I enjoyed the pilot episode of Human Target very much. Being a comic collector, I have a special interest in a show based on a classic comic book, and this was a very good and action-filled updated version. I also appreciated the comedy. The previous commenter here seems to have missed some of the jokes. The thing with both guns being out of ammo seemed deliberate to me on Chance's part. He's playing with his opponent.
There were a couple of things I didn't appreciate as well, though. It's cool that Chance goes around saying "nobody deserves to die" like a bona-fide superhero, but it seriously ruins that same coolness when he ends up killing his opponents after all! Surely a man of his abilities could find some way of catching the bad guys alive?!
The other thing I frowned on in this first episode was the bullet train. Firstly, it is way too bulky to be energy-efficient. You wouldn't build a two-story train for the purpose of going really fast. Secondly, it was an expensive public works projects; couldn't Chance have saved it from crashing?? Okay, so I guess they wanted a really spectacular derailing scene... well, no! They couldn't afford anything except showing us the crash from a ways behind, and inside a tunnel!! So, no big effects shot, *and* no good reason for crashing the train! That, my friends, is gratuitous and poor-quality action for its own sake. Not cool. Shape up!!
Still, that was just one little element of the whole, and I still enjoyed the show quite a bit.
8 out of 10.
There were a couple of things I didn't appreciate as well, though. It's cool that Chance goes around saying "nobody deserves to die" like a bona-fide superhero, but it seriously ruins that same coolness when he ends up killing his opponents after all! Surely a man of his abilities could find some way of catching the bad guys alive?!
The other thing I frowned on in this first episode was the bullet train. Firstly, it is way too bulky to be energy-efficient. You wouldn't build a two-story train for the purpose of going really fast. Secondly, it was an expensive public works projects; couldn't Chance have saved it from crashing?? Okay, so I guess they wanted a really spectacular derailing scene... well, no! They couldn't afford anything except showing us the crash from a ways behind, and inside a tunnel!! So, no big effects shot, *and* no good reason for crashing the train! That, my friends, is gratuitous and poor-quality action for its own sake. Not cool. Shape up!!
Still, that was just one little element of the whole, and I still enjoyed the show quite a bit.
8 out of 10.