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Millennium: Seasons 1-3 (18pc) (Dub Sub Dol) | 
 enlarge | Actor: Lance Henriksen
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 8345
Format: Box Set, Color, Dolby, Closed-captioned
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 18
Running Time: 25 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.5 x 2.7
MPN: 2255307
UPC: 024543553076
EAN: 0024543553076
ASIN: B001CY5N00
Release Date: October 28, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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 Whats New Here? Nathing Special on the box? September 29, 2008
E. Mora (Miami, FL United States)
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
Iam a big fan of millennium, I have the 3 seasons box, and are great, the design, the menus, the subtitles, all are great, so whats the special on this box? Blue Ray? any special bonus disc? I dont see any special box just a simple box, If I buy its just for collector, but I dont see any reason for buy this...
 "there's death everywhere these days...but what gives human life its worth anyway?" September 12, 2008
harry salzberg (milford delaware)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
that's not a quote from millennium...it's actually from 'angel heart', spoken by robert DeNiro...but the line sums up what's at the core of this unusual series...rather than go episode by episode or season by season, this reviewer will use quotes from a few other movies to give a feeling of what happens here:
1) "WHAT'S YOUR IDEA OF A FRIEND?....ANY MAN, WHO BELIEVES AS I DO, THAT THE HUMAN RACE IS A HORRIBLE MISTAKE." from canyon passage, 1946.
2) "PEOPLE WERE ALWAYS ROTTEN" from soylent green, 1973
3) "YOU'RE AN ANIMAL..NO,WORSE..HUMAN" from runaway train, 1986
4) "THE FUTURE ISN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE" from angel heart 1987
MILLENNIUM is about frank black's ability to see evil and act on his visions...it is about his attempt to walk the line and stay sane..in Lance Henriksen's own words, "Man, it took me a year to get out of that. With effort. The first thing I did was go to Hawaii and get two tattoos. One is a shark, the other dolphins. I felt attacked, and I felt like a beast. It was dark stuff. I think if we had gone on another year, it really would have taken hold."
MILLENNIUM is about the end of the world and so ultimately it is about death...Without armageddon though, life goes on...thus, "the world ends..not with a bang but with a whimper" -- our own.
...now, mark snow's theme song...it, along with the opening of brahms' 1st symphony, is one of the most poignant and schizophrenic 45 seconds of music you will ever hear -- confident and terrifying, sweet and dangerous, hopeful and futile.
MIDNIGHT OF THE CENTURY September 9, 2008
Mr. B. Renshaw (ENGLAND)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
***spoilers follow***
MILLENNIUM is at first a product of its times, a manifestation of the mid to late nineties fear of what Y2K could bring. Its easy to look back now in hindsight and dismiss millennial tension as group hysteria, but there were a great many people who had serious concerns of what could happen, and looked for answers
It's also easy to dismiss its innovative mature and sombre tone when it has been copied to lesser effect in the last ten years with other procedural shows like CSI and COLD CASE.
Chris Carter concieved MILLENNIUM to be like the feature films SILENCE OF THE LAMBS or SEVEN but on a weekly format. No aliens or govermental conspiracies like his X-FILES, but a psychological exploration of the nature of evil, of one man's ability to see into the thought processes of the worst of humanity. Frank Black's gift was not psychic in nature but an accute understanding of the heart of darkness: "I become capability. I become the horror -- what we know we can become only in our heart of darkness. It's my gift. It's my curse. That's why I retired."
Lance Henrikson plays ex-FBI agent Frank Black perfectly, a man who was driven to a nervous breakdown when he realized he could no longer keep his family safe from the evil he was helping to fight. He only returns to work with the help of the Millennium Group and the support of his wife, who realises he can't just sit back and wait for a happy ending. Their symbolic yellow house becomes not just a sanctuary but a fragile treasure in Franks mind, one that is threatened as his investigations continue. Evil takes a personal interest in him, tempting him to join it, and we see the toll his resistence to that evil has on his life.
The psychological aspect is what I believe Chris Carter was more interested in, however when Season two began, Carter was concentrating on the first X Files movie, and X-Files script writers/producers Morgan and Wong took over. They moved the focus away from the psychological aspect and more onto the supernatural and mythological nature of the Millennium Group itself. Over that one season (instead of five whch would have been perhaps more believable as a narrative) the Group turned from a noble company of ex-law enforcement agents (like the real life Academy Group) into a fractured quasi-religious cult, founded at the time of Christ's crucifixtion, with an agenda to not just wait for an apocalypse but to pre-empt it. At the end of the second season, the writers introduced a deadly ebola-type virus, supposedly manufactured by the group itself, that apparently wipes out half the world, as well as claiming the life of Catherine Black. At the end of that season, the world has ended, and the writers effectively ruined the concept of the show.
Season three, back now in the hands of Chris Carter, starts off without making any real reference to the virus outbreak, with Frank back at the FBI, until a few episodes in when its revealed it was only a media panic over a few isolated cases rather than the real apocalypse. The SOUND OF SNOW is particulary a heart-wrenching episode where Frank finally deals with his wifes death. Try as they might, despite some exceptional work, the show never recovers from the loss of Megan Gallagher, the loss of the symbolism of the yellow house, or the change of Millennium Group to religious conspiracy cult. After the Group begin to execute those members deemed too dangerous to their agenda, Frank goes on the run with his daughter Jordan, driving down a road to an uncertain future. And the less said about the X-Files crossover episode the better.
These DVD's are still a must buy for any fan of dramatic storytelling, because even the worst episodes are better than 90% of current tv. If you like CSI, 24 and all of the other procedural shows, you'll like this. They're excellently put together with commentaries and documentaries, which especially give you a palpable sense of the frustration felt by the actors and Chris Carter of how great the show could have been if allowed to grow at its own pace. Regardless of its faults, MILLENNIUM is a special show, the level of acting and production elevating it over any inconsistancies of series narrative.
These DVD's have also helped bring the show to those who may have missed it, or were too young to have seen it first time round. Since the first episode was broadcast in 1996, it has garnered a growing and dedicated fan community, centered around the websites www.fourthhorsemanpress.com/Abyss and www.millennium-thisiswhoweare.net, and the forum at www.tiwwa.info.
Fans also created the first critically acclaimed Virtual Season, season 4, shortly after the shows cancellation, producing professionally written and formatted televsion scripts released on a weekly basis, in 1999. This was followed by Virtual Season 5 and and VS6 and 7 are concurrently in development, intending to give full closure to Frank Black's story that we never had the chance to see in the show.
All this highlights just how powerful a show MILLENNIUM was, and how relevant it still is. As Lance Henrikson says in the DVD documentary, he feels the show was unfulfilled, a missed opportunity. MILLENNIUM still haunts him.
MILLENNIUM will haunt you long after you've watched it, but for all the right reasons.
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