The Prisoner - Lock It Up and Throw Away the Key!

This little review of AMC's The Prisoner is nothing more than me being pissed that I can't get any of those 6 hours of my life back! Not only was this mini-series poorly directed, poorly written and poorly acted, but it also lacked any continuity and/or focus whatsoever.

I can live with the fact that the first 2 hour episode was nothing more than a quickfire repeat of the 200 hours of commercials AMC jammed down our throats for this. There was absolutely plot structure (in fact, I would go so far as to say there was no plot at all). Whoever convinced these morons that constant and unexplained flashbacks, flashpresents and hallucinations was the way to go should immediately be transferred to Fox News...they would fit in just right over there.

Let me be clear that I was not expecting much, but I would've liked a reasonable little attention keeper. The wardrobe reminded me of Gilligan's Island, the big bouncing ball was unbelievably ridiculous, and the fact that nothing ever gets fully explained in any intelligible manner was just amateurish. Most of the characters were extremely 2-dimensional (I think on purpose), but several of them could have been explored in a way that certainly would have improved the movie...just as I know that better writing and directing would've elevated this series to at least interesting.

I really have no reason for writing this diatribe except for 2 things that really bothered me at the end of the series. First, AMC immediately starts advertising how we can own this piece of history on DVD...ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?! They are just a bunch of thieves. But even more criminal, and on this I will not budge...I observed an interesting thing in the closing credits The producers actually credited Jim Caviezel's Acting Coach. ACTING COACH!! Jim Caviezel was a suck actor before this, and he especially polluted the screen in this...I really just have one question for these producers...if you thought this "Acting Coach" was worth crediting, you got another do-nothing job for me?