24: Season Seven [Blu-ray] | ![24: Season Seven [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SWHO4JDpL._SL500_.jpg) | Actor: Kiefer Sutherland
Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Format: AC-3, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 6
Running Time: 1050 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.9
MPN: 2259697
UPC: 024543596974
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ASIN: B0015QWZ8S
Release Date: May 19, 2009
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Genre: Television: Fox TV
Rating: TV14
Release Date: 19-MAY-2009
Media Type: Blu-Ray
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paranoid once again February 5, 2010
Cynthia L. Bartlett
Better than previous years but pretty much more of the same. If you like Jack Bauer and his crew, you will like Season Seven. We enjoyed it.
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Excellent and well needed comeback February 4, 2010
M. Herzog (chicago)
After Season 6 of 24, I was a little worried. It appeared that the show had started running out of ideas, and was starting to veer into completely implausable storylines. However, season 7 was a far better season, and a return to form, thanks to a much needed jolt in the arm with new characters and new locations. The setting is washington DC, the task...well its 24 so its save america from bad guys. I won't give any spoilers or tell the story, but it very much follows the 24 template, a story begins, morphs into another, and morphs yet again. The use of the new FBI characters works well. I especially liked the young Rene opposite baurer, who is starting to show his age. Rene's youthful vigor and debate over right and wrong plays well with Jack's do anythiny necessary approach, without coming off nagging. There was also a return of some well missed characters. My only complaint, the new president, and her story, wasn't a particular grabber to me. The president is often the basis of the additional story in the show, as their decisions are important and relevant. However, this president seemed a bit week and wishy washy, and her subplots weren't that interesting, and rather predictable. But that's a small flaw with a very good season of an amazing show. I recomend it to all 24 fans.
 Not up to par with the rest of the series February 3, 2010
Bowser Marzenai (Nevada)
I won't sugarcoat it: the "24" staff had a tough act to follow in 2009. After the writers' strike, the problems in Day 6 (which has been unofficially called the worst season of "24" to date), and the weak storylines in "24: Redemption," the writers had a challenge on their hands. Day 7 was an opportunity for a fresh start, a chance to pull things together better than before.
But they tried too hard.
Everything in Day 7 shifted in some way. Jack Bauer had been to Africa, CTU was disbanded, and Tony Almeida was alive. Behind the scenes, the staff at "24" was introducing some new members and seeing a couple veterans leave. Sometimes, change is inevitable in the course of a series, but that doesn't mean every change you make will improve the series.
The "24" staff used the writers' strike as time to plan out the entire day's terror plot. Up until then, they did almost everything off the cuff. This change is definitely my biggest issue with Day 7, and it's an issue because it goes against most of what I stand for as a writer. I've been writing books and screenplays since 1996; ever since 2005, I've used "24" as my biggest training material. I've made a lot of mistakes as I've tried to create a great story, so when I heard that Day 7 would be planned out in advance, the writer in me kept insisting one thing: "It won't work."
Unfortunately, I saw this play out as the season went on. The day started out strong, but after the first few hours, it felt more and more engineered. Here's why I think that's the case. Whenever you write, your focus has to be your main character. He makes the show happen; he lets it make sense. From the beginning, most of what the writers had to go on was Jack Bauer, and that was enough to make a good story. His history, family, personal life, and job--all of it was material the writers used to deepen the situation as it happened. They saw it unfold along with Jack, and it gave them the most room to work with. Everything was consistent and fresh because it all depended on what Jack was going to do.
But in Day 7, the focus was not on Jack. It was on Tony Almeida. His return has been debated, so I'll put in my two cents' worth. He should have stayed dead. Killing him was a stretch, bringing him back to life even more so. But making him a quadruple agent pushed it too far. The conspiracy he spearheaded wasn't well planned and constructed, and he switched sides so many times over the course of the day that I lost a lot of ability to believe in him as a character.
For all that the writers planned, it disappointed me that the main focus of the day came out so poorly. This bothered me the entire season because the show is really supposed to be about Jack. He's the character who ties everything together. If the writers had focused on him, then they would have had a stronger storyline. But the focus was on Tony, and instead of Jack taking charge, he came across to me as though he was only along for the ride. He did and said the things that we would expect him to do, but it felt passive, as if Jack weren't making the decisions on his own.
Disbanding CTU was another major change I didn't like. Apart from Jack Bauer, CTU makes the infrastructure of "24" unique. Setting it in the FBI took away the atmosphere of the show. "24" was not the same without the CTU phone sound, Chloe and Morris O'Brian bickering (which I actually miss), and a staff that's willing to do whatever it takes. But in the FBI, it was too many politics and not enough action. I didn't connect or even like the characters. Sean Hillinger sounded and acted like he was reading the recipe for deviled eggs. Larry Moss and Renee Walker sounded like they were trying too hard. Janis Gold bothered me every time she spoke. Everything at the FBI probably could have been removed, and it wouldn't have made a difference in the story.
But a major upset in the story is the terror plot. In terms of the plot, this is the most important part of "24." If the terror threat isn't well-constructed, then the story loses its impact. It was hard to tell who was ultimately behind it all--Jonas Hodges, Tony Almeida, or Benjamin Juma, none of whom I consider believable villains. It was hard to tell what the motive was behind the attack. In Day 3 of "24," it's clear who the villain is, what the threat is, and why he's carrying out the attack. In Day 3, Stephen Saunders planned to use the Cordilla virus to wipe out America's population; his goal was "to make America clean again" after the U.S. government left him for dead in an explosion in Bosnia. But there's not the same level of clarity or precision in Day 7. We have a bioweapon (called "the bioweapon," or a prion variant), but we never really know who plans to use it or what they want to accomplish.
Bottom line: Day 7 had too much planning, too many holes, and too many things that just didn't work. To me, Day 7 was the worst season of "24" to date; I don't remember a season where everything at its most fundamental level felt so disjointed. I think that if they stuck to the ways they used to craft "24," then I would have loved Day 7. The past seasons of "24" set a level of excellence that's easy to reach if the episodes are written loosely. The writers tried too hard to create a better season, and they ended up fixing what wasn't broken.
My rating: 2 out of 5.
 the worst season ever , dont waste your time and memories of good 24 February 2, 2010
Ziyad A. Meeralam
really this seasons deserves a zero star without a challenge , the plot is too stupid to watch .
please dont hate 24 because of this stupid season , this is nothing -which is actually nothing- compared to seasons 1-5 .
shame on the producers .
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