Paul McGann, Eric Roberts, Daphne Ashbrook

The newly-regenerated Doctor takes on the Master on the turn of the millennium, 31 December 1999.

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Unrated, 89 min.

Directed by: Geoffrey Sax

Release Date: May 12, 1996

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  • June 8, 2007
    Good TARDIS interior set designs and good special effects; but the plot was weak and confusing. More work should've gone into it. The San Francisco setting didn't feel much like Doctor Who. Poor Sylvester McCoy, Doctor #7, didn't have a very nice sendoff. Paul McGann was a great ...( read more)choice to play the 8th Doctor. He had a good costume and romantic personality. I didn't like the new Master (played by Eric Roberts) with his new guise and body-swapping abilities. The Doctor's lovely new companion Dr. Grace was a warm way to welcome the new Doctor. By writing a poor script, the writers basically wrote off the possibility of a new series with McGann every happening. It wasn't the time or the space for him. Instead we're left with an 8th Doctor animated webcast, and a series of novels and audio adventures which we can't see onscreen.
  • May 3, 2007
    Not the best thing I've seen for Doctor Who. Paul Mc Gann was incorrect for the role and putting it in the States was also very WRONG. The 60's movie is way better than this. Please don't watch this stay with Tennent's TV Show-miles better!
  • February 3, 2009
    Not bad but it did get a bit boring in parts.
  • May 23, 2008
    Great story, but the interior of his TARDIS was too far off the mark. The locker seen with him trying on the scarf broke me up though.
  • August 17, 2007
    It's good, sort of. Paul does a good job. But in the future never ever let the Americans do the Doctor again!
  • August 20, 2009
    It's ok, I guess. the Americans wern't quite sure how to handle this I think.

    We get the expected performance from Eric Roberts..... ie: wooden.

    The doctor has a snog huh? well good for him.

    the usual Hollywood vein, 3 or 4 endings, pretended as just rounding up.

    Is t...( read more)here no good writers in America? no it's justthe horrible formularic thing, but hey

    This is Doctor Who & this is the first time in about 6 months that I've seen somthing American which dosn't begin with "& there was a big explosion" & end with "& there was a big explosion" so if we can get people to think that we want something more than "& there was a big explosion" then it's got to be good.
  • June 27, 2009
    muh, some discrepancies between this film and the rest of the Doctor Who canon it was just okay
  • June 16, 2009
    I'm a Whovian from WAY back so when the series was cancelled in 89 I was STARVED for Who when 96 rolled around. Now granted this isn't any kind of great cinematic masterpiece, but I do think it was as WHO as a bunch of Americans could get. Paul McGann is actually one of my top ...( read more)5 favorite Doctors because he made this incarnation so different and yet still The Doctor. It was refreshing to see the Doctor so free and full of life again. He got a bit dark as Seven. Weellll, I say dark I mean Semi-Machiavellian. It's a fun watch, I'd recommend it. :D NOT the Enhanced Version put out by the BBC though. Ran that throught a blender, they did. Awful mess.
  • June 8, 2009
    i so love doctor who man it kicks butt
  • May 29, 2009
    UNDERRATED! this should have been in the cinema

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  • hatoola12
    November 12, 2007
    this film was too shirt but good. like a long apisod....the serios is the best!! my favorit!!

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