Raulken co.UK - Review: '24'

By MARY McNAMARA, Television Critic Filling the screen with images reminiscent of “Hotel Rwanda” and “Blood Diamond” and an even grimmer and sick-at-heart Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland), "24" prepares to retake its position on television with...

In the year and a half since "24" last crossed our TV screen, Kiefer Sutherland's Jack Bauer has had plenty of time to reload. If bullets were nutritious meals, he could end starvation in Africa just from the number he fires in Sunday night's two-hour runup to the new season that launches in January. Nor is it only Jack Bauer who shows up with fresh ammo. The writers sharpened their aim, too, giving us a show that deftly accomplishes two worthy goals. It advances Jack's story, bridging the complicated past to an equally complicated future, and at the same time it could pass as a two-hour action-adventure movie standing all by itself. Once the writers have tied up the plot threads, the two-hour length gives them plenty of time to let Jack have some old-style heroic fun in the tradition of Steven Seagal and Arnold. In one remarkable scene, Jack single-handedly takes on dozens of murderous armed psychopaths and manages to keep picking them off on the fly while every one of the several thousand rounds they fire at him only kick up dust at his feet. That won't come as a spoiler, by the way, to anyone familiar with Jack's past. It's more like a day at the office. As we pick up the two-pronged story, Jack is living in Africa's fictional Sangala, helping his old friend Carl Benton (Robert Carlyle) run a school that helps rescued child soldiers get an education and a chance. ...
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