Movie Reviews for Bionic Woman - Volume One

Bionic Woman - Volume One

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Movie Reviews of Bionic Woman - Volume One

Movie Review: Recycle This One
Summary: 2 Stars

This show was like a love child between the Scarecrow and the Tin Man from "Wizard of Oz": lacking both a heart and a brain. The first ten minutes--perhaps the most critical--seemed forced and rushed, and most of the plot developments afterwards I could see coming a mile away. The only redeeming quality of this show was Katee Sackhoff (AKA Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica - Season One), but she isn't enough to save this one.

Movie Review: What a lost opportunity
Summary: 3 Stars

I new saw any of the hype that led up to the broadcast of the new "Bionic Woman" so I didn't have a lot of expectations sitting down to watch the DVD. I Had the opposite actually given the negative press the show received. The critics weren't wrong.

It's not that "Bionic Woman" is bad TV. It's just so-so and it's flaws are so obvious that one has to wonder about the arrogance of the producers for not creating a better show.

"Bionic Woman" doesn't know what it wants to be and it squanders any sense of tension or drama.

There are times it's a drama and then there are these awkward moments when it slips into humor. Sometimes it works, most of the time it doesn't. When Jamie's boss comments that he wants a sound proofed office because Jamie has listened in on a private conversation it brings on a chuckle because it's real and true. When Jamie, like a bratty teenager, is complaining about her privacy and her boss acts like a father it's just not funny, it's downright annoying. Maybe the producers were trying to attract the female teen market with this approach, but it really helps to kill the show.

The plot device of Sarah Corvus helps destroy the tension and drama. The unknown is always scarier and more ominous than the known. In the 3rd or 4th episode Corvus is wheeled down a hallway strapped to a hand cart and passes Jamie Summers. Right then I knew it was over for me. Corvus was being introduced as a threat as required by the plot, nothing more.

"Bionic Woman" would have worked if it had taken itself a bit more seriously and created a grittier environment. It still could have had girl-power and even moments of sisterhood (Summer's relationship with her younger sister plays big in the show). It just wouldn't have been overwhelmed by these aspects.

And they just should have left the humor alone. This is not "Boston Legal." When Danny Crane speaks it's funny. When Jamie Summers whines it's not. Nor should she be funny. That's not what makes a bionic woman interesting. Given all of the issues they could have tackled - gender roles, sexism, medical ethics, terrorism, or just Summers adapting to such a freakish outcome in her life - it's astonishing that they didn't make a better show.

Movie Review: Not that bad
Summary: 3 Stars

This re-make of the classic series Bionic Woman is not as wretched as some would like to say. Overall it suffers from a slightly dull athmosphere, and it is true that the writing could have been tighter but the acting is rather good and the effects are first-rate even if they are somewhat in the background. So the story is quite simple, underachieving bartender Jamie Summers is almost killed during an accident and re-built by her experimental-surgeon boyfriend. Afterwards it is quite straightforward. But as I wrote it is not as bad as some other reviewers put it.

Movie Review: an entertaining remake
Summary: 3 Stars

Following a car accident, Will Anthros (Bowers) thanks to his surgeon capabilities and technological knowledge, does not lose his girlfriend, Jaime Sommers: instead, she wakes up to find herself with bionics in her body: her right ear, right eye, right arm, and both legs. Will she help the good guys with her fifty million dollars technology?

This is quite obviously a remake of the tv series "Bionic Woman" with Lindsay Wagner, and is in no way any better or worse than the original tv series.

The actors' performances isn't top notch quality. Michelle Ryan is not a bad actress, Lucy Bale's acting got on my nerves (she plays the 15-year-old sister who just doesn't look 15 at all), and Miguel Ferrer is basically the only reason I was interested in watching the show: he is quite good here. As was Chris Bowers, who unfortunately only had a short role that lasted 2 episodes.

It's too bad the series is an Alias wannabe. The team has Sommers and her partners travel from 1 country to the next, and it just feels like a lower quality than Alias.

Still, it's an enjoyable, entertaining series with a predictable ending for each episode. No thrills or surprises.