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Revolves around a team of military field operatives and civilian scientists who must use untested technology to travel back in time to alter past events in order to change the future and avoid a devastating terrorist attack. Feature length pilot for failed tv series, released as a made for TV movie.
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- Cast:
- Shane McRae , Jennifer Ferrin , Keon Alexander , Keisha Castle-Hughes , Jeff Fahey , Kenneth Welsh , Matthew Bennett
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If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
This could have been a great series and I don't understand why they didn't pursue it. With "Quantum Leap" what kept the viewer so engaged was a different venue every time with familiar characters. I really liked this pilot, and I think it's abandonment was a waste of a really very good idea.This one and QL also brought an education to viewers about culture in different times. So interesting, and such a waste to scrap this one.The concept will be brought back at some point, and it will be a popular money-maker.
Interesting show. A little boring in places. Standard acting and writing but I liked its chutzpah in reworking old time travels tropes into something fresh. I especially liked the small role by the great director, David Cronenberg. His acting was probably the best in the bunch. I'm a big fan of his so getting to see him work in front of the camera instead of behind it was a big plus. The scene between him and the male lead was a well written scene, probably in no small part because of Cronenberg's casting. I doubt he would have done it if that scene was anything less than quality script. Only way this could have been picked up by Syfy is to have renamed it, "Timenado."
Great movie! The end was a bit puzzling at first, but then another review noted that the criminal who would have been killed was spared and became a war hero. The military man may have been him, or someone who knew about him and has figured out the truth about that guardian angel. Anyway, when he dresses for frigid weather and lands in another time, there are caves with animal drawings on them. After having witnessed what happened to New York, the military man despaired of humanity being a force for good on earth and went back to the Caves of Lascaux to eliminate the few humans living at that time. So all goes dark in New York and the rest of the world which never came to be, but was spared the destruction that humans created.
While this was actually what i would call a fairly good timetravel-movie, i can not Believe how they could go through all this trouble doing a Movie and not having the ending all fixed and set.On Another note, and to tell the director of the Movie, you better get your team together again, because that kind of an ending should be criminal.And for my fellow Movie Viewers, this is actually quite well made, there's only a few loose ends that did not get tied up in the end. But that is to be expected when you Watch a Movie like this one. It still gives what i would call a good value and good Entertainment, maybe not a Movie to buy and put on your shelves, but a good Movie for a thursday evening on Netflix or any other online streaming service.The acting could, like the story, be a Little glitchy from time to time, but i did not find anything catastrophic in there. The actors did a fine job most of the time, and did really good at "living in the moment". All in all, i liked this Movie, my reason to give it such a bad rating was the way the thing ended.