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 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).
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.
~≈§≈~
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
★☆☆☆
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