Jake 2.0
Year of release : 2003
Run time : 42min, 16 episodes,1 season
Genre : Sci Fi / Action
Cast : Christopher Gorham, Keegan Connor Tracy
Computer expert Jake Foley who works for NSA would love to be where the action is, but unfortunately, his work is done before the action starts.
He has a friend who lies to women he's a spy to get dates.
Jake meets his college crush on a night out with said friend,but he's afraid to ask her out. She does ask him to fix her computer.
At work,he walks in when a guy who worked there for 3 years was trying to smuggle important research out, and while thinking fast, and saving the day, he gets wounded by these nanobites.
Soon after, Jake is enhanced, he can see and hear better, rooms away, can jump high,and interact with computers of any kind, making them do what he wants.
The ones after the technology kidnap his crush,and Jake has to go rescue her, but he has to escape the NSA holding cell first.
Episode 2
Jake is training at the NSA to become a spy,as the nanotechnology gave him superhuman powers,but so far, he's not good enough. He even goes on a mission ,to find information from the girl he likes. But, he might get an unexpected chance to actually prove himself.
Episode 3
Jake seems to be interested in Sarah,while his doctor seems interested in him.
Kyle is asked to look up a former flame,a Chinese agent, he didn't see in two years and a half when he bailed on her,who might be holding a grudge.
Jake gets his first mission as a waiter at the Chinese event Kyle goes to,to meet his former flame. When things go South, and he's told to bail on Kyle, Jake makes a bold decision.
Episode 4
The NSA is tracking down a notorious arms dealer who is trying to sing a deal with a terrorist group. Jake's mission is to tail the arms dealer's daughter who is a painter who works in restorations.
Being pretty,Jake falls for her, as she also seems interested in him, and invites him over to paint,or just to have dinner.
Episode 5
Hackers steal millions from the Federal Reserve Bank,and Jake recognizes the video game the hackers used as their logo. Jake plays the online video game for 18 hours and they finally trace one of the hackers, DuMont, imprisoning him.
Being a nerd, Jake offers to be the spy sent to Germany to pose as DuMont. He finds out they plan a terrorist attack on a plane.
Episode 6
The mice which were injected with nanobites are either dead or paralyzed, and Diana is worried. She rushes with a team to Jake's place, but he's fine. He's got a wedding to attend! His on and off crush, Sarah, is invited too, they share a cab,but she comes with her date!
His best friend is getting married, and he has the responsibility of giving the speech.
Diana is monitoring him, and worries. So she goes after him.And poses as his date.
Jake starts seeing a man who is after him,and trying to..k1ll him?!
Episode 7
Jake and his team are on a mission to capture a terr0rist group who wants to bomb the subway. They manage to stop the attack,and take the son of the militia leader,who lost his FBI wife,and blames the government for her death.
Jake tries to get through the terr0rist's son.
At home, Jake is visited by his younger and crazy brother,who keeps on getting into trouble, also getting Jake into trouble (he almost burnt his house down, got into a car accident with the police,pretending to be Jake,and gets kidnapped by the militia,pretending to be Jake).
Episode 8
An intercepted call makes the NSA believe a very dangerous Polish mercenary is in Washington, wanting a nanotechnology project or a scientist.
Diana is dating an NSA agent, and Jake seems jealous. Although he's dating Sarah. They end up bumping into each other at a carnival.
Jake gets cut by the mercenary,but he heals pretty fast. Diana feels remorse for not being at the office when Jake was brought in,to be checked.
Episode 9
While on a mission to stop a bank attack, Jake shows he doesn't obey authority,but he saves the day.
A nuclear bomb is stolen from a military base, and the department director Louise Beckett (played by Judith Scott,who played in Guess Who,and was amazing!) sends Jake, as he is the man for the challenge,and..he needs discipline.
Jake needs to infiltrate the Wolf Pack and find out who did it.
Although he bested every challenge, his Wolf Pack strips him down,and ties him to a tree all night. When he comes back with a vengeance, he is bested and made to dig holes. Jake decides to turn this on them,to gain their respect.
He gets accepted and cut by the Wolf Pack,as they all have a wolf scar cut on them, which amazingly, doesn't heal fast,and leaves a scar...movies!
Episode 10
Jake and his special team are under investigation by their superiors,in what they call an 'inquiry'.
3 vials of nitrous varcon (?!),a dangerous V series nerve agent, were stolen from a lab,by a blonde woman.
They are sent to Santa Costa (a made up country) ,where Jake thinks he saw the buyer and the seller, and his team apprehend them.
Thinking the mission is over, Jake goes to a bar where he meets a woman he ends up sleeping with.How romantic! Before the mission Jake wonders if he can have s3x,having the nanites in his body. Diana tests him,and gives him the go,so, he has a one night stand with a stranger in a foreign country (one of the worst s3x scenes ever).
Turns out his one night stand is the perpetrator they were looking for.
This was one of the worst episodes of the series,regarding plot ( Jake has a one night stand with this stranger,and then is on her side,when he's supposed to be the good guy(not to mention working for NSA,so he's not supposed to trust anyone,or easily trust,not to mention,fall in love at first sight,like a teen! ). I personally lose my interest in the lead after such things,as I find this-one night stands- animalistic behavior),where it was filmed -it supposed to be an exotic country but it looks like the same place they've been filming all along (like my gram's country side!),the colors, the cinematography...it's supposed to be an exotic country,but you can see the steam coming out of their mouths! We're supposed to have suspension of disbelief,and not think of what's going on,because it's just a movie, but I could never watch something,like a dumb drone,without thinking of what's going on! Also,they have the fastest flash forwards of the series in this one- a visual effect I always hated! I don't know what visual effect they used on the episode regarding the flash backs but it's awful! The colors are ugly and it's not clear!
Episode 11
After the inquiry, the NSA superiors are spying on Jake's team. Kyle, who was always a fan of Jake,Diana and the department director Louise Beckett, want to give him a new identity,if the programme is shut down, as,as Kyle put it, Jake is the programme and things won't end well for him. Jake thinks about it.
In South Kembu(another made up country in Africa) a paramilitary faction is taking over the democratic government established by king Namir. Jake is assigned with being his son's bodyguard.
Jake goes back to college, as the prince is in college,and gives Jake a hard time. Although in danger, the prince doesn't want to be protected, and even wants to have a birthday party.
He has a big birthday party where he is almost k1lled and finally comes to his senses.
When his father is k1lled,the government lifts his protection, as now they deal with the new leader. Which shows us how disgusting politics are.
Episode 12
The NSA are after an ex soviet agent who went rogue when the Berlin wall fell.
The NSA ask for the help of a retired NSA agent.The retired agent retired in 1988,and was active for 30 years,so he's supposed to be 65-70,but he doesn't look it. Why would anyone want the help of an old man?! This is what happens when you don't have a good script and you expect your audience to suspend their disbelief.
The retired agent works with Jake and finds all the women attractive. He wastes the NSA money on a
car,and then in a casino,where he asks Jake to tell some Russians what he wrote ,so they'll beat him up.
The man seems to be a double agent, but there might be more to the story.
The retired agent shows up at the NSA saying he's been in Finland doing consulting work,and has never met them before,talking about the soviet programme of creating doubles of the american agents.He allows them to do some tests, to see who he really is.
Episode 13
Jake wakes up in bed with a beautiful woman,having no idea how he got there,or who he is. There's pictures of them everywhere, and he has a wedding ring on his finger, while the woman says she's his wife. He doesn't remember anything.
One day earlier, Jake had an appointment with the department's shrink.
A computer virus of unknown origin had breached the firewall of the NSA. They had to shut down the communication grid and surveillance, as Jake instructed them to go offline.
Jake recognized the virus' signature, and goes to DuMont who's been in jail for 5 months. Although of average looks, apparently DuMont's doing great with the ladies, as he has another girlfriend (eye roll) who's a hacker.
DuMont offers to help,if they reduce his sentence. Turned out it was a trap for Jake,as they attacked him with a signal.
Present day, DuMont lies to Jake he is his best friend, and that his girlfriend is Jake's wife. Turns out the virus was a decoy.
Jake starts to suspect there's something wrong, as the things the two are telling him don't make sense,as they keep on telling him things which don't add up( she always had a crush on him,but she realized she fell in love with him after they started dating...what?!).
Apparently, DuMont wants the nanobites in Jake,so basically,his powers (it's amazing how the hacker is also a scientist! eye roll).
Episode 14
Left without a memory, Jake finds a job as a fighter in the fight club of a club.
Trying to find him, his friends at the NSA, put a shoot to k1ll order on him,so the police could get him into custody before he hurts himself or someone else.
Diana tracks him with the device she created herself, and goes after him. Jake doesn't remember her, and she tries to get to him by befriending him,so she won't scare him away. She gains his trust,and the NSA let her convince him to come home with her.
Episode 15
Director Warner wants to create a new Jake, giving nanites to a new agent.
Jake is sent in the field in Serbia,to retrieve an agent they thought to be dead for the past 5 years. Not just that, the agent was department director Louise Beckett's former boyfriend,and she was the one who made the call to leave him behind,as his team thought him to be dead.
The rescue mission leaves Jake with serious burns on most of his body,unable to recover,as the doctor assigned to him keeps him in a blue liquid (poly 3?) and gives him morphine,keeping him drugged up.
That doesn't stop him from doing his job,trying to protect his team.
Episode 16
Director Warner wants to team up with DuMont (I don't understand why this character is still aliv3),as she can't stand Jake.
Jake is assigned to protect an activist and diplomat, and one of Diana's favorites. When Diana meets him,the man is trying to have s3x with her.
Jake catches the assassin sent by a clan,and turns out the man doesn't want to be a k1ller.
One thing that stroke me watching these series, is there are a lot of strong,independent women,who are in positions of power,leading men,giving men orders, and no men dare to speak or talk down to them. This happened 20+ years ago,while Hollywood newcomers tell us there were no strong women leads until they arrived ( see jennifer lawrence) .
At first I didn't like these series. I tried to watch it many years ago, and gave up,for I found it so dumb. I was correct,it's a pretty bad movie. The plot is very predictable. But..it gets better with every new episode.
Everything looks cheap and the same, like in the same city or town they say it's the US ,but they tell us it's some exotic country!
The clothes were ugly.
In every new episode they try to forge a romance, when it's not Jake with Sarah,it's Jake with some other beautiful girl,and if it's not him,it's Kyle! They just make Jake seem weak,unreliable, as in, he doesn't really love Sarah,he just wants a girlfriend,and wants her because she's pretty. And whenever he sees a pretty girl, he wants that particular pretty girl! I personally like Diana,so I'm team Diana all the way!
I didn't like the credits intro.
The acting was so and so,from some actors good,from some, not so good. The lead was fine ,but at times I really didn't like how he was acting .
I personally don't like how the actor who plays Kyle acts,especially in intense scenes. There's a torture scene in episode 4,he just made me laugh,as the torture was so fake, no blood,everything was off screen,it was such a joke. I guess he was asked to act tired,hurt, but he was so bad at it,not to mention,there was nothing wrong with him, he didn't have blood on him, his clothes looked fine,I was actually wondering why is he acting that way,his body hurt from being tied to the chair?!
When he's not in intense scenes, he seems to be speaking like an anchorman.
The visual effects are so and so,probably Ok for a 2003 television series. There's a plane scene in episode 5 and it looks so fake!!
The soundtrack was bad, and it was on all the time,the movie felt like it didn't have any moment of silence. Even when he was in danger or the moments were suspenseful, this awful music was on,which didn't match.
You can watch Jake 2.0 on DailyMotion for free, and you can buy it on Amazon.
Rating : Could have been a contender !
