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Bela Lugosi, Bill Corbett, Callum Keith Rennie

The Cylons began as humanity's robot servants. They rebelled and evolved and now they look like us. Their plan is simple: destroy the race that enslaved them. But when their devastating attack leaves ...( read more  read more... )human survivors, the Cylons have to improvise. Battlestar Galactica: The Plan tells the story of two powerful Cylon leaders, working separately, and their determination to finish the task.

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Directed by: Edward D. Wood Jr, Edward James Olmos

Release Date: October 27, 2009

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  • ceWEBrity
    November 3, 2009
    ceWEBrity
    Generally, Battlestar Galactica's off-series output doesn't tend to be all that strong. Though The Plan is wise to focus on Cavil, one of the show's most interesting unexplored characters, he's stranded amidst a bunch of exposition and plot retreading. This movie basically amount...( read more)s to a bunch of sinister Cylon cackling and a decent thematic arc about how circumstance shapes a person (or cyborg, as it were); marginally compelling if you're a big fan of the show's excellent writing, but not so much if you're in it for the space explosions or high drama. Another pleasant surprise is the movie's choice to flesh out Simon, most commonly known as That Black Cylon Who Doesn't Do Anything, and Rick Worthy's sharp performance leaves you feeling a little disappointed that he wasn't more prominent in the series. There are a few great character moments to be found in here, and again, you're not going to go wrong with Cavil, but this is unabashedly a fringe retelling of the plot communicated through several of Galactica's little-seen characters.

    Massive disappointments: no new Starbuck; no Roslin at all; about two minutes of Ellen, Adama, Tigh and Tyrol; extensive focus on boring Anders; and a frustratingly common use of archival footage to fill in the gaps for viewers who haven't watched the first two seasons in a while. About a third of this movie is taken directly from the series itself, partially to keep fans in the loop but likely because this didn't have much of a budget. Concurrently, there aren't any world-shattering revelations for fans of BSG found in The Plan, but it's an entertaining movie nonetheless and an extra two hours spent with some of the most sharply written characters in science fiction.
  • citoy3n
    November 18, 2009
    citoy3n
    The 90s called, they want their special effects back.
  • underwearsoup
    November 11, 2009
    underwearsoup
    I love Battlestar Galactica, its easily the best sci-fi show I've ever seen, even if it's really much more of a drama than a sci-fi show. I just love its characters, its story, its complexity, its music, its writing. There's nothing about the show that I don't like, with the ex...( read more)ception of maybe the Sharon character and maybe a couple of the stand-alone episodes which weren't up to Galactica's high standards. Other than that, I absolutely love this show so of course I was going to buy this movie, even IF 30 bucks (which is what it cost me) is too much for a movie that uses a lot of scenes that were IN the show. With that said, I still thought this was great and it's just really interesting to see the story told from the Cylons' POV, which certainly sheds light to certain aspects of the story that were only alluded to in the series itself. I also like how the story gives the Simon character much more importance than they did in the series, because Simon was easily the least used cylon in the Galactica universe, so it was nice to see his character be given a much more prominent role, even if the story centers around Brother Cavil, who's easily my favorite cylon of them all, and Dean Stockwell just literally makes this movie worth watching even if a lot of scenes are stolen from the series, Dean is so fantastic as Brother Cavil that it's just sad that he won't get proper recognition for his work in this movie just because it's a "sci-fi" show that's called Battlestar Galactica, and that's sad to me. BSG was usually regarded as one of the best shows on tv during its run, but because of the genre it fits in, it got overlooked by people and that's just sad to me. But I digress, one of the aspects I didn't like about this movie was the Cavil in the Galactica and the subplot with the kid. I get the intention of that subplot, but the end of the subplot was just really silly and it just seemed like it was a way for you to really hate the Cavil character and not because it fit the actual storyline. Battlestar Galactica villains don't have to resort to killing little kids to get you to hate them, so I didn't really like that but it's a minor thing. I definitely liked this movie better than Razor, the problem with Razor was that you had this entirely new character that you had to invest in and it was just hard to get into her character since she basically was a mix of two other characters in the show. It was just hard to buy into her character and to invest in her emotionally. In this case, you have series regulars and it was much easier to get into the movie. With that said I think that this movie certainly helps fills some gaps that were left over from the series. Edward James Olmos said that The Plan is not the last BSG movie and I can appreciate what he's trying to do by saying that, but it'll be hard to do another movie without risking the integrity of the series. I'm sure they could come up with another story of something that happened in between seasons but I hope that that's not the case and this coming from a huge BSG nerd and all I want is more BSG. I'm sure I'd buy all the movies if they made more but y'all get what I mean. With that said, this is a great movie for BSG fans, and fans who've watched the entire series not people who want to get into the series. That's all I can really say honestly, I definitely recommend it to the fans of the show.
  • dredzag
    November 10, 2009
    dredzag
    Loved the show and I thoroughly enjoyed watching it all from the Cylon point of view! If youre at all into BSG, you'll enjoy this.
  • spike001975
    November 4, 2009
    spike001975
    Gives a nice insight into the Cylons during the first 2 seasons of the series, but doesn't answer anything that the final season didn't already answer.
  • sundby1
    November 1, 2009
    sundby1
    Good "behind the scenes" of the Cylons. Too bad this show is over, many good avenues were left unexplored.
  • elpasmo
    October 31, 2009
    elpasmo
    Good film from a different point of view. You have to have watched the tv show before trying this.

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    November 4, 2009
    spike001975
    Anyone know why Flixster has this movie being directed by Ed Wood?
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