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Basic Facts:

Episodes: 4
Runtime: 50 min.
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Premiered: 2004

Format:

Mini series

Genres:

Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Created By:

Michael W. Watkins

Actors:

Angus MacFadyen, Gage Golightly, Hamish Linklater, Kari Matchett, Nicole de Boer, Randy Quaid, Timothy Hutton

Made In:

USA

Premiered at:

SyFy

SyFy (for­mer SciFi) is very well known for bad TV movies and bad mini series. There are few excep­tions, but over­all this is a rule. And this 4 part mini series, 5ive Days To Mid­night is just above the aver­age bad qual­ity of their pro­duc­tions. It has very good idea behind it, and even man­ages to hold the story for some time, but in the end they man­aged to kill it. Cast­ing is good over­all, but this can’t save the bad production.

Story

Series is based on the time para­dox and warn­ing from the future that should save our main char­ac­ter and poten­tially destroy the uni­verse due to the para­dox itself. It’s very, very hard to make any coher­ent and log­i­cal story from any­thing that involves time travel, and movies ant TV series rarely suc­ceed in that. 5ive days man­ages to cre­ate so-​so story that works in the first two parts (ir days as they refer it as), but once they involve physics and almost crazy char­ac­ter who points to pos­si­bil­ity that uni­verse will end if they even try to pre­vent the events, things go down­hill. But, the real prob­lem is the end­ing that is just bad, and worst cliché.

Cast & Characters

Cast is really good. Tim­o­thy Hut­ton is good in the role our hero J.T. Neumeyer who is try­ing to pre­vent his own death using mate­r­ial sent from the future. I also really liked the char­ac­ter of his girl­friend Clau­dia (played by beau­ti­ful Kari Match­ett), but that’s really all as the char­ac­ter goes. Randy Quaid role of the detec­tive is both good and bad, and turns out to be the worst writ­ten char­ac­ter of the series.

Con­clu­sion

I was hope­ful with the first two parts, and was hooked up on the story and some char­ac­ters. But as the episodes go on, and on, things were get­ting bad, and ended really bad. So, no won­der you see just a low aver­age rat­ing. Any­way, it’s almost inter­est­ing watch, so give it a try, you might like it.