The Final Countdown

DVD, The Champions

The one with the syrup as I like to think of it. All those super powers and it takes but a jar of syrup to save the day. There's a moral in there somewhere... Actually their powers weren't quite as in evidence in this one, or used in less spectacular ways. Look at the post-credits bit. It's a nice little scene with children playing in the snow, and it's good to have something different, but the likelihood of them finding a bomb a few centimetres under the snow, whacking it against a pice of wood, and it only explodes when Richard rushes to the rescue and throws it away... well let's just say that's not the end of such illogic.

Take the scene with one of the best stunts they ever did - chucking a car off a clifftop, like it's James Bond. Not even thinking too much about the padding, such as the guy getting out of the car, opening the gate and the cars drive through, and... etc - there was a bit too much padding all over, with slow scenes, and Nemesis taking so long to track the place down. But back to the illogic, if that be a word. The car gets mashed, yet the unfortunate driver appears in hospital with his only damage seemingly to his voicebox as he can't speak. Hardy men these Germans!

You have to admire the sets sometimes, such as the outside shots, which looked real. And the fight was pretty exciting, even though it was odd the Germans didn't use their guns. They were taken unawares, and maybe they'd emptied their guns to be on the safe side? As much as it had some great stuff (Richard and Craig's synchronised leaping through glass windows, Craig's chair snapping, Tremayne's involvment on the phones, and what usually would be the tag scene which happened early on in the episode where he wants Richard to explain and they disappear!), the padding dragged it down, and it took too long to tell it's story where it could have made more excitement or quirks.

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