Stars: Jessica Alba, Michael Weatherly, Jennifer Blanc, Alimi Ballard

Summary: James Cameron's DARK ANGEL television series is set in a dystopian future where crime and corruption run rampant. Having escaped from a secret government project, a beautiful, young, and genetically enhanced woman named Max (Jessica Alba) is looking for her companions in a program to make humans into walking weapons. However, her former captors are looking her, too. This collection includes every episode of the first season.

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One of TV's more interesting tough-girl action shows, Dark Angelis a distinctive blend of the personal, the adventurous and the politically aware. Cocreators James Cameron (yes, that James Cameron) and Charles Eglee present a complex scenario of biological super-science and social collapse in which their gene-manipulated heroine and hacker/journalist hero can genuinely make a difference. In this first series they also provide an adversary who is a lot more than just a conventional villain.

Jessica Alba is impressive as Max, bred and trained as a super-soldier but reclaiming her individual humanity; Michael Weatherly is scruffily attractive as Eyes Only, who sits semi-paralysed in his eyrie above Seattle uncovering crime, corruption and other skulduggeries and sending the woman whom he hopelessly loves out on deadly errands. Jon Savage has real authority as Lydeker, a man who has stretched his conscience to breaking point, but is not personally corrupt. Some of the best episodes here--"Prodigy" for example--are ones in which Lydeker and Max are forced into temporary alliance. Early on the relationship between Max and the other workers at Jam Pony--the courier firm that provides her with a cover identity--is a little forced, but later on the two parts of Max's life are more successfully integrated: "Shorties in Love", for example, is a genuinely touching tale about Diamond, the doomed criminal ex-lover of Max's lesbian roommate. Dark Angelwas never a perfect show, but at its occasional best it manages to be simultaneously funny and dramatic.

On the DVD:Dark Angel, Series 1's Region 2 DVD is ungenerous with special features, providing only short interviews with James Cameron and Charles Eglee and with the stars, and giving us a preview of the Dark Angelcomputer game. The episodes are presented in widescreen and have excellent Dolby Digital sound which gives vivid presence to both the dialogue and the hard-driving contemporary rock score that is part of the show's style. --Roz Kaveney

Aspect Ratio:	16:9 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Year:	2000
Release Date:	February 24, 2003
Runtime:	919 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	23045 D V D
Keywords:	Season, Action, Dark, Six, Angel, Box, General, Wide, Screen, Set, Tv, Adventure, Futuristic, Discs
Genre:	Action/Adventure