BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.

merniesmith I loved Numb3rs just about all the way through. It started going downhill a bit, though, when they ran that Charlie-lost-his-security-clearance stuff through episode after episode, though. It became hard to hear him, much less understand him. He spoke in more of a monotone, than he ever did before. And he and Don got too philosophical, IMO!! The cop drama needs to focus on catching the bad guys, it seems to me!The episodes with Edgerton (Lou Diamond Phillips) were always terrific. He added a whole different angle ... precision thinking and precision shooting! Loved those episodes.Overall, it was marvelous, though. It'd be fun to have it back ... if they can get off this brooding philosophical stuff, that is!

ioanaspam I was so happy to find a show which blends my two favorite past times: watching investigative shows and doing mathematics. There is so much potential to the idea, especially as mathematicians are CRUCIAL to national security and agencies such as the NSA and CIA/FBI for their analyses, especially involving cryptography, cyber crimes, and modeling and sim of terrorist/hostage/other dangerous situations.This show, however, makes a MOCKERY of mathematics, and thus gets a "1" from this reviewer. Basically some Hollywood director who clearly did not hire one mathematician for his staff to advise him, just makes up some random equations using as many variables and mathematical symbols as they can and peppers the show with cool sound effects as the equations float by in the background or are written on a chalkboard by the main character, usually shown in a stereotypical "genius" daze of not paying attention to anything but math.Other than the insult this show brings to all people who understand math, even more insulting is that it gives a sense of patently false understanding to those who never felt like they "got" math before. As for the acting, character development, etc, the premise of this show is so preposterous that for me, it overrides everything else. The actors may be good, the writing may be solid, but I can't even tell, I am too distracted by the mockery that is made out of my main passion and its misapplication.

tkovacs-4 I really like this show. I like everything it promotes, I like the plots, I like the math, I like the camera work, I like...For a while I thought "at least they try to make the math plausible", unlike shows that just invent stuff on the spot. One day I saw an episode where Charlie and Amita "trace the flow of the Internet Protocol yada yada blah blah" in order to capture the bad guy. Finally being an expert on something they were depicting the realization hit me "they are BS us hard" (that much was obvious, but HARD was not to me). No matter how much Wolfram (the math behind numbers) tries to convince us the math is real the show changed forever for me.Charlie is a math genius. Amita is too. But they are *experts* in a lot of other stuff. For example in Computer Science, I've seen Charlie "do" some amazing things on this show, things that require years of dedication to CS, which I don't see how one could pull it off since he spent those years on math. Maybe they try to make the math plausible to a point, but they go all crazy with everything else, especially CS.In one episode Charlie actually cracks and hijacks servers of some criminals. In another Amita does programming like a pro, re-invents the whole damn Internet in 30 minutes. Amazing stuff, they are extreme programmers, network engineers, hackers, cryptographers, satellite communications experts... the list go on. What ever you need done Amita can pull it out of her sleeve because in her past life she was actually Alan Turing.

neofita To cut the long story short: good idea of praising science in chase after crime completely spoiled by so-called "genius scientist(s)" that can infer, for instance, that it must be summer since sun is shining (it's exaggeration, of course, but it shows my point). It also adds some cops fitting into brainless muscles stereotype. Bad show, often unintentionally silly, almost always preposterous. The one and only bright side of the series is Rob Morrow, forever known as Dr Fleischman from old-school Northern Exposure series. Still, his brainless character doesn't fit him. At least, doesn't fit his former "doctor type". Maybe he should be the genius character and the script should be rewritten so that it had less "Gaussian distribution" along with other quasi-scientific babbling that is intended to cover scientific shallows of the show. "You may sit down, fail."