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(Free-Press-Release.com) August 8, 2010 -- Criminal Minds is by no means an original idea.

The story could be applicable to any number of cop dramas and at times even drifts into an ER/Chicago Hope type melodrama (ex. when Thomas Gibson and Mathew Gray Gubler are held hostage in the EMERGENCY ROOM.). However it has received a lot of critical praise and took some awards this year I believe.

What makes this show is the acting. Mandy Patinkin could probably carry the show on his own, he's an incredible actor and I've been a huge fan since I saw him in his role as Che. Thomas Gibson has almost redeemed himself as Greg from the nauseating TV comedy Darma and Greg, but at times I still just want to yank him through the television screen and slap the hell out of him for screwing up good scenes with Patinkin and Gubler.

Mathew Gray Gubler, the only new face for me from the bunch, has simply bowled me over in his interesting take on a Las Vegas child prodigy. He get's beaten up by Gibson's character pretty badly in one episode and when he tries to apologize Gubler says, "I was a 12 year-old child prodigy in a Las Vegas public school; you kick like a girl Hotch."

I though it was hilarious, maybe just me. The only other stand out actor is Shemar Moore, which you remember from a bunch of the worst crap you've ever seen. Moore has never been presented a role that didn't require him to stretch this little and thusly he seems to shine but that's only because you just keep waiting from some Day's Of Our Lives dribble to spill from his lips. A.J. Cook and Kirsten Vangsness playing Garcia (YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE HOW HARD IT IS TO FIND KIRSTEN'S NAME! LONG LIVE GARCIA, MASTER OF UNFETTERED OMNIPOTENCE!) are both good scenery, though it looks like Vangsness is going to taking on a much larger role in the second season, she even get's her name in the opening credits where it belongs.

As for the cinematography on this one, they pitifully attempt to use CGI, it really is that bad. Some of the shots from the first two episodes where neat, but you see them in every subsequent episode, it's pretty standard hackny-television production values and shots. The plots are fairly engaging but some times un-original and predictable. All in all I would give the show five out of ten stars, not bad but not great. However the characters in this show have really pulled me in and I love some of these actors. I would have to give the show an eight out of ten just because the acting is so good on Patinkin and Gubler's parts. It's rare you see there caliber of acting on television.

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