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Generally favorable reviews- based on 23 Ratings
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Positive: 14 out of 23
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Mixed: 4 out of 23
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Negative: 5 out of 23
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MotiveYour Score0 out of 10User ScoreGenerally favorable reviews- based on 23 Ratings
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May 21, 2013Boring. The only other cops-and-robbers series that I can recall as having used this device of identifying the culprit from the git go was Columbo, and Motive is no Columbo. Once the audience knows who done it, the writers must come up with a lot more reasons to keep watching such a show than the trite banter that characterized the opening episode.
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Feb 13, 2017not much twist, it get less interesting because the killer exposed in the beginning of the movie. there is not much up and down in the movie so after watching 3 seasons it gets pretty boring
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Motive flounders chiefly, however, because it expends lasting suspense by providing the audience with all the hard facts they need up front, subsequently granting them an invitation to leave the party early.
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Its nonlinear, whydunit approach makes the show stand out. The fractured loop-de-loop narrative creates not just surprise but suspense.
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The characters don't feel any richer here than they do on CBS' various cop shows, and the series doesn't even commit to how much it wants to keep you guessing about why the crime occurred.