Invasion Omnibus Star Trek All @ Amazon.com
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This is a strange film in regards to depicting abduction of Westerners and terrorism, it plays all the cards of the nightmare of Westerners being abducted for no evident reason, taken to a dingy location, blindfolded of course and told to give them selective information which the foreigner pleads does not recognise what on world they are talking about. It stars Ryan Philippe (Crash) as the seemingly good natured Dutchman Martijn (his Dutch accent is flawless) with a Moroccan girlfriend Saadia played by Touriya Haoud going to Morocco to set up a feed aide program, to support her people. Along with Gavin played by Colm Meaney (Star Trek The Next Generation) as his happy-go-lucky tour guide, rather of making the necessary contacts to setup his feed program, they are unceremoniously abducted in a bus in Morocco, drugged, and when Ryan Philippe wakes up, he is confronted by Ahmat played by the magnificent Laurence Fishburne (Morpheus in the Matrix), who proceeds at initial to toy with him by having him play chess before going to other means to extract his information. His African accent is spot on, and along with his associate Aicha played by Gina Torres (Firefly), with an evenly impressive African accent, they proceed to go in regards to extracting info by the uneasy methods of the film title. The acting is brilliant, and you feel for the poor Dutch fellow who has been abducted unnecessarily when he was only looking to start out up a feed program to help the persons of Morocco, the torture scenes are not for the faint hearted, and you will wince in a few scenes, and you may no doubt guess from the title that each appendage has in store for it, a great deal of gruesome scenes. Most helpful customer reviews 0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Long ranging plot is glacially slow in season 3. These episodes are very high quality, entertaining and well worth seeing, yet they are run-of-the-mill Star Trek Franchise Format episodes. Most episodes are self contained and few are sequentially plot driven. You could pick and choose episodes as you like out of this season and never loose the thread. All this character development is great for the following seasons where the show concentrates on a more story arc form. The shift to the arc is highly effective because of the rich character development in these early seasons. Episodic highlights include: Episodes 1 & 2 “The Search” which brings Odo home. Episode 3, “The House of Quark” is a delightfully fun Klingon-Ferrangi cultural exchange. Episode 6 “The Abandoned”, explores the Jem’Hadar from birth. Two-Parter 11 & 12 “Past Tense” is a fun Star Trek Time Travel Tale. The crème de la crème of this season is the two-parter episodes 20 & 21 “Improbable Cause” and “The Die is Cast” which brings the intriguing and always fun Garak to center stage, a great character honed to perfection by actor Andrew J. Robinson, in these two great episodes. |
Great Character Development