Millennium: A Review

31st December, 2018.

I’m have to admit, its New Year’s Eve.

And, as I write, 2019 is about an hour or so away.

Let’s hope it’s a good one, shall we?

From where I’m sitting, the most I can hope for … ?

Frankly, is a job.

Wish me luck on that front.

I do know my nephew, Jude, and his mum — my sister, Ruth — are due over.

After all, Dr Who’s on.

Which is something to look forward to!

Tonight, though … ?

Tonight, I’ll admit it … 

I’m skint: so, even if I did drink, going to a pub would be tricky.

Assuming, of course, that the pub DOESN’T charge for entry on New /Years Eve.

So … 

What to do … ?

Reach into the collection, obviously.

Tonight’s movie … ?

Millennium … 

~≈§≈~



Millennium opens on the flight deck of TUA Flight 35.

Just as it has a near miss at 31000 feet, with a DC 10.

Near … 

But fatal.

As the near miss turns out to be a collision that removes a engine from Flight 35: and causes both it and the DC 10 to crash.

~≈§≈~

In the aftermath of the crash, crash investigator, Bill Smith (Kris Kristofferson), is sent in.

He and his team?

Find oddities about the crashed flight 35: surviving watches running backwards, being the noticeable one …

Including a strange comment on the cockpit flight recorder: one of the crew runs into the cockpit, to announce that the passengers were dead … 

And already burnt to death …

All that … ? 


All that, and Bill meets, and has a brief affair, with Louise Baltimore (Cheryl Ladd).

Little suspecting that Louise has a reason for smoking as much as she does.



~≈§≈~



Now … 

Was Millennium any good, I hear you ask … ?



I have to give you a qualified no.

Oh, granted, the messy future, a thousand years from now, looks suitable hopeless.

The basic idea — of specialist time-travellers, kidnapping those about to die, to use them to repopulate the world — is pretty solid.

The acting?

Possibly isn’t Ladd or Kristofferson’s best … but at least gets by … 

But … ?



I’ve a sneaking suspicion that Millennium could have been a lot better.

Millennium
★☆☆☆