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It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

When I watched the original broadcasts of MacGyver, I had a lot of conflicting opinions: I loved the Science aspects of it. The fact that a house contained many over the counter items that were dangerous to a mind that knows science was something that had never been seriously explored in any type of series before this show premiered. And if nothing else, I always err on giving original ideas a try. But this wasn't a science fiction show. If they had tried to be, I doubt they would have gotten on the air.Science Fiction was all the rage in the movie theaters with the original trilogy of Star Wars just finishing up, Terminator and Aliens having great receptions, and the Star Trek adaptations being a monster hit. But even though Star Trek had three hundred-million dollar films in a row, the spin-off, Star Trek: Generations- which came out at the same time as MacGyver - couldn't get a network to broadcast it.MacGyver mostly concentrated on the spy-fi aspects of the show, which was a grave mistake. Whereas the creative team made a great decision to keep the science somewhat real, Producers Henry Winkler & John Rich; and the Creator of the show, Lee David Zlotoff (plus, whoever was the show runner – if they had a show runner) simply had no reasonable knowledge of the spy community, and the show suffered. Add to that the fact that the show got life due to the break-out success of writer Tom Clancy - a technical wizard of how the spy/military community worked, and the show was instantly behind the eight-ball.There were several episodes that had plot holes that one could drive an RV through. MacGyver had no concept of keeping his ID a secret - which led to bad guys coming after his family for revenge plots. A concept that got praise from the political community - MacGyver refused to use guns to shoot his assailants, even to just shoot them in the leg - led to many twisted adventures in which MacGyver would place the villains and innocent bystanders in more physical jeopardy by blowing something up to stop their attack. And the Phoenix Foundation, which employed MacGyver, seemed to lack the knowledge of how the laws of the United States worked much less the inner working of the minds of America's threats.As far as plots were concerned, there were three types of shows the first season: A Handy Man at the Right Place, and Right Time These were by far the best of the shows. It had MacGyver be an adventurer more like Indiana Jones, and Science took center stage. They covered everything from Wildcatting to Nuclear Power Plants MacGyver, established operative With the exception of the breakout sections most of these shows were the poorest written of the stories. It involved MacGyver going on assignment, but without having any clear idea of what a spy does or a spy agency for that fact. It's not like I know, but there were more than a few times that MacGyver would give out his agency's address and phone number, and ask some stranger to just make contact. At the end of every show, every character would know that character was a spy and working for a top-secret organization that was always named. Some secret ID.Propaganda Basically, there was a Soviet plot everywhere. Not to dismiss the Russians, but it was incredible that so many Russian spies were operating unimpeded in the United States. That was the opinion back then. Now? Living in the age of Trump? With everyone knowing who the Russian spies are, with the possible exception of the Donald, and all of those spies under surveillance, these stories seem even more impossible.What Rich/Winkler/Zlotoff did do right was mix a seventies action show philosophy with low budget special effects. Their unit teams were top notch, and never once did anyone watch their shows and accuse them of cheesy special effects or production values. This made the science seem more urgent, and gave a tension to science never before shown. Would the Science work? Would it be effective? There were several stories in which MacGyver faced intimidating technology only to bend it to his knowledge of the science behind it. This fueled a hunger of Science in the show's audience. (Which backfired on adult watchers: As the show became popular, the creative team devolved the character into a role model and went for kid friendly plots.) Also, the creative team scored big by giving the lead role to Richard Dean Anderson, who created a complete lead character that had never been allowed in either a science fiction show nor a spy-fi adventure before this show's run. He was modest, self-effacing, aloof, and yet still an action hero. He didn't know everything about science, just enough to get him out of jams. MacGyver often used science that seemed to point to some say a prayer plot. (Save me! Please) But as the character would often say: He was open to a better plan. Without this deep mannered portrayal, Mulder of the X-Files could not have existed. (Again, Anderson's good work goes out the window after season one.) MacGyver was a great idea that needed a stronger creative team(...maybe one that would have tried to keep this a serious show after the first season?) Could you imagine what would have happened had they had someone with the technical knowledge of Tom Clancy as a co-Creator of the show, and Stephen J. Cannell as the Producer? But as it is, the show is just sort of maddening.

They don't make them like this anymore. Despite the cheesy 80's and 90's moments, this show is pure gold. The core values and themes are second to none and I can't wait until my son is old enough to watch this so he can learn the MacGyver way. THINK FIRST, THINK FAST, DO GOOD, BE GREAT.

MacGyver was James Bond in the USA ,if he was a boy scout and he could make his gadgets on the fly. In general the series follow Angus (yes that is his true name) MacGyver a secret agent who is send to stop issues, save people and you know spy stuff. But he has some differences with the majority of the other spies around the world, he dislikes guns( you and Bats, my man) and he at times stumbles in to problems that he could just let them be ,but he tries to find solutions anyway.That was the essence of MacGyver, any problem has at least one solution and if you give it the time ,you can find it out. One other thing, that made this hero stand out of his co-workers was that he could made anything from anything, like :Bamboo, wire ,dark tape (of course) and his trusted Swiss army knife and you get an plane! Wow! Now does anything it showed really happened ,well not anything and not so easy but it still amazes me how realistic the design were and I am sure that the producers and actors and actress on set were enjoy the experience.The last part that makes in my point of view MacGyver ,apart no doubt of his ingenuity, was his kindness, simple needs and he really wanted anyone to be happy with his solutions ,if both parties had a point! This is big of the series took place in the eighties the period when in USA the norm was "be part of the crowd", "Noone wants you as you" , "Make a profit no matter the cost". In short the Reagan era, during which the economy bombed and markets became the force that we know ,so to have a character who doesn't believe in assimilation of anybody to one single plan and that capitalism is perfect ,was a big deal! His message was there is room for all, no one is 100% right or wrong and if you fall doesn't mean you are a loser, although they were episodes and characters with this story lines too. Whatever you can not be original every time.The greatest part is that the series made some episodes that openly criticized the Cold War ,who was close to get warm in the eighties and that no one really wants to get there from both sides, apart from some individuals who had power from this fear of War. For me those were the best episodes and showed that the big message of the show was "Stop this madness ,before is too late". So when this period actually ended the series followed soon after, but the last two seasons (1991 and 1992) weren't worse than the previous five rather showed Mac and his friends work to repair the issues that, this period left of the new generations and to those who knew that for all their life try to give them hope for "There is life after that, nothing its over".The last messages really we should remember for nowadays we hear about the end of the world as we know it ,but guys a world also ended between of 1989 and 1991 and we still live ,so there is a tomorrow, but who is going to be is up to us.Now is the series perfect , well no it is at times dated , the effects look chip and some of the stories can't be understood unless you have a general understand of the world during that period. So if you want to enjoy it to 100% you should read some history in Wikipedia and suffer some stunts that are clearly fake, for we talk about a television series in the '80 not in the twenty first century so there are things that today are better. Whoever is still enjoyable!In general still good ,you will have fun and if you over thirty show it to your kids, if they are over ten.

MacGyver is a very good series about a man which can do impossible things that other man maybe didn't can so much as MacGyver can.Richard Dean Anderson act very well as MacGyver. It looks so real when MacGyver do this impossible things.MacGyver is worth 1 Oscar for Best film-series and for Best Actor for Richard Dean Anderson.I want to see more series like MacGyver.You can see beautiful nature and environments in the series and that is very fascinating.I can recommended MacGyver!!!!