EPISODE
SEASON
The Canadian series Flashpoint follows the missions and trials of a fictional elite tactical unit, the Strategic Response Unit (SRU), within a Canadian metropolitan police force.
7 April 1941, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
19 June 1971, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
23 February 1978, Brampton, Ontario, Canada
11 June 1973, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
15 March 1976, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
10 December 1965, Geneva, Switzerland
9 October 1964, Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada
16 November 1976, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
31 January 1996, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
July 11, 2008
To be sure, Flashpoint is a perfectly competent police procedural right down to its convincing weaponry and tactics. However, based on the pilot, it isn't particularly fresh or inventive.
July 11, 2008
It's more nuanced than the average cop drama, and for that reason, more intriguing.
July 11, 2008
It's not terrible, not great, just sort of so-so.
July 11, 2008
The "Flashpoint" pilot is competent, but very retro and fairly dull.
July 11, 2008
Flashpoint works through the distress and damage it lays out here. Now, if it can just figure a way beyond the scary perp cliches.
July 11, 2008
Too bad the writing isn't as on-target as Lane's high-powered automatic.
July 11, 2008
"Flashpoint" lingers when it ought to speed up.
July 11, 2008
As viewing experiences go, the series itself possesses so little flash, that it's difficult to see the point.
July 11, 2008
It is nonetheless merely re-creating crime-series moves we've all seen many times before, with only the faintest afterimage of originality.
July 11, 2008
If it had something truly new or provocative to say about such matters, the essential redundancy of Flashpoint could be overlooked--but it doesn't, and so it can't.
