Hawaii Five-0 (TV Series) Aloha Ke Kahi I Ke Kahi (2013) User Reviews

Good season opener

[dzip4422 · 7/10 · 27 October 2013]

There are so many things in this season opener that it is hard to start. They open up many story lines, while not completing previous ones. Charlie Fong is never heard of again, and it takes a few episodes to know what happens to McGarrett's mom. However, with the many story lines that are presented in this, this leaves a gaggle of possibilities for the next season, which is good and is what a season opener should be; leaving story lines open to completion to be filled in at the rest of the season.

The premise of this episode (their really isn't much of a case involved) is amazing. The combat is good and McGarrett does something amazing yet again.

This episode does have the what I like to call "watch two times trait". Basically you have to watch this episode two times to get all the story lines or how the case works, but after the second time of watching, you understand it all it you probably won't re watch it again for a very long time. This happens with almost all episodes in Hawaii five-0, but this happening to the second season opener in a row is rather disheartening.

Steve Made Me Very Mad At Him

[shelbythuylinh · 7/10 · 28 November 2021]

Sure he had to save his girlfriend Catherine from terrorists NLM, and also in the trying to break them out and assault Grover and SWAT there.

Really love that Grover called Steve out on his breaking laws and really if I were Danny I would really had call him out on that too but he stood by him.

This was about in the national security laws as well as also realizing that Catherine is not the only one. Steve threw down his weight and really wished that Grover could had put Steve in a pair of handcuffs there. In the end there.

Yeah Steve you had rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. Really beginning of the end of my like for him and respect.

Utter insanity

[manoedano · 6/10 · 31 October 2016]

The episode starts out sensibly enough, with Steve meeting Wo Fat in prison. However, it very quickly descends into chaos as, following an armed assault on Fat's cell, the palace is besieged by revolutionaries. Here, it gets tense, the air electrified with the threat posed by these complex crims. Cho Min is suitably cool, infiltrating the situation and trying, quietly to diffuse it. However, in the second half of the episode, it gets downright farcical, with Steve and Danno committing a huge number of crimes that would see any other cop court-martialed.

He drives recklessly, speeding through Honolulu, and, when given a ransom for a loved one, he hijacks an armoured car, assaulting Grover and releasing prisoners. But then, this is a show where cops shoot down and kill more criminals than they capture. Although, you have to question the sanity of the Hawaii Five-O when its founder throws a man out of a helicopter and then tries to land it. You're not Bond, McGarrett.

New Season-Great Start ****

[edwagreen · 28 September 2013]

Our new season begins with Wo Fat escaping, as usual, and the 5-O headquarters being taken over by terrorists who of course create mayhem, screaming and fear throughout the building when they invade it.

Kono is off on the seas with her lover after he has killed his brother. By the episode's end, she is warned to get out, but is it too late?

McGarrett shows his love for his fellow lady-officer when he saves her from the terrorists. This even meant stepping on the toes of a new official in town.

What's going on with Doris? Why did she visit Wo Fat in prison? What's this about him being a possible brother to McGarrett? Wow! What's going on here. Was Doris up to some extra hours activities years back? Only the season can answer these questions.

What's wrong with these terrorists...

[WZNGT · 5/10 · 26 May 2020]

I am not gonna argue too much about the madness of McGarret climb onto the skid of the heli, thorwing two terrorists off and shoot the pilot at the end. Just why the hell did they put the niece of NLM's leader in the hit squad at the first place, and then having to go through all the trouble to just kill him??? If you talk about the data hacking... since when a headless local Yakuza have that type of power plus connection to NLM and being able to involving the hit on FIVE-O HQ?

Great Start But Still Steve Broke Way Too Many Laws!

[ShelbyTMItchell · 29 September 2013]

Despite the fact that Five 0 was broken into. As Steve had to break so many laws. After Five 0 was broken into. And HPD get them out of trouble. Another plot was that Catherine was being held by the terrorists against her will.

Steve broke IMHO way too many laws. Sure it is such a TV show. By letting the terrorists out and stopping the SWAT truck with new recurring character, Chi McBride and team for doing so. As really like the McBride character. As glad he called Steve out for breaking those laws only to get Catherine out.

There was national security on the line with the terrorists forcing Steve to go against the law. Sometimes Steve thinks he is above the law. When really someone needs to take him down a notch.

In all a great start to a fourth season as HPD has to do the paperwork and Five-0 grabs a beer. BTW, RIP Camaro!

Worst Episode ever

[soxlade · 2/10 · 4 October 2013]

THIS REVIEW IS FULL OF SPOILERS - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

Okay let's start with the good - the stunts were impressive and there was a decent amount of destruction going on.

Hem, that's it. This was by some way the worst episode of this up and down series yet - and yes that includes the episodes where Steve stages a one man invasion of North Korea...

SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT

Can anyone explain to me the plan of the terrorists? So they knew where Wo-Fat was being held and were able to storm a massively defended prison cell (with only four guys - okay), but they then storm a second well defended target to shoot the one surviving member of the original storming team? Or was the data download of Kono's location their real target? So they were in the employ of the Yakuza?, so why the suicide pact?

Okay, let's chalk that one up to the on-going plot madness.

Where did the machine-guns come from? The terrorists were set free by McGarrett and Danno and flee in Danny's Camaro, followed by Chin-Ho. Next time they stop the car, all four of them have long barrel full-auto rifles. Presumably they didn't stop somewhere and buy them (as Chin-Ho would have, I hope, noticed), where did they come from? Steve's secret stash in the trunk?

Nope, poor writing that's where that came from. And GM's requirement that Danny stops driving a 4-year old model of car, maybe?

Let's not even try to figure out how three big blokes and one girl are all able to get out of a two-door coupe, with long barrel weaponry, and while firing on a target? Not a chance.

It got worse, amazingly.

So the NLM big bad is on the island and has been there long enough to engineer a breakdown in Katherine's Corvette in order to kidnap her, but not long enough to charter a helicopter or boat, or rent some form of safe-house. Instead they steal a TV helicopter. Why? Hawaii's full of charter helicopter businesses, we've seen them enough in the series - Hell, Kamekona's got one. Why steal a helicopter that is guaranteed to be missed by its owners? OK, maybe it's the only one they could steal, but if you have a stolen helicopter, surely landing it in the middle of the local football stadium is not the most subtle of hiding places?

Anyway, so you are the terrorists and you've gotten clean away - Chin's car's shot to pieces, the Camaro is on fire, Steve and Danny are in a van, and all three of them say the bad guys have gotten away. So why not drive like a lunatic?

Oh and you've got a van with five compatriots in it heading for a helicopter that has four, maybe five seats, but already has one pilot and one armed goon sitting on the halfway line, waiting.

Basically it's one of the worst thought out 'bad guy plan' I've seen in a long time. I'm not a pedant, I'm more than happy to let plot holes pass by, but this episode was an insult to my intelligence. It was rushed, sloppy, shoddy and frankly terrible.

Action aside, which was nicely staged, and Chi McBride's introduction, this was a terrible episode. I can only hope it improves.