TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

thomasshops I've read all the other reviews and the one thing that glares out at me seems to have been ignored. In both tales there were at best only 3 major speaking roles. Added to that were a few paragraphs by one or two non essential characters and some nods of a head on an extra or two. In the past few years I did buy just about all the B-5 original series and spin-offs. I've even gone to the internet for the recommended viewing order. I held off buying the "Lost Tales" and "Legend of the Rangers" due to poor user ratings and until the price dropped considerably. I was so disappointed with "Lost Tales" I'm not decided if I should crack the seal on "Legend". It is a darn shame as I did enjoy the original series.

limona_razvan Babylon 5 got a brand new face and ships textures look pretty smooth - this is the good part. The bad part is the script, especially the pathetic way they try to connect religion, or their idea of religion, with space and science fiction. People do not mistake space to heaven. Faith is more than angels and heavens imagery brought to life by medieval priests with no education. I'm very disappointed by Straczynski McDonald image of religion and logical errors. No man is capable to interfere with God work and so the man will do the right/good thing without hesitation. As an atheist the same man will still do the right/good thing because he is a social and compassionate 'animal', capable to reason on his own, especially a man who saw, like another review mention here, Vorlons and Shadows. Plus telepaths, I may ad. The second part is slightly better, yet still religious somehow in his bones. Techomages are not omnipotent ad the way they run in the TV show, scared by Shadows invasion, tell something about their limitations. How one mage can predict the future 30 years before it happens ? Simulation software ? And how the Centauri acquired all that over the edge technology to destroy Earth ? Many unanswered question exchanged for some 'moral dilemmas' that sound old.

MartinHafer This DVD consists of two new episodes of the Babylon 5 series--both set a decade after the final episode of the series. The first stars Tracy Scoggins and is a strange but decent segment about demonic possession. While it's far from great, it was interesting and is worth a look. The second is a much better episode which reunites Sheridan (Bruce Boxleitner) with Galen (Peter Woodward). The theme of this one is the morality of committing a murder in order to save countless lives--sort of like if you could time travel back to kill Hitler as a child. Unlike the first episode, this one was a bit more exciting and offered an interesting moral dilemma.When this straight to DVD release came out, I knew it had some major strikes against it since almost all the original characters from Babylon 5 were not in this two episode release. Richard Biggs and Andreas Katsulas had to be absent (this is alluded to, obtusely, in the film) since they recently died--a very valid excuse indeed and something I couldn't blame the production staff for occurring. But the rest of the cast were no where to be seen and this was a great pity. I assume that years after the last episode it just must have been a logistical nightmare to try. I also read that most of the props and uniforms from the series had been lost and stolen, so making the film was a major chore and logistical nightmare. Despite all these shortcomings, the overall product is surprisingly good and very watchable to fans of the series.

Jack_rabbit This really is a very good example of a dead horse being flogged. I am a big fan of Babylon 5, looking on it as an example of one of the best TV shows ever made, but this really is just an insult to its memory and one of the most blatant attempts to cash in on a franchise. First off, (spoiler alert, sort of) whilst its touching that they comment on the death of Andreus Katsulas, it ruins the continuity of the universe to have G Kar dead and Londo alive, being that they both supposedly kill each other. It seems odd to go for two episodes rather than a movie type format, but both episodes are sub par and predictable (the second story being worse than some of the worst episodes of series 1). However some of the acting, particularly from the Centauri Prince, saves this by the numbers story from utter failure. Tracey Scoggings, however, reprising her role as the eminently discardable Lochley is even more woeful in this than she was in series 5, but then I guess she isn't getting many offers for work nowadays. The first story is, again, saved to some extent by some fantastic acting from the possessed guy (look, I cant be bothered to look up his name!) but again it kind of contradicts B5 mythology, that of the Vorlons, actually being the human "god" I could go on, but really, I have already put more effort into this "review" than was put into that production. Avoid.