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Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

snowyprecipice I've watched almost every 'mainstream' crime show out there and Cold Case is definitely in my top five. The use of music, the plots, the characters... they're all amazing. Maybe I'm a bit biased because I'm an oldies-but-goodies fan, but some of the songs, along with the scenes, brought tears to my eyes. The plots are good, some are even brilliant, and I was riveted for 90% of the episodes. The ease with which scenes from the present transit with scenes from the past really gave this show its unique flavour/catch. Especially at the end, when they show the present people (victim's families, friends etc) the way they were in the past.It also shows the problems society faced in the past, like deep racism, homophobia and other outdated concepts that are (thankfully) being fought against way more now. Each episode was done artfully, and the great cast really makes the show stand out for me. Going to rewatch now, it's been a couple of years. (:

SnoopyStyle In Philadelphia, Lilly Rush (Kathryn Morris) and Scotty Valens (Danny Pino) are police partners investigating cold cases which have been languishing in storage. Lieutenant John Stillman (John Finn) is their supervisor. They work with fellow detectives Nick Vera (Jeremy Ratchford), Will Jeffries (Thom Barry), and laster Kat Miller (Tracie Thoms).This is a standard police procedural with a twist. The cast is good and relatively stable. Most stayed around for its run of seven seasons. It's a good thing to have that much stability. The group has good chemistry and good balance. Adding younger cast members could have allowed the show to evolve in its later years.The show usually starts in flashback of a crime committed in the past. As the team investigates, we go back and forth in time to discover clues. The cases are not too special. They are usually not too twisted, or too grotesque. It's a good police procedural. Eventually, they did run out of steam.

skipcmail-politics Seriously....what liberal baloney. I watched my first Cold Case tonight and the over all theme had to do with the big bad banker making money on the backs of others. Who writes this junk? Seriously do your homework. There was very little in this tear-jerking hokum that had any truth to it and/or related to truth. Why don't you make a real cold case in which the bad guy is simply a bad guy, without blaming it on his upbringing, others, his employer who fired him, and on and on. Bad guys simply are bad guys. Bad values, bad morals, and evil. They are that way for a variety of reasons.If you want a lesson in screen writing let me know.Probably my last Cold Case.

tloewald Make no mistake, I like this show, i like the cast, and I like the idea, but there are two things about it that consistently bug me.First, the show uses every trick in the book to manipulate the viewer's emotions, culminating in the "ghosts" of the victims etc. making tear-jerking appearances (presumably in the main character's imagination) at the end.But the biggest weakness is that the crimes frequently lack a convincing motive -- so many episodes end with our discovering that the killer didn't really have a good reason to commit the crime. It may be that this is a common feature of cold cases, but realism isn't a big feature of the show in general, so why the writers would do this escapes me. Usually the red herrings have much stronger motives, which makes almost every episode's outcome seem forced.It's a nicely acted, well put together show, with a laudable agenda (teaching history, especially civil rights) to it's audience — I just wish they could put in plausible motives.