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Remake faithfully exhumes cop drama for the 21st century
by Hank Stuever Is there some sort of word
(German, probably — not Hawai- ian) that defines that mixture of dread and curiosity at the news that producers are exhuming an- other of the beloved old TV shows for a tricked-out remake? Smurfensruden, perhaps? Be- witchenfreude?
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I ask because of the nice-’n’- easy surprise that turned out to be “Hawaii Five-0,” CBS’s snazzy re-imagining of the old Leonard Freeman cop drama (premiering Monday night), in spite of so much scoff and scorn that greet- ed the idea. “Hawaii Five-0” is a big bag of dumb fun, with a story told as tautly and smoothly as the surface of a Polynesian drum. It wastes no time setting itself up as a macho thriller for the 21st-century globalized terror- scape, yet it is surprisingly faith- ful to the basic story of the origi- nal, which starred Jack Lord and aired from 1968 to 1980 — about which the only thing I remember (besides the theme song, which high school brass sections still perform at football games) is that my father ditched watching it for “Charlie’s Angels,” without a word of protest from others in the family room. To be honest, we were really more of a “Sheriff Lo- bo” sort of family. “Hawaii Five-0” succeeds mostly because it steers clear of sacrilege and gently ushers an old friend into a more kinetic form, a genre that has more physical and stylistic demands: The theme song has been up- dated to today’s hyper-tempo standards while the camera
zooms in on the new Steve McGarrett atop a Honolulu high rise, the same way the old one did. The new “H50” conducts itself in a deadly serious manner, as if it were subcontracted by the Pen- tagon. Steve McGarrett is now played by 34-year-old Australian actor Alex O’Loughlin, who was on CBS’s failed “Three Rivers” hospital drama last season, and also co-starred in Jennifer Lo- pez’s most recent romantic com- edy film.His fan base strongly be- lieves O’Loughlin is hot to trot, but his screen presence seems so completely cardboard that I think he should have This Side Up tattooed on his abs. But here, a stiff McGarrett is
the way to go. Like Lord’s version, McGarrett is a Navy SEAL intelli- gence officer of some sort, but this time out huntin’ terrorists. Having nabbed a member of a particularly pernicious Euro ter- rorist gang in South Korea, McGarrett is transporting the prisoner back to the States when he learns that the prisoner’s brother is holding McGarrett’s fa- ther hostage in Honolulu. (Drat!) The standoff becomes a gun-
fight. Via cellphone, McGarrett hears the terrorists execute his father. To Hawaii then, where, after the funeral, the governor (Jean Smart) makes a grieving McGar- rett an offer he can’t refuse: head up a secret anti-terrorism/anti- crime unit (soon to be known as Hawaii Five-0) with broad pow- ers of immunity and no one to an- swer to but her. This way he can find his father’s killers with no impediment from an (apparently inept) Honolulu PD, and while he’s at it, he can also hunt down all the drug dealers, slave traders, mob syndicates and other terror- ists. “Get them the hell off my is-
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