Person of Interest (TV Series) Provenance (2014) User Reviews

Terrific episode == and they are still doing renovations

[A_Different_Drummer · 9/10 · 27 February 2015]

It is a delight as a critic to occasionally find evidence that the producers of a series are having more fun than the viewers.

This seems the case here. In other reviews I have de-constructed how the team behind the camera decided to re-do the formula for the series on the fly, in real time, and if this episode is any indication, they are on the right track.

Clearly the aim here (and this is indeed a series where the writers do seem to have their own Bucket List) was to riff off Mission Impossible. Astonishingly they do a nice job.

Anyone who has ever watched a lot of TV probably guessed the moment the beautiful Elaine Tan walked on screen that her character was being coerced -- but the real fun was in knowing that Team POI was going to have to both pull the impossible heist and rescue the child hostage being used for leverage.

Lots of places where it could have gone wrong but it did not.

And the idea of using an iPhone to show snips of Reese doing the rescue was even better than watching the real rescue.

Great entertainment

A good episode from a excellent season

[robin_lundin · 9/10 · 8 July 2016]

I think much about rating movies, series etc. is about trying to be objective and not let you're own judgment and issues blur you're view and because of this being misguided youreself resulting in misguiding others

Someone said that objectivness is the truth. And that being objetive are something we think comes pretty easy but might be the hardest thing we can do

Objectiveness and being able to ignore irrelevant details and by this accomplish a pure emotion expression is much of what i appreciate in actors, writers and directors... And Nolan seems to be very good at this there are many similarities between the batman-movies and person of interest with this in mind. In this case he also show sides that are quite new for me, showing concrete how our history in fact affect us.

"i just look forward and forget about things that have past, no reason dwelling them..." I've heard it many times and versions of it. Not a line after my own hard and i believe Nolan with this series making a strong statement about this kind of thinking.

What i base my view and rating on is. Does it affect me? does it make me laugh? does it make me cry?

i think truth, more specifically actors who are able to find the truth in the moment can do this

I also think that realism, realism in the way that can make us stop and holding our breath or stay half way with the hand to the mouth from the popcorncan is rearely but can be accomplished

This series have had a impact on me and making me believe in the good things in life, good persons and what good persons really mean, and also which is a recurrent theme, even though we have made some horrible things and we meet complex feelings about who we are, we can change. If just one good person who are not corrupted and rather die than giving in can believe in us, really believe, we can change. And that is a powerful thing to be able to mediate

The Thief

[claudio_carvalho · 7/10 · 2 March 2024]

The Machine delivers the number of the events planner Kelli Lin, who naturalized US citizen six months ago. Reese believes she might be a spy, and together with Finch and Shaw, they attend the black-tie new exhibit opening at the Metropolitan Museum of History. Soon there is a heist of a valuable Cezanne painting and Shaw chases the thief, who surprisingly is Kelli. The Interpol agent Alain Bouchard is chasing Kelli along many countries for other robberies and says that she is dangerous and has killed several people. Finch is able to track Kelli down in a bar, where she meets a man named Cyril. Finch learns that her real name is Jiao, a former Olympics medalist when she was a teenager. She gives the stolen painting to him, and Finch, Reese and Shaw learn that Lin's daughter Kai was abducted by Cyril's gang and is forcing Lin to rob for them. Further, the murders ere committed by Cyril and Lin is not aware of that. But how to retrieve Kai Lin from Cyril's gang?

"Provenance" is a reasonable episode of "Person of Interest". The plot exaggerates in Lin's heists, about forty, to be released in the end. Despite her situation with the kidnapped daughter, the number is great, over forty, to be disregarded by the authorities. There is no moral in the end. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Provenance"

What the what?

[ballookey · 6/10 · 30 September 2015]

On the one hand, there were a few things I liked about this episode, chief among them minimal Reese involvement. Thumbs up.

But there is a plot hole the size of Manhattan in it.

Ostensibly, they couldn't save the girl directly because she was in Eastern Europe so they chose to steal the bible to buy themselves some time.

And yet, Reese was part of the bible heist AND he jetted over to Eastern Europe in time to save the girl right as the bible was being handed over to her kidnappers.

If he had time to be involved in both prongs, one wonders why he didn't just skip the heist and go straight to rescue the girl? If they wanted to do a heist episode, they could have set it up much more soundly from a plotting standpoint.

This again?

[nemesis-88 · 5/10 · 12 February 2024]

A few people pointed out some goofs and plot holes of this episode. Yet the biggest one is still unsung. For some weirdest reason EVERY American "police drama" or "procedural" TV show for the past 15 years includes at least one episode where "Interpol agents" are involved. And every time those "Interpol agents" are flying to the US to do some good or bad things, catch or help bad guys, help or deceive good guys, whatever.

Problem with that is, INTERPOL DOESN'T HAVE AGENTS. At all. Interpol is 1,000 people sitting in their office (NOT in Paris, by the way) and collecting information. They can't "almost get her in Dubai", they can't "fly to New York". They do NOT work in the field. Interpol is a strictly information agency. Their official motto is "Connecting police for a safer world". So the closest "Monsieur Bouchard" could get to "catching an international thief" is by watching this episode on "Le Netflix".

Utterly stupid and lazily written

[namstonk · 1/10 · 29 March 2021]

Amazed but the whole of the episode is complete rubbish. The implausible nature is enough, but the factual impossible is even more. Scoff at a thief wearing high heels doing gymnastics, at a plane that can fly from New York to Prague in an hour, blah blah. It's been getting lazy but this is ridiculous.

Dumbest script writers EVER!!!

[alx-boychenko · 1/10 · 26 September 2014]

OK, the whole Person of Interest is cheesy alright. I'd call it cheesezilla and be sitting all sad, puking and jealous that writers are probably getting good money for such lame script. But this episode features some dumbest plot holes I could have ever imagined. Whoever wrote this, must have IQ waaaaaay below zer0. And no, I'm not referring to 3d printers capable of producing human hands with custom finger prints to pass the most advance security on the market. It's a science fiction, after all. I'm talking about "the bible heist". So it goes: we need to steal bible so we can trade it for hostage-child in Europe, as we don't have time to get across the ocean. So what they do: they do the heist, and catch the nearest flight to Europe, then do the trade, letting the bad guy hold the bible for a minute, and, at the very same minute, kidnappers are dealt with in Europe and the child is saved. Why the hell did you waste our time stealing the god damn book then? Why? It makes totally no sense! I mean, maybe it's hard to understand what I'm talking about, without actually seeing this episode, but believe me, the grade of stupidity here makes me lose faith in humanity!

Another filler episode

[interestingstuff · 17 January 2023]

This is another "filler" episode where nothing interesting happens. Not only that but the whole episode is a rip off from another popular show called White Collar. It's full of cheap cliches and it's difficult to stay engaged watching something this boring.

They should stick to their regular storyline which makes this show so great instead of trying to copycat other shows. The whole Batman thing was working well for them and they didn't need to go create an episode of White Collar.

What's the point of having 103 episodes when a large number of them are filler episodes that were made just to fill time and boost the episode count without adding anything to the storyline?