A billionaire softwaregenius named Harold Finch creates a Machine for the government that is designed to detect acts of terror before they can happen by monitoring the entire world by monitoring every cellphone email and surveillance camera. Finch discovered that the machine sees everything potential terrorist acts and violent crimes that involve ordinary people. When the government considered violent crimes between normal people irrelevant Finch built a back door into the system that gives him the social security number of a person involved in a future violent crime so he could act. Partnered with John Reese an exCIA agent the two work in secret to prevent violent crimes before they can happen. Eventually their activities lead to being hunted by the New York Police Department CIA Agents in pursuit of Reese who was listed as dead a computer hacker named Root who wants access to the Machine and government officials who want to keep all knowledge of the Machine a complete ...
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"Person of Interest" is the brainchild of Jonathan Nolan the brother of director Chirstopher Nolan. Jonathan wrote the screenplays for Christopher's movies "Memento" ⊺tman Begins" "The Prestinge" "The Dark Knight" as well as the upcoming "The Dark Knight Rises" and "Man of Steel" which Christopher is producing. But back to "Person of Interest". John Reese (Jim Cavezil. OK I did NOT spell that right. It's the guy that played Jesus in "Passion of the Christ" is a former government agent who experienced a tragic event in his past and wants to conceal it from everyone. He is essentially homeless but possesses some pretty impressive fighting skills. It's these fighting skills that make him noticed by two people the first is an NYPD agent Carter (Taraji P. Henson) who doens't really know who Reese is and Reese doens't want to reveal anything to her. The other person is Finch (Michael Emmerson) a mysterious millionaire who was hired by the government after 911 to create a Big Brother like machine that would help save innocent people from being killed. But eventually the Machine began to take on a mind of it's own and Finch took matters into his own hands helping these people on his own without the help of the government. It's this that leads him to Reese. He sees in Reese someone like him a person who can't get over past tragedies and it's those tragedies that are holding him back from being successful. Finch and Reese become somewhat of business partners with Finch using Reese to find ways to save innocent people. But sometimes these people are not as innocent as they seem.