The attack on the Colonies was great and the movie started with locations we have never seen and characters we didn't know that much about. Helen in a bar, Tory in a car, Anders in pyramid camp. But then the movie started relying on footage from the miniseries and first season and The Plan went downhill. They set up all these things and then they just forget all about them.
The interesting thing about this movie is that they really didn't show us ANYTHING groundbreaking, revealing or surprising. I expect to see the story of the Olympic Carrier, more of Helen on the hospital ship, and definitely more of Tory! They show her surviving a nuke blast and that's about it. How did she get on Galactica? Why wasn't Cavill with her like he was with the rest of the Final Five? Hell, even that promised revelation of how Shelley Godfree (spelling?) got off the ship was total BS. So she went out of the air lock. Yawn. Really didn't see that coming... And they try to explain her disappearance by making up yet another Six model, the which I call Slut Six. But what's her story then? How did she get on and off Galactica? What happened to her? This was supposed to be about the Cylons yet I don't know anything about the Cylons! My biggest problem with this movie was all the reused footage. I mean, I get why they used some of it. To establish where and when in the story we are. To show us which moments were influenced by what. But half the movie? They recycle half the movie?! I thought Edward James Olmos would do a better job directing. They could have at least shown us more about the Resistance and Anders. How did their group become so big, for example? And I remember when Anders showed up on the show he told Kara they liberated a school and used it as their HQ. Well show us that action for frak's sake! Before Kara left them Sam told her they would look for more farms and destroy them. Well show us that! Why are you showing me scenes from The Farm that I already watched twice before? Instead of a movie that was supposed to fill in the gaps and give us a different viewpoint we get two or three Cavill copies stepping in and out of old reused scenes from the show. When they said it would be the war from their side, I expected more stuff inside their world. Where were the baseships, heavy raiders, the Colony, resurrection ships and stuff like that? Why didn't they show us more of the world we've seen in the episode Downloaded? THAT was a story from the Cylon POV. Not this.
Basically, there were only two things I liked. The beginning and the very end. I loved the twist where Cavill stabbed the child. One would expect that a child would turn him over to being more human, not Kara and Sam hugging in the forest. So that was sort of fun. And the shots of the two of them floating through the fleet was awesome.
The interesting thing about this movie is that they really didn't show us ANYTHING groundbreaking, revealing or surprising. I expect to see the story of the Olympic Carrier, more of Helen on the hospital ship, and definitely more of Tory! They show her surviving a nuke blast and that's about it. How did she get on Galactica? Why wasn't Cavill with her like he was with the rest of the Final Five? Hell, even that promised revelation of how Shelley Godfree (spelling?) got off the ship was total BS. So she went out of the air lock. Yawn. Really didn't see that coming... And they try to explain her disappearance by making up yet another Six model, the which I call Slut Six. But what's her story then? How did she get on and off Galactica? What happened to her? This was supposed to be about the Cylons yet I don't know anything about the Cylons! My biggest problem with this movie was all the reused footage. I mean, I get why they used some of it. To establish where and when in the story we are. To show us which moments were influenced by what. But half the movie? They recycle half the movie?! I thought Edward James Olmos would do a better job directing. They could have at least shown us more about the Resistance and Anders. How did their group become so big, for example? And I remember when Anders showed up on the show he told Kara they liberated a school and used it as their HQ. Well show us that action for frak's sake! Before Kara left them Sam told her they would look for more farms and destroy them. Well show us that! Why are you showing me scenes from The Farm that I already watched twice before? Instead of a movie that was supposed to fill in the gaps and give us a different viewpoint we get two or three Cavill copies stepping in and out of old reused scenes from the show. When they said it would be the war from their side, I expected more stuff inside their world. Where were the baseships, heavy raiders, the Colony, resurrection ships and stuff like that? Why didn't they show us more of the world we've seen in the episode Downloaded? THAT was a story from the Cylon POV. Not this.
Basically, there were only two things I liked. The beginning and the very end. I loved the twist where Cavill stabbed the child. One would expect that a child would turn him over to being more human, not Kara and Sam hugging in the forest. So that was sort of fun. And the shots of the two of them floating through the fleet was awesome.