Starring: Jeffrey Donovan, Sharon Gless, Bruce Campbell Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: 20th Century Fox Number of Items: 4 Region Code: 1 Release Date: June 17, 2008 Running Time: 535 minutes Theatrical Release Date: July 05, 2007
Product Description: Michael Westen is a trained spy who receives a "burn notice" for an unstated reason & effectively is fired. Penniless he returns to his hometown in Miami and freelances while trying to find who burned him.System Requirements:Running Time: 530 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 024543519317 Manufacturer No: 2251931
Amazon.com: Burn Notice is a canny, clever comedy-thriller show about a covert operative with a heart of gold. Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan) is in the middle of a top-secret mission when he discovers he's been "burned"--basically, fired without warning. After barely extricating himself from danger, he wakes up in Miami, where the government has abandoned him and locked him out of his own bank account. To make ends meet, he takes on private detective jobs (helping an old lady who's fallen victim to a con artist; rescuing a young girl who's being tricked into white slavery; helping a mother whose son has been kidnapped by the boy's father... only it turns out the father is the rightful parent and the "mom" is an assassin sent to kill him--a nice guest star appearance by Lucy Lawless, Xena: Warrior Princess), while trying to figure out who burned him and why. Westen tries to remain clinical in his approach to these problems, but he always ends up protecting the helpless with his sophisticated spy skills. Over the course of the first season, he gradually uncovers a mysterious conspiracy that plans to use his talents for their own nefarious ends. Burn Notice deftly mixes the old and the new. The old: Our hero has a hot ex-girlfriend (Gabrielle Anwar, Scent of a Woman), a goofy sidekick (cult hero Bruce Campbell of the Evil Dead movies), and a meddling mom (Sharon Gless, Cagney & Lacey) who help and hinder him in his investigations, as well as a MacGyver-esque skill for making deadly devices out of common household products. The new: A media-savvy way of deconstructing the tricks and techniques of spies and government agencies, often resulting in smart and highly entertaining plot twists. Donovan, handsome but cheeky, combines a light comic touch with a convincing secret agent cool, and the supporting cast fill their niches with aplomb. Their escapades are pretty breezy and occasionally skirt being glib, but most of the time the show finds an extremely entertaining balance between action, romance, and humor. The extras are few (some montages of characteristic moments from the series, including one of the many bikini-clad girls the Miami locale provides) and the commentaries, rather than covering entire episodes, just discuss a few select scenes from each show. Fortunately, the series itself holds up; imagine a cross between Magnum, P.I. and The Wild Wild West (the classic series, not the insulting Will Smith movie) and you're on the right track. --Bret Fetzer
Series writing at its best. This is perhaps the most interesting and well written show on t.v. right now. The cast is great and they have good chemistry together. Check it out....you won't be disappointed.
Surprisingly good TV. I started watching this solely because Bruce Campbell co-stared. I've been a huge fan of his for years and I'll give anything he does at least one shot. I ended up staying with the show, and buying it, because it's just that good.
I've always appreciated Jeffrey Donovan's acting, and in this show he's finally found the perfect role to showcase his slightly out there presence/acting style. He and this role just click in a way that provides some of the best entertainment I've seen on commercial TV in a good long while.
I would classify this as something of a dark comedy, humor cropping up in places/things that just shouldn't be funny, but they are here. Shootings, bombings, international terrorism, etc., somehow it just manages to be wry and funny at all the right moments.
The characters, major and minor, are all surprisingly well developed, the writing is solid and the plots (the plot of the week and the overall burn notice one) all managed to keep me involved and interested. Enough so that I watched them all more than once, which convinced me to buy the season.
The only real weak spot which stops me from giving this five stars is Gabrielle Anwar. Her acting seems somehow weaker than that of her co-stars. It's not a fault of the writing -- I think her character is given just as much of a chance and screen time as everyone else, it just seems to me that the actress herself isn't completely up to this role. At least not yet. I have hope that she'll grow into it and surprise me this season. She's not terrible or anything, so she's far from hopeless, she's just...lacking when held up against Donovan and Campbell. But that isn't enough to stop me from enjoying the show overall, or from recommending it.
The price is good and this is well worth owning.
Burn Notice This show is well written with dry and sarcastic humor, awkward situations and some action.
A truly enjoyable show to watch that is fun and entertaining.
Surprisingly good I purchased "Burn Notice" because I'm a fan of Bruce Campbell, expecting it to be a so-so experience with a few laughs provided by Mr. Campbell, but I was proven delightfully wrong. It turned out to be a proper, pucker, funny, yet somehow not tacky, television series.
It's cleverly written without being brilliant, it's well acted by well casted actors (they may look like stereotypes, but they're good stereotypes), well shot and well produced. The score is perhaps leaning a bit too much towards the rap/hip-hop/dancy sort of thing, but I reckon that it is probably very Miamish (and thus adding to the overall picture, not subtracting from it).
It's not a barrel of lauhgs, but you get to smile quite ofte. It's not full-on action, but there are plenty of bullets flying. It's not Shakespeare, but light drama is provided.
In short "Burn Notice" is really entertaining and quite harmless, if a bit addictive.
Great DVD, highly recommended, the show is under-rated... The DVD is a great purchase for an underrated show that hopefully will make into syndication in a few years.
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