Any of us 5-0-heads who do things like write reviews on the shows will find this to be familiar ground. Cartoonish monster comes from Chicago/Detroit/Cleveland to expand business in the islands only to be foiled by McGarrett and crew. We've seen this show before- I think it was just this type of show that Kam Fong was thinking of when he left the show because the stories were repetitive.
This episode had the chance to do something a little different but the main thing that's different is how stupidly the protagonist acts. I thought in the first 10 minutes when he is trying to buy a football team to launder his money and breaks the QB's shoulder as a warning to the owner was going to lead somewhere. All it led to was Chin putting him on surveillance at a golf course where Jovanko goes ape-crap crazy when he sees it, then getting more angry when he's working out some other deal and spots the boys on his tail.
All I could think of was, this guy is supposed to be some stone-cold mobster and he freaks out every time he sees a cop watching him? I'm sure the Cleveland PD must have spent at least some time in surveillance on him, but he acts like he's shocked a cop might be eyeing him.
Also, the end where he tries to kill McGarrett was almost laughable. He checks in the hospital under his own ID and expects no one will notice that the guy who just tried to kill every 5-0 cop happens to be admitted to the same hospital? Being a monster in Cleveland must not have an entrance exam.
This episode had the chance to do something a little different but the main thing that's different is how stupidly the protagonist acts. I thought in the first 10 minutes when he is trying to buy a football team to launder his money and breaks the QB's shoulder as a warning to the owner was going to lead somewhere. All it led to was Chin putting him on surveillance at a golf course where Jovanko goes ape-crap crazy when he sees it, then getting more angry when he's working out some other deal and spots the boys on his tail.
All I could think of was, this guy is supposed to be some stone-cold mobster and he freaks out every time he sees a cop watching him? I'm sure the Cleveland PD must have spent at least some time in surveillance on him, but he acts like he's shocked a cop might be eyeing him.
Also, the end where he tries to kill McGarrett was almost laughable. He checks in the hospital under his own ID and expects no one will notice that the guy who just tried to kill every 5-0 cop happens to be admitted to the same hospital? Being a monster in Cleveland must not have an entrance exam.