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24: Season Seven |  | Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Carlos Bernard, James Morrison, Elisha Cuthbert
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
List Price: $49.98
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Rating:  223 reviews
Sales Rank: 521
Format: AC-3, Box set, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Discs: 6
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Running Time: 1050 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: FOXD2257841D
UPC: 024543578413
EAN: 0024543578413
ASIN: B001L5SRJE
Release Date: May 19, 2009
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Genre: Television: Fox TV
Rating: TV14
Release Date: 19-MAY-2009
Media Type: DVD
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 24 ruined by its own format July 23, 2010
George Robinson (Sherwood Forest, England)
Here we go again... ludicrous storylines, idiotic twists, irritating characters, lots of gunfire and armed SWAT teams storming buildings and the villian they're after slipping out quietly through a side door... everything that wound you up in the first six series is back again for season 7, with knobs on.
What really strangles most of the 24 seasons at birth, though, is the format that made it famous... that it all happens in 'real' time, over the course of a single day. This isn't a real problem when this single day is stretched over 24 episodes, shown one a week on TV, for 5 or 6 months. But on DVD, when most of us watch two or three episodes a night during the course of a week or so, the preposterous succession of cataclysmic events, of the kind that most of us would be unlucky to witness in a lifetime, one after the other, reduces everything to the level of total and unbelievable farce.
In this season, for example, we have the White House attacked and bombs going off inside the building, loads of people gunned down, and rooms and walls and furniture etc destroyed or sprayed with bullets... and yet, barely two hours later, there is no evidence of this whatsoever, and life goes on in a pristine, undamaged White House as if nothing has happened at all!
One of the bonus features on Disc 6 shows the writers discussing the various problems of tailoring stories to the strait jacket of the 24 hour 'real time'format, with one guy saying they did consider having a 'time gap' between each event, like fast forwarding to three weeks later, for example. Sadly, this was dismissed as it might upset the 24 'purist' fans. To me this was a big mistake and might have freed them up to deliver more credible storylines with a bit more character development, for example.
Still, all this is moot now, as I gather Season 8 has just ended and it was the last they're doing. Daft as 24 was, you can't deny it was entertaining and had some money spent on it, and Jack Bauer is a great character... that's why I can grudgingly give Season 7 one star. It loses the other 4 for bringing back really annoying bit part characters from earlier seasons for no reason whatsoever, and for all the other reasons mentioned above.
I don't know if Jack Bauer survives at the end of Season 8, but if he does, there'd be nothing wrong with perhaps two or three feature films based on his character... WITHOUTtrying to cram it all into one totally unrealistic and idiotic 24 hour period. It couldn't be any worse than a lot of the other hideous 'reboot' rubbish spewing out of Hollywood, that's for sure.
 24 is always great! July 2, 2010
reen
Keifer is great as usual! All of the 24 series has been great. the story line in this one was a bit more lacking than the previous seasons, but still action packed and still a good show!
Season 7 of224 June 26, 2010
P. Call (Chih. Mexico)
My daughter collects this series of DVD's. I bought this for her for christmas. It was all she hoped it to be!
White House part was cut June 7, 2010
Michael Giese (Chicago IL USA)
This is BS
I watched season 7 last year on TV, but now I buy the disk only to find out that a part was cut. The most intense part of the show is the white House break-in, and Fox completely cut it out. Disk 4 shows the preview of it as though it was on disk2, but it's not. Last time I buy a movie.
24 season 7 May 18, 2010
L. Sang (USA)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
The item that I purchased was not what it was advertised. The first three disc froze up. Also it was in widescreen which was not told on item otherwise I wouldn't have purchased it. The item was shipped from Orlando which is about 65 miles away. I had to wait 8 days before I got it and there was no tracking for me to following the item. I was very, very unsatified with purchase I wouldn't recommend to buy from this person again.
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