Nikita:
The Fourth & Final Season
(2013/Warner Blu-ray)
Picture:
A Sound: A Extras: D Episodes: B-
Based
on Luc Besson's classic action thriller French film La
Femme Nikita,
here we have the 4th
& Final Season
of the television spin-off starring Maggie Q as Nikita Mears. While
it doesn't quite hold up to the original television series La
Femme Nikita that
starred
Peta
Wilson,
or even the American feature film remake with Bridget Fonda, John
Badham's The
Point Of No Return,
this show offers some good moments and is worth a glance.
Framed
for assassinating the U.S. President at the end of Season
Three,
Nikita is the world's most wanted woman. Alone and on the run,
Nikita is destined to stay alive and clear her name. When she
unexpectedly re-unites with her ex-fiance and mentor Michael, her
former protegee Alex, tech genius Seymour Birkhoff and ex-CIA analyst
Ryan Fletcher - they struggle to heal past betrayals while attempting
to take down their deadliest foe - Amanda. Whilst in the process,
they discover a vast conspiracy that threatens a global catastrophe.
Will Nikita stay alive, figure out her love life, and clear her name?
Find out in this action packed series ender. Also starring in the
show are Shane West, Lyndsy Fonseca, Melinda Clarke, Devon Sawa, and
Judd Nelson. The total runtime for the series on disc clocks in
around 253 minutes in length.
Here
are a summary of the different episodes of this season of Nikita...
Wanted:
Here we see Nikita is still on the run after being framed for the
assassination of the President of the United States. Dale (guest
star Todd Grinnell), a reporter from the news channel ENN, starts
questioning what really happened that night. Nikita sees this as an
opportunity to clear her name so she re-enters the country to talk to
Dale but walks right into a trap set by Amanda. The team is alerted
and Michael sets out to find Nikita before Amanda does. While
Birkhoff and Ryan help Michael from their new mobile office, a
high-tech aircraft, Alex stakes out a human-trafficking ring and
learns The Shop is involved...
Dead
or Alive:
Nikita reunites with Michael, Birkhoff and Ryan aboard the team's
aircraft command center. Michael refuses to discuss their
relationship but tells Nikita she should stay with the group and let
them help her clear her name. Ryan realizes Amanda is making doubles
of VIPs with The Shop's help. Nikita discovers that one of the
doubles is the Director of the FBI (guest star Alex Carter), but
doesn't know how to kill him without exposing herself...
Set-Up:
Tensions continue to escalate between the United States and Pakistan
after Amanda plants evidence that Pakistan hired Nikita to kill the
President. Ryan becomes suspicious of Birkhoff's increasingly odd
behavior and tells Nikita and Michael that he thinks Amanda may have
kidnapped Birkhoff and planted a double on the plane...
Pay-Off:
Mr. Jones benches Amanda and takes back the reigns of the operation.
He calls Nikita and offers her and the entire team complete freedom
by wiping away their identities and faking their deaths if they walk
away from their mission. The team lands the plane on a secluded
Pakistan air strip, but when the local drug czar and his men storm
the plane and demand ten million dollars, so Nikita calls Alex for
the money. After Alex pulls diamonds out of a safe deposit box to
pay the insurgents, Sam sees an opportunity to recoup his losses and
contemplates stealing the diamonds...
Bubble:
Just as Nikita is finally starting to see an end to the long war with
The Shop, Ryan confesses a secret that could unravel it all.
Meanwhile, Michael tries to get Nikita to accept their new
circumstances as he contemplates what comes next for the two of them.
Realizing Sam was planning to steal her diamonds, Alex gives him a
suitcase of fake diamonds to deliver to her contact in France. Alex
is surprised when he upholds his end of the bargain and doesn't take
off with the jewels...
Canceled:
Frustrated that MDK is still active, Nikita decides to end it her
way. Leaving Michael and the team behind, Nikita takes Alex on the
road to exact revenge. Nikita and Alex capture Mr. Jones and force
him to reveal the names of the rest of the members of MDK. Armed
with the information, Nikita goes down a dark path that may
ultimately cost her her soul. Michael tracks her down and must get
her to surrender before the military opens fire and kills her.
However, Nikita isn't one to give up on a fight, leading her to make
a shocking decision that brings it all together.
The
Picture and Sound quality on the disc are nicely presented here by
Warner. The 1080p HD-shot high definition transfer is fantastic with
crisp and clear colors with its original aspect ratio of 1.78:1 is
captured from the original broadcast masters. Audio on the disc is
also superb with a DTS-HD Master Audio lossless 5.1 track and
optional Dolby Digital and French tracks as well. Subtitles are
available in English, French, and Spanish.
No
extras are featured on the disc. I guess because they didn't have
any space left on this one disc release.
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James Harland Lockhart V
www.vimeo.com/jamielockhart
