Product Details

• Actors: Joel Gretsch, Jacqueline McKenzie, Mahershala Ali, Patrick John Flueger, Megalyn Echikunwoke
• Directors: Aaron Lipstadt, Allison Liddi-Brown, Colin Bucksey, Fred Toye, Morgan Beggs
• Format: AC-3, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish, Portuguese
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 4
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Paramount
• DVD Release Date: May 8, 2007
• Run Time: 560 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (53 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000MX7V66
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,299 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The 4400 - The Complete Third Season" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Season two of The 4400 ended not with one, but two shockers. First, baby Isabelle turned into a 20-year-old overnight (now played by Megalyn Echikunwoke). Then, it was revealed that Jordan Collier (Billy Campbell), who was believed dead, is still alive. The third year begins with more surprises. While Isabelle was aging, so was her mother, Lily (Tippi Hedren, replacing Laura Allen), who fast-forwards several decades. Suffice to say, her husband, Richard (Mahershalalhashbaz Ali), is not pleased. Also, the Nova Group, a splinter organization within the 4400, has started to eliminate those they perceive as their enemies—including their own. The 4400's third season was widely considered its weakest, but solid ratings justified a fourth. The pace doesn't pick up until Jordan's return--in real life, Campbell took off 13 months to sail the world--but the concept and the characters remain intriguing. For instance, Shawn (Patrick Flueger), head of the 4400 Center, embarks on a relationship with Isabelle, while his uncle, NTAC agent Tom (Joel Gretsch), gets bad news about wife Alana (Karina Lombard) and good news about son Kyle (Chad Faust). Dennis Ryland (Peter Coyote), meanwhile, moves from the NTAC into the private sector where he continues to micro-manage the 4400.

Recurring characters include Gary Navarro (Sharif Atkins), who joins the Nova Group, Dr. Burkoff (Jeffrey Combs), who injects himself with promicin--the mysterious substance associated with the 4400--and the sympathetic Tess (Summer Glau), who assists in his attempt to see if he can develop similar powers. Guest stars include Alice Krige (Star Trek: First Contact) as a woman with a special interest in Diana's adopted daughter Maia ("Gone") and Brian Dennehy (Cocoon) as Tom's father ("Blink"). As with season two, three features commentary from the cast and crew plus a trio of featurettes. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Product Description

Four thousand-four hundred people missing from around the world return together in one place, on one day.
Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 8-MAY-2007
Media Type: DVD

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36 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars True 4400 fan, April 3, 2007

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Kelly Elise "Avid reader" (Austin, Tx) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The 4400 - The Complete Third Season (DVD)

I'm sorry, I plead addiction, but I have loved this series from its first episode. And I still remain true to it. The writing is excellent, the characters are believable and you can really connect with them. But the best part is the mystery of the whole thing. All the questions that bubble to the surface of your mind when you're watching the show. It keeps you on the edge of your seat, hungering for more. It is a show that really makes you think, and I love that. Some people didn't like this particular season as much as the first two because they didn't understand that the show is still climbling toward the climax. Things aren't picture perfect, but they ARE interesting. My only complaint is that it is too short, here is the list of episodes....
1. The New World, Part 1
2. The New World, Part 2
3. Being Tom Baldwin
4. Gone, Part 1
5. Gone, Part 2
6. Graduation Day
7. The Home Front
8. Blink
9. The Ballad of Kevin and Tess
10. The Starzl Mutation
11. The Gospel According to Collier
12. Terrible Swift Sword
13. Fifty-fifty

22 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Set in stone, February 5, 2007

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Jeff Bajorek (Pennsylvania, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The 4400 - The Complete Third Season (DVD)

Season three was very good - though it made the writers theory set in stone (as in they are from the future, religious twist, etc)...
The first two were based more on ones perception on how the events unfolded, but the third was pretty clear where the writers were coming from.
It was a very intereseting season, and I am anxious for season 4.

-Jwbajorek

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Is the future inhabited by mental cases?, May 29, 2007

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Epi Man (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The 4400 - The Complete Third Season (DVD)

I enjoyed the first 2 seasons of this show and think the premise is generally interesting. However, I think the writers are having a difficult time communicating their vision or, like many shows with great premises, are making it up as they go along. Below I detail what are some of the problems dragging down the generally good dialogue and good individual episodes. If you can look past the problems in the story arcs, the majority of episodes remain very good if you don't think about it.

SPOILERS ALERT
So, in this season we learn that in the future there is technology of such an amazing degree that they can send people back in time regularly and have the ability to give humans amazing and important super powers, but they can't solve their own meager problems. We don't know what future catastrophe they are trying to evade (but in one episode we find that an amazing leap in our level of scientific knowledge may help), but we know the dystopia they face is a world with one city that is powerful and "ok" with walls keeping out the rest who presumably are not so well off. We don't know who sent back the 4400, or Isabelle (who has a mission to eradicate the 4400s). Was it is the city or those out of the city? If its those outside the city, the plot makes no sense since that means they have this incredible technology and aren't using it, if it is the city why don't they just start helping the people outside the walls? I think we are supposed to believe the city is evil and hoarding all the resources (except world changing technology...), and those outside the city are trying to avert the current state. But, its not clear yet and it does not need to be clear. If it ever is it might make sense, but I'm really starting to doubt it.

So, problems like this are nagging at the show, and I don't get the feeling that the writers have good coherent answers after this season.

The show also has occasional religious overtones, which are amusing but mostly embarrassing. I confess that if someone had the power to heal we would no doubt revere that person and possibly worship them...unless we knew how they did it. We admire science but don't worship it. In this show every person who watches the news now knows that the 4400s have their powers due to specific generally understood scientific reasons. It would make as much sense to worship the iPhone or your doctor when they give you antibiotics as to revere the 4400. The fact that the writers can't make this distinction between science, religion, and the supernatural is awkward.

Mia. Mia can see the future. This ruins about 80% of the plot episodes, if they acknowledged it. But they don't, but we know she can so it really is always an ever present plot hole. During this season Mia supposedly even gets so she can control her ability, making many of the dilemmas even more ridiculous.

Isabelle. Supposedly Isabelle is a super genius based on the first few episodes but devolves into someone with the mind of a 10 year old that is always making sub-par decisions. I like her role on the show, and personally since I have decided the 4400 are the catastrophe root for her to destroy them all, but her being a genius one episode and then a dimwit for most of the season is tiresome and disrespectful to the audience.

There are other problems of course. The amorality of Collier, the dramatic personality change of the neuroscientist on the show, and the useless end result produced by Colliers big plan. So, now there will be 11,000 "4400s" instead of 4400? Hmmm....why does that matter? Why didn't the future people just send back 10,000 to start with and save all the internecine fighting?

Despite these complaints, I will continue to follow the show and think it still beats many things out there. But it always saddens me when the wheels come off a potentially fantastic chassis.