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This is really quite an episode. The Mastermind also known as the salesman, cheated his buddies out of the other robbery money. The take.

So one one of the bad guys who got double crossed starts to literally terrorize the family.

Now here is what makes this episode unusually interesting. We have an 8 year old girl named Debbie. (Look her up of who she is cuz she didn't do much acting).

But just like kids have that second intuition. She said to the pest control man you're a liar. You don't have a daughter. And the pest control man was really one of the double cross bad guys. I want to tell you that the acting here was so good. It puts almost anything today to shame no kidding. An absolutely fantastic episode all the way. Hats off to the director, cameraman, scriptwriter everybody.

Take Mad Max, Kelly's Heroes, and the American Wild West and you get this movie. Really interesting. Certainly fiction. However it starts off serious.

The engineers and mechanics are talking about their new T-34 they designed. And they want to drive it 1,000 km to Moscow.

Along the way they run into basically Cowboys but they're in Russia. They never submitted the Communist rule and they capture the tank. However some Germans are sneaking by and they also want the tank in the offer to buy it.

And we are quite a big shootout. Think Kelly Heroes. Or Mad Max.

Well to make a long story short, I enjoyed it. It was really different. Yes they make it to Moscow and Stalin is there. For the big T-34 parade.

If you want something off beat from Russia, this is a good one to watch. Also takes place about 1940 before World War II. Or as the Russians call it the Great Patriotic War.

First of all as others have pointed out the filming, the cinematography is beautiful. I mean absolutely beautiful. I think another reviewer said this should be watched on a big screen.

And following up also on another reviewer, it starts in 1843. Now the sets are really nice with the boat the town the cowboys. But and here's the but we got repeating rifles.

Now the South had repeating rifles in the Civil War, it might have turned out differently right?

And actually you got to watch it twice because in this we have some Mexicans who are allies with the Indians, cuz they're selling them guns. And I still quit couldn't quite figure it out. But hey that's me.

Okay there's a spoiler here but I want you guys to make it comparison to TOS. That's 'The Original Series'.

The usual away team game beams down to a planet. Now they got this bird flying around that everybody's looking at. And it's like a Spirit Bird or who knows what. So anyway this bird comes down and attacks Neelix. Any other two members of the away team rushed to the rescue. One was Chikotay.

So here's my nitpicking point. I think in the old days Spock would have got out his phaser and vaporize that bird. Or at least stunned it and take it back for a sample.

Well if anybody wants to chime in on this. But I think they should have vaporized that bird.

Now it makes this movie Very interesting, is it seen from both sides. For example on the Native American side we have a young girl narrating. It's like she's reading her diary. She had seen Custer when the Indians were put into a fort. Before they started killing each other.

The other side of the narration is from Custer's wife. It really makes it interesting. Whoever film is eroded did an excellent job. Not sure it's based on true stories but it's probably one of the best custard stories because you get the feel of what the Cavalry was going through. Not like today where you put up a drone and see what's going on. They would hear shooting. In an area and perhaps they should send a Cavalry over there.

I consider it excellent. Also I bought a DVD, but most of DVDs today are poor quality. This is one that should be released in good quality.

This is basically, similar to Custer's Last Stand. But takes place in South Africa. The British, are ruling South Africa. The Boers are too.

And the Zulus have their land. And they want to keep their land. Very similar to the American Indians. We invaded and pushed them off.

So 40,000 Zulus surround about 2,000 British and well we can guess what happened. I think there was one or two survivors unlike Custer's Last Stand.

I do consider this movie in excellent historical look. The sets the costumes all of that are very nicely done.

I wanted to see what kind of rifles the British had they had a breach loading Martini Henry or something like that so I had to look it up. We had Winchester rifles which were a little bit more advanced. I definitely recommend this movie.

I'll give a point for some of the filming. It wasn't bad filmed in the woods and forests also nice to see some tommy guns in action. But I found myself fast forwarding through some really dumb parts. Too bad time travel and fighting the Germans well that could have made a good story.

So here's all the weird spoilers. Seems that some kind of alien spaceship landed. Well I didn't quite figure out if they went forward in time, but these five soldiers find a spaceship and then they get delusions of grandeur. But it doesn't work out that way.

Instead, they get back to their time but now they're 50 years ahead and guess what. The Nazis got a hold of all the top secret stuff and turn them into some kind of robots. Yeah probably a comic book of this is made somewhere but anyway. Really too bad.

Lots of cussing and swearing. Really kind of dumb. But anyway I did watch it. But it's definitely a one time. Let me conclude with this..

If this even had a better story. It would have been a whole lot better. Two stars because some of the filming was good.

This might be a character study. Based on a novel that I won't read. But I thought this movie was terrible. Not realistic at all. I don't care if the filming was good it was really a bad movie.

And I'm going to go right to the end where it counts. It's Liberation day. Now every single account I've ever read of liberation everybody is happy. Yelling screaming yeehaw. Food is being dropped. Sometimes they're smart off to the Japanese. But not here.

They're liberated and quite frankly nobody seems to care. Sorry bad ending. Everybody would be yelling and screaming and smiling. Well it's a one-time watch for me I thought it was a dud.

Well I'm going to throw some spoilers out here. We got a new guy who back step 7 years instead of 7 days. He said the whole world is going to start fighting unless we kill this holy leader.

The new guy had all the right information. So they do what he says and they kill the holy leader but another group also massacres them at the same time. And Frank's best friend just killed.

The new guy ends up taking over project backstep and something is just not right because he has a mark on his hand. Like a barcode.

From what I gather, it was the mark of the beast is laid out in Revelation. That's the best I could get out of this one. Thought it was kind of strange. Not really going to leave it unrated but I probably won't watch it again. The whole thing about 7 Days is this. Some episodes are really good and some episodes are strange.

. First of all you can call me judgmental John because I am very opinionated and black and white on the issues. So we have this music promoter for Christian bands. He's making good money. So what does he do?

Instead of being wise with his money and living within his means, he buys his large giant half million dollar house. The kids are all doing things that expensive kids do when they have money. You know after school activities and who knows what.

Then it all comes crashing down. You're going to lose the house and everything. And instead of the wife being encouraging. My take what she's looking around and thinking gosh we're going to lose everything.

You see years ago my own family when I was a teenager went through this. And instead of complaining about what you're going to lose, my mother approached it logically. Okay we'll move in with my mother and we'll do this and we'll do that and get a job.

And boy did they have some good arguments. Reminded me of my ex-wife. Arguing over money so you know what I did I just walked out of the theater. And stayed out and surf the net with my phone. Hey all the other Christian friends I went with they loved it.

PS, don't live above your means.

Spoilers, but it's interesting spoilers. There's a lot of tension in the beginning. We have these guys escaping by ambulance. And actually they get stopped to pick up somebody else. And they have to go to the hospital. And now we wonder how they're going to get out of this mess.

That was really very good part you couldn't film it any better. Also I didn't know it was an Australian film until I saw the right hand drive. They were driving mostly big Fords or something like that.

So it is very nicely filled around Sydney Australia.

And it's true we don't find out if the bad guys are innocent or guilty. That's something you will have to decide.

PS, we have snipers on top of a bridge. Do you think that could even be filmed today? Probably not. Which is one of the nice features of this film.

But I will say it starts off good. We're looking at and early 1960s airliner. Now here's an interesting part and here's a spoiler, is the stewardess in on it? Because she wants Admiral Nelson to have food even though he's not hungry. But later when the hijacking goes on, she tries to stop it.

And if you watch it the guy sitting next to Nelson put something in his drink. Actually Nelson does it. However then we get to the Island full of Nazis and Hitler's speech. Which I could do without.

This would probably be never be made today. Chock full of swastikas.

Irwin Allen certainly borrowed quite a bit on this one cuz he had a nice outside set. I'm watching it again right now.

Spoilers! Lots of them.

Let's take the following ideas.

Star Wars, American Civil War, The Bible, The Quran, Tremors the movie, Star Gate, Gladiator movies, And more... And mixed them together and you get this movie.

First I find it interesting to use American slang, in this movie on a distant planet 10,000 years from now. Also, is the temperature in Fahrenheit or Celsius and who cares.

Has a normal sword fighting but hey we got laser guns too but we just won't use them all the time.

And rocket launchers, flame throwers, but no pistols.

Plenty of killings if that's your thing.

So what do we get from the bible? First of all your demons and possession. Along with The Living Water or it could be deadly water depending on your face. Gee where do we get that?

If you run out of original ideas, use the Bible.

Who can't forget the Quran because, all the southerners are praying like Muslims. Talk like them too, look like them too, right out of the desert.

Now we got these sand creatures that live under the sand. Tremors but hey at least a special effects were better. Star Wars Return of the Jedi had a creature that just like to suck people down. Man where has originality gone?

Yeah we got the North and the South just like the Civil War. The Northerners have the water and Southerners have the desert. Kind of like our civil war, Northerners had the industry and Southerners had the cotton.

Just like the Roman Colosseum we got Gladiator action. That is just so original.

Of course we've got Stargate with a symbiote or the baby or whatever you want to call it. Kind of like a baby that thinks ahead of time.

And the lady carrying her baby, it's just like Stargate she changes her voice to an evil one. Or you can get that out of the Bible.

Well I'm waiting for the thumbs down and that's okay. If anybody is interested, Avalon Hill game company made a game based on this story. I highly recommend getting it if you can find it.

PS, thank goodness they have 94 Atomic weapons stored away to even the score.

Why is it that remakes are so bad? Even was good actors and actresses, just can't pull this thing together.

My absolute main pet peeve besides the story, is the extremely poor camera work. Let's just shake the camera in a normal scene like in the bookstore. Hey how about putting it on a rail. Looks like it was filmed with a low budget if you know what I mean. What was the cameraman doing his first job?

Now here's a few plots with and some spoilers. Actually it had a good subplot. There was a second Bionic Woman. That was actually one of the excellent plot twists right there. That could have been really really good. Katie Sackhoff.

Also, The Bionic Woman rescues somebody who's going to jump off a building. So they had some good stories.

But poor camera work, and should have flowed better. But I'm going to watch all eight episodes.

I really enjoy bible stories put on film. As long as they keep to the story. This one is so far off. I'd like to know who wrote it, who filmed it just horrible. I'd like to take him out to the Woodshed for ruining such a good story.

However I'll give it a brownie point for the outfits and swords, how few there were, but hey it was realistic.

Well that's about it for this review. There's not much else to say. Not worth a watch really. Unless you got maybe 8-year-olds or something. Also they did have a couple seconds of special effects that actually weren't bad. For example when he uses a sling to put a rock into Goliath's forehead well we have a little bright light moving it along. Which is cement God was helping kill Goliath.

. As others have said, the uniforms and guns and things like that were very realistic. Which is a nice touch. Probably had reenactors. And very good ones. But I'm going to really nitpick it a couple of parts.

Number one, they shoot an escaping Union soldier. Now right then and there instead of just marching off. They would have gone and picked up the body and buried it cuz that's what they usually did. Ask the reenactors they know all about the history.

Unrealistic moment number two, they get into a situation where they get caught by a single owner. Who's coming to get back his slave. However they knock him down. And this is my big pet peeve. They leave the gun. Now if two Union Soldiers had knocked down a guy the first thing they would have done is pick up that spare rifle.

I will say some of the filming is absolutely beautiful.

Interesting story. Clumsy Direction. I actually really enjoyed this movie. But the plot holes or unbelievability. Starting from the first scene on the boat. She's holding the knife and right away the Coast Guard Cutter comes up. Would have been more realistic if she was on the radio asking for help. Just not a good part when it just shows up at the right time.. Then she goes on trial. Now any murderer would have thrown the knife overboard into 500 ft of water. Funny how that didn't come out at the trial.

Then they're on a ferry. Too bad about that Ford. Anyway she tries to knock the door handle off. Which actually was a pretty good scene but I guarantee you as soon as she hit the first car the crew man would have been alert. As she swimming away nobody spots her. Sure bud that's going to happen but it makes for a good story.

Now she's on The Wanted list. But she just happens to get on the airplane and fly to New Orleans. Like nobody's checking.

Well that's about it I did watch it I'm going to leave it unrated but I got a kick out of it. A better director this could have been eight stars all the way. Tommy Lee Jones did very well. So did Ashley Judd.

This is one of these movies with an interesting plot. Hey don't we all like to land on a foreign strange Island. But the direction, the camera work, is all just fair.

I think with a better director, and better camera work it could have been an easy seven. Kind of an adventure for kids and teenagers and hey me and I'm adult I got a kick out of it also.

And actually the floating diving bell was pretty good. No CGI so we get rubber type dinosaurs and such. A good B movie. But again with better camera work and Direction and maybe a little better storyline this could have easily been a seven or eight.

And the best part was Peggy getting kidnapped in a mysterious way. So here's the spoiler. Mannix shares a cab, with a lady on the run. She just happens to get in the cab. The bad guys are getting another cab and follow her and Mannix.

They have a pretty good car chase. And Mannix cleverly says to the cabbie," I'll give you a 20 if you can lose him".

I want to point out they got some pretty good car chases and they're really bang the old Chrysler's up. I actually got all four wheels off the ground.

Peggy is still kidnapped but trying to talk her way out of it. And I want to say something Gail Fisher is absolutely gorgeous and I wish she was around today. What an absolutely beautiful woman.