You can view this film on YouTube and this is what I would recommend. The story is solid and it's always fun to see Quantum Leap back in any form, but the acting is substandard on all levels. This fan base film has some decent special effects and the heart and soul of Quantum Leap is there, but that's about it. In these hard times, save the money and watch the four parts on YouTube. If you are expecting the old series, you will be greatly disappointed. The only character that comes from the old series is Deborah Pratt who was married to the creator at the time the series was introduced. Too bad she couldn't talk him into returning for another run.
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Don't get too excited; It's a cheesy fan video.
dlermajr200324 April 2009
Warning: Spoilers
The idea that there would be a new Quantum Leap movie after nearly 20 years intrigued me. I was trying to find out where and when this movie would be shown. I figured maybe Sci-Fi would have it. I did more searching and eventually discovered that it is a generic video made by various fans of the show. I actually watched part of it on Youtube. Although I admire the effects they used for certain scenes, I was extremely disappointed in what I saw. The acting was horrible, and it was just a bad idea all around.
If I were you, I wouldn't waste my time looking up this movie. It was horrible.
If I were you, I wouldn't waste my time looking up this movie. It was horrible.
Quantum Suck.
mafiahitman19 May 2009
Warning: Spoilers
Horrible. Horrible. Horrible.
This movie is terrible on all levels. I will explain how.
Technically, it was a terrible movie. The editing is bad. Stock footage is used poorly. Lighting is very, very dark. Camera-work is alright, though.
The writing is horrible. The returning character (Sam) acts in a manner that doesn't correlate with anything that he learned in the original series. There are numerous bad jokes. Al refers to a British officer as "Austin Powers" for no other reason than he is British.
Believe it or not, there is even a bash on Windows. Al vanishes because his holographic projection gets a blue screen of death. This is pathetic writing.
The writing obviously suffers from the writer being a Princess Diana fan. There are at least a dozen times where Sam and Al say "Well, it doesn't seem like you're here to stop Diana from dying, but damn it, you should anyway." The supporting characters are incredibly one-dimensional. They are in positions that are very, very convenient to get the script moving nowhere.
And finally, the acting is horrible. There was obviously no auditioning or rehearsal. Literally everyone in the movie is a bad actor.
Oh yeah. Although in the beginning the Quantum Leap project is basically shut down, it is reinstated by direct orders of the President of the United States.... so that Dr. Beckett can save Princess Diana.
Overall, this movie fails on every level other than physical camera handling, occasional set dressing, and the built-in benefit of ripping off a really good, really well-written television show.
Christopher Allen, you owe everything in this movie to Nathaniel Savidge, who was your credited Camera Operator. You yourself are a terrible filmmaker on every level. You are even worse a writer.
People like you are the only hope for a complete dictatorship, because people like you cause people to want to criminally punish terrible filmmakers.
Please never brag that you've made this movie. You should pay everyone who worked on it every day and apologize to them for involving them in such trash.
I am not exaggerating, and I am not being too hard on the director. This movie was literally terrible.
I hope that one day, Sam Beckett can leap into a friend of mine to prevent me from losing almost an hour of my life to this terrible, terrible movie.
Actually, that single paragraph was a better concept than this entire movie.
This movie is terrible on all levels. I will explain how.
Technically, it was a terrible movie. The editing is bad. Stock footage is used poorly. Lighting is very, very dark. Camera-work is alright, though.
The writing is horrible. The returning character (Sam) acts in a manner that doesn't correlate with anything that he learned in the original series. There are numerous bad jokes. Al refers to a British officer as "Austin Powers" for no other reason than he is British.
Believe it or not, there is even a bash on Windows. Al vanishes because his holographic projection gets a blue screen of death. This is pathetic writing.
The writing obviously suffers from the writer being a Princess Diana fan. There are at least a dozen times where Sam and Al say "Well, it doesn't seem like you're here to stop Diana from dying, but damn it, you should anyway." The supporting characters are incredibly one-dimensional. They are in positions that are very, very convenient to get the script moving nowhere.
And finally, the acting is horrible. There was obviously no auditioning or rehearsal. Literally everyone in the movie is a bad actor.
Oh yeah. Although in the beginning the Quantum Leap project is basically shut down, it is reinstated by direct orders of the President of the United States.... so that Dr. Beckett can save Princess Diana.
Overall, this movie fails on every level other than physical camera handling, occasional set dressing, and the built-in benefit of ripping off a really good, really well-written television show.
Christopher Allen, you owe everything in this movie to Nathaniel Savidge, who was your credited Camera Operator. You yourself are a terrible filmmaker on every level. You are even worse a writer.
People like you are the only hope for a complete dictatorship, because people like you cause people to want to criminally punish terrible filmmakers.
Please never brag that you've made this movie. You should pay everyone who worked on it every day and apologize to them for involving them in such trash.
I am not exaggerating, and I am not being too hard on the director. This movie was literally terrible.
I hope that one day, Sam Beckett can leap into a friend of mine to prevent me from losing almost an hour of my life to this terrible, terrible movie.
Actually, that single paragraph was a better concept than this entire movie.
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