NCIS: Los Angeles (TV Series) A Farewell to Arms (2023) User Reviews

Time to retire the show?

[cpotato1010 · 7/10 · 27 February 2023]

CBS and/or the producers seem to think so. Episodes like this are a good indication the time has come.

The whole beginning and end of this show contributed nothing to the case. It is way too late to bring in another ex-wife character.

What made this one even more annoying is that it was a good case, with a good but unexpected ending. Even the technology behind this week's McGuffin was reasonable, as if someone had studied how the parts work.

They had all seven members of the team present, but it seemed all of their parts were shortened, possibly due to the time spent on non-case dialog.

It has been a mostly good 14 years. Hopefully in the next few months they can come up with an ending worthy of the time we have spent with the show.

"A Farewell to Arms"

[allmoviesfan · 7/10 · 3 November 2023]

Less than ten episodes left in the final season of NCIS: Los Angeles, so it's nice to see the entire cast appearing in the second straight episode, and long may that continue.

The episode opens with a Mystery Woman who is very good at kickboxing, and ends up sending a poor guy over the railing at a hotel. Turns out that guy is in AI and off the team goes to recover some stolen technology that - as always - would be used to in nefarious circumstances if it fell into the wrong hands. Stop me if you've heard that somewhere before...

Interestingly considering the show is about to end, we learn more about grumpy Admiral Kilbride when his ex-wife turns up unexpectedly. Strange timing? Yeah. For sure. But still, a nice effort to humanise the irascible Navy flag officer.

A Farewell to Arms

[bobcobb301 · 5/10 · 28 February 2023]

I am fine with a few scenes of Kilbride and his ex-wife going through their struggles, but way too much time was devoted to that meaningless plot device here. Better ways to introduce their son to the mix too.

The cold open was well-done and felt like a flashback to what the show used to give us during its glory days, but then the case got really bad and started to go off the rails. With only a handful of episodes of this show remaining I hope that they get back to basics and fix things and start delivering good episodes again because I would hate to look back and think negatively of the program's legacy.