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ACTOR
Edward James OlmosMary McDonnellKatee SackhoffJamie Bamber
DIRECTOR
Félix Enríquez Alcalá
SYNOPSICS
Battlestar Galactica: Razor (2007) is a English movie. Félix Enríquez Alcalá has directed this movie. Edward James Olmos,Mary McDonnell,Katee Sackhoff,Jamie Bamber are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2007. Battlestar Galactica: Razor (2007) is considered one of the best Action,Drama,Sci-Fi,Thriller movie in India and around the world.
A two-hour Battlestar Galactica special that tells the story of the Battlestar Pegasus several months prior to it finding the Galactica.
Same Actors
Same Director
Battlestar Galactica: Razor (2007) Reviews
Under-rated, unappreciated
The trick with these sorts of reviews is perspective. Even today (2014) the rebooted BSG series is considered one of the best produced and written series of all time, addictive, as much a game changer for TV as Buffy or Breaking Bad. Once you understand that, the question you need to ask yourself is, what purpose do these feature length "fillers" serve? Many of the other reviewers here were expecting greatness, something new, something important, and, having failed to find it, got a little peckish. I believe that these features are simply a chance for the producers to unwind, to show off, to experiment. Almost like having a fast car that you can't drive fast because you're in the city. Take her out on the hiway and see what she can do... In that context, this is a solid little entertainer. Great use of flashbacks (compared for example to the over-use in series like ARROW). Great acting. I believe BSG showed us many actors who were capable of greatness if given a chance, yet, post-BSG, we never really saw much of them again. The scenes between Michelle Forbes and Stephanie Jacobsen are electric. Both deliver far more on-screen wattage than their resumes would suggest. And Jacobsen's exotic looks (she was born in China) once again showcases the ability of the casting director to pick the right actor for the correct role.
What a disappointment
I watched the televised version and felt like there was a lot missing, like focus and a storyline. This show was predictable right to the lame ending. I had hopes of seeing the war from the point of view of the Pegasus crew instead they spent the whole time focused on the character of Kendra Shaw and her role with Lee Adama as her commander and only small flashbacks to her serving under Admiral Cain and even then gave very little of her story. They hint that she used her mother as clout to get her first position but we never found out whom her mother was. Most of the story lines we see in this version are very similar to what we have already seen on Galactica. The shooting of the civilians for example was done in season 1 of Galactica when the troupes shot several people on one of the ships while trying to transfer supplies. The storys sub plot of the old style Cylon's looked like it was almost an after thought with little to do with anything other then to point the audience suspicion to Staruck and her newly discovered path to earth. There was very little new in this special and most of it was seen in seasons 2 and 3, I may rent the DVD version to see if the story has any more depth but as of seeing the Sci-Fi channel version I need to give this a thumbs down. Here is an update, I just saw the extended version. Not any better
Choppy, Contrived, Disappointing
As someone who's been completely immersed in the new BSG, it comes as a great disappointment to say that RAZOR was almost a total letdown. Watching this show spiral into self-indulgence (Ron, enough with the messiah and "chosen one" crap already. We had to put up with it on DS9 and it's now being rammed down our throats on BSG) in its third season has been a real bummer. In the first two seasons, BSG was one of THE MOST RELEVANT shows on television in any genre. It forced us to look at ourselves in a time of national crisis and made us ask difficult questions, namely - How far are we willing to go to protect our way of life? Unfortunately, the wacky obsession of one of the show's creators and pressure from the network to crank out stand-alone episodes in season 3 has BSG circling the drain. **SPOILERS** All in all, RAZOR is a major disappointment. The plot is both completely contrived and lacks any kind of focus, with a structure that is more than a little fragmented. The plotting is scattershot, with non-revelatory flashbacks to the Pegasus just after the initial Cylon attack intercut with poorly written and realized scenes on the "present day" Galactica and Pegasus. We're introduced to Kendra, a recently arrived lieutenant on the Pegasus who becomes something of a protégé to Admiral Cane. The flashbacks show Kendra's "trial by fire" in the moments after the attack. Scenes that take place in the "present day" (their choice of words) contain painfully clunky expository dialogue to fill in the blanks. It's a clumsy device that even a novice screenwriter will recognize as more than a little obvious. Razor follows Kendra as she watches Cane commit atrocities in the name of keeping the fight going. Then, Kendra slowly begins to fall under Cane's spell and is soon participating in these barbaric acts. In the "present day", we see Kendra brood over her actions. Did she do the right thing? Was Cane a strong commander or a madwoman? A little bit of IV drug use helps her forget. The film felt like it was put together from leftovers of previously shot scenes and sequences that ended up on the cutting room floor. Kendra is NEVER in a scene with Bill Adama or the President. Mostly, she's shot in close-ups or two-shots with Lee Adama, making one think that short, cheap filler scenes were shot in order to tie together fragments of pre-existing scenes/sequences. Was somebody tasked with finding a way to use old scenes? The script is something of a failure and is loaded with the kinds of contrivances overused by rookie writers. We've got the malfunctioning bomb timer, the clichéd, metaphor-rich speech "We all have to be razors!" and the appearance of yet another 6 to expose Cane's "special relationship" as sheer manipulation. The inclusion of the clunky 80s "tin man" Cylons was simply lame. The story ends with more tired "chosen one" BS from a cylon-human hybrid who somehow possesses omniscient knowledge of mankind's fate and Kara's special destiny. The only revelation in all of this is the actress who played Kendra. Stephanie Chaves- Jacobsen is simply frickin' (not fracking) hot! She's got a unique, sultry look her striking face was the only thing that kept me watching. It's a real shame that BSG has devolved from a carefully rendered, thought-provoking, politically relevant series into mere violent, pseudo-spiritual, sci-fi eye candy. Sure, I'll watch every single episode of the final season, but my hopes ain't high.
Very average writing sloppily put together.
When the 'flashback' mini-episode came out, I became incredibly worried of the writer's usage of unnecessary catchphrases so common in teen-oriented blockbuster action movie (ie, "let's do this thing", or "Gotcha!" after blowing up an enemy fighter). Turns out I was worrying about the wrong thing. In fact, if "Razor" had been released back in 2003 as a two part miniseries, it would have caught the attention and praises of many. But just like season 3, Razor still fails to capture the viewer's attention like the first season once so brilliantly did. The ironic thing is that the producers very carefully tried to avoid the pitfalls of the third season. No utterly irrelevant boxing match or lover affair here. In fact, it's pretty clear from the get go they are attempting to 'get back to their roots' in order to regain some of the lost audience. But in this Pegasus redux, the once profound moral choices fall flat, the on screen violence brought to innocent characters fail to shock, the acting is delivered efficiently but doesn't reach out to the viewer like it once did. In fact, even the special effects of this BSG-lite show issues that run deep at the production level. Once carefully crafted and playing an important part in immersing the audience in what 'Saving Private Ryan in space' might have looked like, the FX are now relegated to yet( another shot of big explosion followed by a rather flat (read: 2D) looking spaceship. It's just bizarre - I've read they've changed their FX company and might explain the loss of quality rendering. As for the writing, this episode wasn't too bad by TV's standard. But by BSG standard it was very weak, employing incredibly tired clichés (the last wounded soldier wanting to be left behind in order to set off the bomb comes to mind). So, to sum up: gone is the visceral experience of BSG. I rate this 5/10 because despite all the above it's very clear the writers got the message from the fans in season 3 and are genuinely making an effort. Only time will tell if they succeeded.
Abomination
I love Battlestar Galactica. It is one of the best shows ever made. I was anticipating Razor for months and was utterly devastated. It is the worse than ALL other episodes of BSG. It starts off alright, kind of slow, and it has most of the characters from Pegasus, which was nice. It went through all the things mentioned in the prior episodes accurately as well. Every other aspect was horrible. Important scenes were too short, there was absolutely no suspense, and every new thing introduced was horrible. The hybrid model that was supposed to be like God at the end was thrown in out of nowhere and made no sense. It killed me. What he said was so stupid, repeating "What has happened before will happen again" or something like that in his deep booming scary evil worst-thing-about-sci-fi voice. There is this very short scene with these different kind of Cylons where they talk in classic robotic worst-thing-about-sci-fi voices as well which was supposed to be an homage to the 1978 BSG but was so painfully stupid if you haven't seen the original. All in all, it was a butchering of one of the best few shows ever made.