It was increasingly predictable(especially in the second half) and takes far too long to get going, two thirds of the first half is set-up exposition, and the excessive padding isn't enough to let go of the feeling that there wasn't enough story to sustain a three-hour running time.
There is very little to be invested in the story either. The dialogue is clunky, overly-talky and dissolves too much into tedious melodrama and overlong exposition, it is often very over-familiar stuff that is made even more painful by awkward line delivery. The characters are badly underwritten ciphers(for a three hour miniseries there was no excuse for this), the sort of stereotypes that we see all the time in movies featuring on the SyFy channel, and they are never more than that. Good characters and writing would have helped, but Ring of Fire manages to not even have those either. When they don't act like they genuinely care or are living their characters' situations, at best they were indifferent, it is very difficult to be properly drawn in. The same cannot be said for the other actors who are all unbearably wooden and emotionless.
He was great on LOST, and while his character is nowhere near as interesting he does do his best here and is quite commanding. If there was a redeeming quality, it was Terry O'Quinn.
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