Battlestar Galactica: The Plan [Blu-ray]
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Actor: Edward James OlmosBrand: Universal Studios
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 112 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2009-10-27
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Universal Studios
Blu-ray Reviews of Battlestar Galactica: The Plan [Blu-ray]
Blu-ray Review: A Flawed Gem For Completists Only
Summary: 4 Stars
Battlestar Galactica's desperate crew members were always great recyclers. Short on replacement parts, they kept their aging spaceships humming by reusing whatever bits and pieces of technology they had lying around. That recycling continues in 'Battlestar Galactica: The Plan'.
Even after all this time, (having purchased this original release last year), I'm still torn over this final Battlestar movie. It's good, but it's not great - it's fun, but it's far from perfect - it's interesting, but at times feels incomplete or leaves you feeling somewhat frustrated in wanting that little bit more exposition or other issues addressed.
But there are some real gems to be found and savoured here if you're prepared to look for them: like the storyline between Cavill and The Boy, which I found particularly rewarding and moving (wonderfully played as ever, by Dean Stockwell), the internal struggle that the Cylon model Simon (Rick Worthy) undergoes, and the tenderness towards his human wife that he retains, is powerful, and sheds new light on this previously mysterious model. There are also wonderful moments with Ellen, Shelley Godfrey and more. There IS much to be savoured here, but maybe like most spreads, it's spread a little too thinly at times and leaves you wanting more.
The real price of admission, however, is two-fold: Firstly, for Dean Stockwell's performance as Brother Cavill. I've always felt he was the most conflicted and complex of all the 'original' models and this film serves as his star turn. He is everywhere -- at once a priest on the Galactica, a resistance warrior on New Caprica, scheming on the baseship. It's equally fun watching him boiling with frustration that The Plan isn't coming to fruition, snapping at his fellow Cylons, and every dry, sardonic aside in-between. The second being the masterstroke that is the Cylons devastating attack on Caprica which is truly quite something to behold, coupled with an amazing score from bear McReary that really comes into its own during this long scene.
Edward James Olmos directs this movie as only someone so intimately familiar with the material can. Reshot scenes on Caprica and supplements to Galactica footage feel seamlessly in place, as though rewatching major plot points unfold from the series again in real time - just from the perspective of others - which of course, is the entire point.
Whether you enjoyed it or not, to dimiss the hard work and effort that actually DID go into bringing this all together into a cohesive whole is just plain insulting and dismissive to those involved. It couldn't have been easy to weave in the major Cylon moments of the series (the attack, the human resistance, Boomer carrying out her orders, etc.) without coming off as disjointed, gimmicky or bloated, but for the most part it is done beautifully. (If anyone is under any illusion that this was some mere hack job, they really need to watch the extras - particularly how the original version of the scene between Ellen and Cavill was to play out, as this only goes to prove how EJO's attention to detail and pacing paid off here in droves - the way it was re-edited into the attack scenes works amazingly well and really ups the ante and the tension).
So far, so good. So...what didn't I like? Well, for one - I was so disapointed that there was no real further exposition to the saga of The Olympic Carrier (personally, I've always been convinced that the voice that is heard over the Talk Wireless during its reappearance is the Simon model Cylon). I thought it would have been really interesting to have found out what really did happen on that ship when it vanished. Were those "thousand some-odd souls" killed? Experimented upon? Airlocked? ...Did Apollo really end up killing a ship full of innocents, or were there no passengers left on it as we suspected? For me, I felt like this was such a shame this opportunity was missed to truly tie that up once and for all.
That's my one major gripe. The other is not so much a gripe, more a personal opinion down to taste. The series finale 'Daybreak' served as a wonderful coda for the show, but 'The Plan' somehow seems to dilute and take away from that experience. Yes, I too was clamouring for more. But somehow, for all it's good intentions, 'The Plan' just sadly doesn't quite seem to hit the mark it was aiming for. This is not to say it's bad - it's most certainly not, but after watching it, I felt like I had somehow cheapened my beginning middle and end with Battlestar.
Those who have not had the pleasure of watching the show and are yet to take the journey, be strongly advised - this will blow pretty much everything for you if you make the mistake of thinking you should watch this first.
To summise: maybe one for completists only.
Description of Battlestar Galactica: The Plan [Blu-ray]
The Cylons began as humanity's robot servants. They rebelled and evolved and now they look like us. Their plan is simple: destroy the race that enslaved them. But when their devastating attack leaves human survivors, the Cylons have to improvise. Battlestar Galactica: The Plan tells the story of two powerful Cylon leaders, working separately, and their determination to finish the task.Bestsellers in DVD
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