise) is now Vaughan's wife.
WHAT WORKS: Alias is a lot of fun - perhaps the most entertaining show of its kind, especially when you consider just how often it shamelessly recycles the same basic idea (there's something on a computer in a room locked with a biometric key and located in the basement of a nightclub or some fancy building that just happens to be hosting some fancy dress ball). The fast pace keeps you from recognizing just how much the show recycles itself. Lots of twists and turns keep you glued, while the writers display an almost superhuman skill at shifting the plot's gears at the perfect moment.
WHAT FAILS: The episodes are perhaps a tad too clever for their own good, creating new enigmas so quickly, that you forget if the older ones were ever satisfactorily resolved. Also, in changing direction, the show fails to create any compelling characters. Vaughan's new wife is so cold, and has such a precisely foreign accent, it's almost impossible to believe that she'll turn out to be anything more than a female version of Sark. Sark is also back, and having seen what David Anders can do on "Heroes" it was dispiriting to see how underwritten he is here. (Are the writers so behind the times to think a foreign accent enough for a baddie?) The best characters are the oldest ones - Sloane as charming and evil as before, and Jack Bristow as the world's best, worst and most homicidal father. The worst character is also the linchpin for many of the early episodes - Robert Lindsey as an NSC bigwig determined to break Sydney. It's a cool role, but Lindsey never becomes more than an oaf, a bully and utter moron - becoming the first character on the show to accidentally kill himself with his own stupidity as the fatal instrument. "Alias" is always short in the Villain department - so many come and go that there's little effort expended to make them genuinely evil or convincingly menacing. By the end of the season, "Alias" has revealed its own identity of being a show running out of ideas.
Luckily the fun of the preceding seasons provides enough steam to at least keep the show going.
[Following standard decurity protocols of the Rotten Review, our special agents have wiped away any indicators of our operations...as well as the DVD extras]
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