Review: ALCATRAZ 1.4 – Cal Sweeney

4 episodes in and Alcatraz is not showing any signs of improvement, last weeks “Kit Nelson” was a slight improvement but could have been a lot better. Following watching “Cal Sweeney” I just thought what was the point? Following last week’s episode my wife has offered up on the show deciding that it will be boring. Me, well I’m going to stick with it a tiny longer since though this episode was not that great it nevertheless left us with that tiny Lost style mystery in the finish which will hopefully be explained in the next, properly rest of the season.

Cal Sweeney returned to the modern day day, a bank robber who seemed to have a Sawyer edge to him, simple on the eye tricking uglier looking women into opening up safety deposit boxes for him. He seemed to have no qualms about killing any person who had anything to do with those safety deposit boxes either. That was weird as in the course of the flashback to 1960 Alcatraz he did not come across and was not a murderer, so what has happened to him in the last 42 years? Ok, he got double crossed by his cell mate but surely that is not sufficient to turn somebody to murder.

I am not convinced that Sam Neil’s Emerson Hauser is very convincing adequate as what looks like the negative guy function, that is not to say that he is a bad guy he might nicely be a good guy but he clearly knows what is going on, that has been pretty clear from the start. In this episode we were offered a little a lot more insight into his team, a bunch of pc techs who sit behind a door just off the main office from where Rebecca and Doc sit, how has he managed to maintain them secret from them up to now? Do they just live in there or something? Doc and Rebecca are going to be pretty pissed when they realise there are a bunch of guys who don’t genuinely seem to do significantly and never put their life in danger, however they know a lot more about what is going on than they do.

We are still no additional on with Rebecca or Doc’s characters, I am yet to be convinced that she is a hero in any sort of way, brave yes but you think that after Hauser and his goons gassed her and Doc, and the fact he blatantly refuses to tell them something that she would be a small much more pushing on the subject, would you have given him that package as speedy? No, of course you would not it clearly meant a thing to him and the secret guys behind the door, I would have held onto it till he told me at least a little and that I was convinced that what he was telling me was the truth.

So, is it cloning or time travelling then? Hauser told his tech guys that Sweeney “jumped” that would recommend that he travelled by way of time, at least in any other show or movie that I have observed, he definitely wasn’t referring to Sweeney jumping off a roof. I am not so positive that “Cal Sweeney” would have convinced anyone on the fence about Alcatraz that it is worth an hour of their time every single Monday night, or would the final 5 to ten minutes have been adequate to conserve those handful of viewers and have them tune in once more next week?

Sweeney was on the appear out for a Essential, that was his mission with looking via the safety deposit boxes, I am presuming he was seeking for the box of the guy who double crossed him in Alcatraz all those years earlier. If the men and women who sent him to the modern day day are clever adequate to do that, why did not they just send him to the right bank in the first location? Anyway Sweeney got the crucial he or possibly Hauser has been after, they just need to know now what door on Alcatraz it opens, now despite the fact that the laser technology employed to cut the keys wasn’t readily available in 1960 the important was nonetheless in use then, it opened a secretive door deep within the prison, kind of like the hatch in Lost. Is that enough to make you watch on Monday?

So far Alcatraz has failed to set the screen alight with any sort of suggestion that it could be the new Lost, it is definitely not as excellent as Person of Interest and up to know I actually can not see audiences getting so engrossed, the difficulty they have is attempting to reside up to Lost and that will be no simple job for J.J Abrams and Co.