Ten years after his retirement from the government, Colonel Steve Austin must again team up with Jaime Sommers to stop a terrorist group. Complicating matters for Austin are his estranged son Michael, who struggles for his father's acceptance as he graduates from flight school, and Jaime, who must cope with her and Steve's past. When Michael is severely injured in a crash, Steve must make the same decision about fitting him with bionics that he had to make with Jaime years ago after her accident. Written by

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Weasel-25
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Lee Majors as Colonel Austin has always been one of my favorite actors / characters!!! If you're a big fan like me, you'll be sure to enjoy this special. Ever since the Original Series went off the air, The three TV specials that aired, this being one of the three, really don't sum up the awe and power that the character of Steve Austin has. However, it was good to see Colonel Austin and his team back in Action, great action sequences and a captivating story-line, reminded me of the great 80s shows like Knight Rider, The A-Team, and countless others.

Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 5

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ChairBoy from Santa Monica
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Possibly the worst scored of all the Bionic Woman and Six Million Dollar Man shows and movies. The music is distracting, inappropriately timed, and bad.

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Alonzo Golden (Anewactor@aol.com) from Brooklyn, New York
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I grew up watching The Six Million Dollar Man & thoroughly enjoyed every episode of the series, including special appearances Lee Majors made on other shows. Like many youngsters of the era, I spent much of my time in front of the magic box, watching and "re-watching" my favorite shows; But always, SMDM was by far my favorite of them all! For me as a kid, it was more than simply watching a guy (& later a girl) perform superhuman feats of speed and strength. Here were folks who, with all their incredible powers, still remained human, being careful to use them only when totally necessary. To me at the time, that was nearly to the point of being a 'mentor' in a sense, being responsible in using such power. (I even remember joining the SMDM fan club!! LOL!!) In the "return" film, it was great to see Steve again, running in slow motion, leaping, lifting heavy things, etc. (In fact, in one of the scenes, it seems to me that he just may have increased in strength a bit, flipping a car over...with it rolling over at least several times!!.) In any case, it was fantastic to see Lee Majors & Lindsey Wagner back at it again, doing all the bionic stuff. The film was cool. Great nostalgiac stuff here to watch. Funny thing is, to me, it would have made more sense to have Lee Majors,Jr. to portray Steve Austin's son! Now that would'a been great! All in all, a very entertaining film to watch; Particularly to a 'forever' SMDM fan! Long live the Six Million Dollar Man & the Bionic woman!

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Brian T. Whitlock (GOWBTW) from WILMINGTON, NC
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Fans of both "The Six Million Dollar Man" and "The Bionic Woman", can rest assure this dream has come true. I've enjoyed both series, and having them back together would be a dream come true. I first heard about on "Entertainment Tonight" ahead of times. I was really jacked up to wait. When I saw the preview, I was ecstatic! With the updated scenes for the movie was fascinating and just watching it made it more fun. It was funny when Jamie(Lindsay Wagner) threw Steve(Lee Majors) out the window. But the excitement factor was better when Steve landed on the car giving Jamie a chance to escape, while Steve flipped the car, and the car took off after being flipped. Really peculiar! Now his son is a bionic, only he has a lethal laser in his right eye! Talk about out of sight. This reunion movie is out of sight, reliving the old show is great. Action, scifi shows do indeed make better reunion progresses than sitcoms ever will. Maybe... Now I'm going to get some metal pipes and NANANANANANANANANA!!!!!!!!!!!! BIONIC-SIZE THEM! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rating 5 stars!

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tmitch-1 from United States
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Did you ever notice that nearly EVERYONE who becomes buddies with Steve Austin ends up having the same sort of devestating triple-amputee accident that nearly finished him off in the first place? Jaime Sommers - Pro tennis player and extremely hot babe. Becomes enganged to Steve Austin... Splatto!! - loses three limbs and an ear in a sky-diving accident.

Michael Austin - Test pilot, estranged son of Steve Austin. Re-united and reconciled with his estranged dad, Steve Austin... Whammo!! - loses three limbs and an eye in a crash nearly identical to Dad's mishap.

Maximillion - Jaime's dog. Yes, that's right - even DOGS who get mixed up with Steve or Jaime end up on the operating room/chop shop table.

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Cpt_Berns from Belgium
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Was I glad to see some more of Steve and Jaime. I just loved the 1970's series. However I missed two things in all three reunion movies. First of all, I missed the 1970's look (furniture, clothes, cars, etc.) since I believe the 1970's was the ONLY decade that had style and taste (I hated the 1980's). But most importantly, where were the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman theme music? It was a mistake not to include the themes. In fact, almost all remakes/reunion movies used the theme of the original shows. Just look at Mission Impossible, The Saint, The Wild Wild West, The Avengers, SWAT, etc. They all used the themes of the shows those movies were based upon. It wouldn't be James Bond without the James Bond theme. Yet sadly in none of the SMDM-BW reunion movies the theme from either show was present.

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J.J. Blade from United States
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I think I'll start off by saying that I don't understand how the 1970s series was much better in every aspect. The music, the editing, the special-effects, the acting, the connection between the characters, the plots & the locations etc.

This movie was very hard to watch. I'm extremely surprised that the stars of the Bionic franchise even agreed to this script. It was as if the characters were completely different people, and as if they had never had any connection between them or history in the first place. Very sad to see.

The writing, editing, and score was so bad, it even made Lindsay Wagner's performance pale- and I find her to be one of the most talented actresses to date.

To sum it up: the over-use of guns and explosions did not compensate for the lack of integrity of the movie.

#Next

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Andrew (andyofne) from United States
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I was a big fan as a kid growing up the 70s so I know I would have watched this when it aired on TV. But I missed out on this... very bad production... I was living overseas in the Navy watching old episodes of Air Wolf and Knight Rider, I suppose. I'm kinda glad I missed out on this.

Something silly I picked up on... the villains drive one of those monstrous station wagons (that were finally fading in popularity not long after 1987) and after Steve Austin rolls the first one (and Jamie kicked out the passenger door) the bad guys go out and get the exact model/color car as a replacement. Either that or they had it repaired mighty fast.

Sometimes it's best to put a show to bed and leave it alone. This was one of those times.

I do agree with the person who wrote about the music. What were they thinking?

Oh, and, Brian Cranston was in this show. I didn't even recognize him.

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Jim Hannaford (sp27343) from Alexandria, VA
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It funny about the original run of the SMDM, as it simply disappeared with a lot of loose ends. This movie tries to tie them together, but leaves the door open for future adventures. Its ten years later; Steve and Jamie are both retired from the OSI (even though they're both only in their mid 40's (I'd kind of like that option!)) and have moved to quieter surroundings. Steve's estranged son is horrifically injured in jet crash; a villian from the past shows up (Martin Landau in a throw away role); and Jamie & Steve bump into each other at a restaurant. In all it sounds kind of cheesey, BUT in this case it works. This movie was written, directed, and most of all acted with a great deal of heart. You can actually relate to Steve and Jamie's uneasiness about seeing each other, reconciling feelings, and working for Oscar Goldman again. Anyway; Steve's son gets rebuilt (the $7 Million Dollar Man?) by Oscar and Rudy, and Steve and Jamie catch up to the bad guy (Landau) and save the world. As I mentioned before, this movie has a great deal of heart and depth to it, and the producers should have stopped there. The two further sequel movies (Bionic Showdown, and Bionic Ever After) were pretty lame.

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Anders Bylund from Jacksonville, FL
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My friends and I were on the hunt for a bad action B-movie for some popcorn fun, and Laser Force (that's the title in Sweden... yeah, those are English words. Your point?) seemed to fit the bill. Boy, were we wrong. The plot moves at the pace of frozen molasses, so do the action sequences, and the acting is consistently wooden. I never saw any lasers, nor any kind of force, and certainly no laser force... then again, the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman appeared often enough. I wish they hadn't. Unless you're into soft, slow-motion shots of people running across summer meadows (fully clothed, sorry!), skip this one.

At the end of the movie the character Jim Castillian says to Steve Austin about wishing he had a father just like him. This is actually an inside joke as Jim Castillian is played by Lee Majors II, Lee Majors' real life son.
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The only bionic person from the series who did not make it for the return (aside from the 'Bionic Boy') was Max the bionic dog. Dr. Rudy Wells does make a mention of him though when he is visited by Steve Austin in his OSI laboratory. OSI secretary Peggy Callahan, played by Jennifer Darling also didn't make a return appearance.
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Technically there were two other bionic people besides Steve and Jaime. Barney Hiller, who was in "The Seven Million Dollar Man", was a race car driver who suffered an accident and had both legs and both arms replaced by cybernetic attachments. And Andy Sheffield ("The Bionic Boy") also had bionic implants.
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Steve's stated reason for his not assisting Chris Williams on his final mission and thus not being there to possibly save Chris from death was merely that Steve had retired from the OSI, and so he didn't want to participate in any more missions. Although it is not brought out in the story, however, an obvious implication is that another reason that Steve would not have wanted to accompany Chris Williams is that he would have felt awkward working alongside someone who was Jaime's new heartthrob.
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Only about five children are visible standing by the van as the blind lady approaches it, yet we hear a sizable "chorus" of eager happy children's voices as they see the lady approach.
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When Jaime is heard to say, "Wait here, Rudy,", her mouth does not move, and the fidelity/audio-frequency curve of the spoken words is different (thinner and crisper sound) than the regular movie sound. Obviously a dubbed-in remark.
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A "thirty second mile" would be 120 miles per hour, which is faster than Jaime ever was able to run.
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Jaime and Steve say that they each are the only people in the world who could understand what a bionic person goes through, but Barney Hiller ("The Seven Million Dollar Man") was also bionic at one time, just as Jaime and Steve were, so he would know about their feelings and tribulations, also. And Andy Sheffield ("The Bionic Boy") also had bionic implants.
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When Steve jumps off of the building to save Jaime, he turns in mid-air to land on his side or back. When he lands on the car he is face down on all fours.
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When Rudy shows Steve the new bionic laser eye it is brown. After it has been inserted into Michael's head we see it has become the same color blue as Michael's other eye.
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Michael is shown ejecting, yet the plane's canopy is still attached to the plane as it strikes the ground and explodes.
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When one of the rescuers clicks the empty chamber on his automatic pistol, the slide is not retracted, the way it would have been if the gun had run out of ammo.
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When Steve Austin grabs a machine rifle in the final climactic battle, he bends the end of the gun using his super strength so the user can't fire it. We can see though that just before he bends the barrel of the gun, it is slightly bent forward already. The gun wouldn't have been able to fire beforehand anyway if this was the case.
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Obviously empty car that Steve flips over after Jaime escapes from it.
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The overturned car lurches and flips over farther on its own after Steve lets go of it, and is suspended in midair during the operation; obviously the car is on a rotating hydraulic ram that's attached to its front end and is turning the car.
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bionics|tv series reunion|superhuman|suppressed memory|airplane accident|sequel|based on novel|

AKAs Titles:
Spain - El regreso del hombre nuclear y la mujer biónica
Finland - Laser Force
France - Mission bionique
Sweden (alternative title) - Laser Force
West Germany - Die Rückkehr der Roboter

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Certifications:
Iceland:12 / USA:Not Rated / West Germany:16