Jack Bauer has become a different kind of hero — salon.com

It is sort of brilliant that “24: Live Another Day” takes place in the UK, and not just because the grim, gray streets of Europe have become the go-to destination for craggy old action heroes with very specific skill sets (“Taken 2,” “A Good Day to Die Hard”). There’s a scene in “Live Another Day” in which Chloe O’Brian (Mary Lynn Rajskub) is questioned about her recent escape from a maximum-security CIA blacksite in London. When she reveals that a former colleague broke her out, her interrogator believes that to be impossible. Chloe responds, “Not for him.” And, of course, it is not. If Doctor Who is the UK’s Superman, than Jack Bauer is our Doctor Who: immeasurably talented, self-righteous, unorthodox, and utterly implacable.

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