"Dark Angel" Pilot (2000)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

David Nutter

Writers:

James Cameron (creator) and
Charles H. Eglee (creator) ...

TV Series:

"Dark Angel" (2000)

Original Air Date:

3 OKTÓBER 2000 (Season 1, Episode 0)

Genre:

Action | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Engineered To Raise Hell.

Plot:

12 genetically enhanced childern escape from a military base that created them. 10 years later, after The Pulse...

Plot Keywords:

Escape | Bicycle | Barcode Tattoo | 2010s | Television

Awards:

Nominated for Primetime Emmy. Another 1 win

Cast

Jessica Alba	...	Max Guevera / X5-452
Michael Weatherly	...	Logan Cale
Alimi Ballard	...	Herbal Thought
Jennifer Blanc	...	Kendra Maibaum
Richard Gunn	...	Calvin 'Sketchy' Theodore
J.C. MacKenzie	...	Reagan 'Normal' Ronald (as J.C. Mackenzie)
Valarie Rae Miller	...	Cynthia 'Original Cindy' McEachin
John Savage	...	Donald Lydecker
Stanley Kamel	...	Edgar Sonrisa
Kristin Bauer	...	Lydia Meyerson
Paul Popowich	...	Darren McKennon
Kimberly Hawthorne	...	Jacinda Katsuno (as Kim Hawthorne)
Douglas O'Keeffe	...	Bruno Anselmo
Sarah-Jane Redmond	...	Lauren Braganza
Lauren Lee Smith	...	Natalie (as Lauren Smith)

Runtime:

120 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Germany:16 | UK:15 | USA:Unrated | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Seattle, Washington, USA

Company:

20th Century Fox Television

Trivia:

Pilot for the TV series.

Goofs:

Continuity: When researching Bruno Anselmo, his birthday is shown to be in 1990. As it is set in 2019, that would make him 28/29, however on the news report after the shooting, the announcer describes his as being 32.

Quotes:

Logan Cale: I need a favor.
Max Guevara: You can keep this. I really don't have anyplace to put it.
Logan Cale: I need you to do a little leg work for me. Joel Solinski. This guy's got a wife with three kids, an ex-wife with two kids, a mistress, and two girlfriends. The wives get houses, the mistress a condo, and everybody gets a car... all on a harbormaster's salary.
Max Guevara: I caught the tail end of your hack. The guy's on the take. He's paid to look the other way while the smugglers deep-six their cargo.
Logan Cale: He's made a fortune... as an accessory to murder.
Max Guevara: Okay, so the guy's a beast. Doesn't mean I got to get involved.
Logan Cale: You are involved. By being alive, you're involved.
Max Guevara: I got my own problems.
Logan Cale: Look... maybe we got screwed out of living in a time when we could hang out for the afternoon in a cafe someplace wearing $2,000 wristwatches, planning our next vacation, but the world got a whole lot meaner all of a sudden. It wasn't supposed to... but it did. So now it's back to the law of the jungle and there are predators and victims.
Max Guevara: And you still think you can do something to change that?
[...]

Movie Connections:

References "Rocky and His Friends" (1959)

Jessica shines

Jessica Alba's Max and Valerie Rae Miller's Original Cindy shines in this actionpacked and atmospheric serial. Wonderfully politically incorrect. Quality varies greatly from episode to episode, but generally the standard is high and when it is not, Jessica is always worth looking at. Valerie's urban jivetalking afroamerican is occationally almost dragging Dark Angel into sitcom territory.