Spidersecu Don't Believe the Hype

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

trashgang I grew up with all those series from the end of the seventies, early eighties so when they become available I try to pick them up. So I did with The Bionic Woman but it just couldn't fulfill my expectations. I have seen The Six Million Dollar Man last year and it was great. I never had any problem with the way it was done with the effects. But here with this series it sometimes do has a cheesy feeling. I have seen so many things that looked laughable and didn't stand up for the time being. I mean, if a door is blocked by a stone and Jaime (Lindsay Wagner) is given her force against the rock it's so easy to spot that it isn't a real rock and when she do split the rock with her feet just look, you could see that it was made from styrofoam. It never occurred to me that I saw those cheesy things with the Six Million Dollar Man. Some effects were rather good, like her leg being damaged and it reveales the wires inside.Don't misunderstand me, it isn't all that bad, Lindsay do give a good performance and being a spin-off of the Six Million Dollar Man it do works sometime but when Lee Majors do appear it do level up a bit. Let me also say that Claws was the strangest thing to experience. Back then everything was possible. There weren't any restrictions and it shows. Just see how a real lion walks in a class full of children. They even may touch him. Can't think that's possible nowadays. In that particular episode all animals do walk around on a ranch, from ape to lion to elephant to everything you get in your mind. But not only that, in Claws the lion even opens a door. It's a close-up of his claws opening the door, and it's so clear that it was a fake leg from the lion. It makes it all so cheesy, really.They also used real footage from the army when necessary, a thing they also did in The Six Million Dollar Man. For me it's between The Six Million Dollar Man (the use of the sound and slo- mo when using her bionic powers) and Wonder Woman (the cheesy use of styrofoam). A mediocre series.Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 1/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5

gregoryshnly I am in the UK and although I have the region2 DVD set of "The Bionic Woman",I purchased the region1 version as it had the two Big Foot episodes missing form the region2 set.I had read there were problems with the episode "Deadlier Ringer",the sound is awful,I emailed Universal directly and was told,we can't replace discs to anyone outside US or Canada,charming!Have been offered a return by Amazon if I return the whole DVD set but then I'm without the two Big Foot episodes which work fine.Seems like overseas money is accepted to buy a DVD but its clearly tough if you've any problems.

ShadeGrenade Have you ever wondered why the spin-off from 'The Six Million Dollar Man' was not called 'The Six Million Dollar Woman'? Apparently, the network rejected the title on the grounds it made Lindsay Wagner sound like the world's most expensive hooker. Its true! The character of 'Jaime Sommers' first appeared in a two-part episode of the parent show, then in its second season. Steve Austin ( Lee Majors) is happily reunited with his childhood sweetheart, but just as they look all set to tie the knot, she is injured in a skydiving accident. Dr.Rudy Wells and his team replace her legs, arm and ear with bionic parts, and soon she and Steve are bounding about the countryside in slow motion to the accompaniment of bad love songs ( sung by Majors ). But she rejects her new bionic bits, and dies ( or seems to ). Reaction was so strong Jaime returned the following year ( she had been placed in suspended animation ), and then landed her own show. A loss of memory means she does not recall her love for Steve, and the O.S.I. ( Office of Strategic Information ) puts her to work as an undercover secret agent. When not breaking into Russian Embassy safes to retrieve stolen microfilm containing America's missile defence plans or thwarting diabolical masterminds, she is to be found teaching children at a Air Force Base school.It was nice to have a woman as the lead in a '70's show, but nicer still that she could actually act. Strapping lads like yours truly wasted no time in putting her picture on the bedroom wall ( next to Linda Hayden and Maddy Smith ). The show's plots were interchangeable with those of the parent ( at least one episode was a scene-for-scene remake ) but it was no flop in 'The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.' sense. Like 'Charlie's Angels', some stories seem to have been written just to give Wagner a chance to either dress up or sing. Vincent Price and Evel Knievel ( as himself ) both guested. Richard Anderson must have been happy seeing how he was being paid for playing 'Oscar Goldman' in two prime-time shows. Notable episodes include the two-parter 'Doomsday Is Tomorrow' in which Jaime comes up against a 'Demon Seed'-like computer, the three-parter 'Kill Oscar!' with John Houseman as a madman who has invented 'Fembots' ( no, Mike Myers did not devise the word! ), and 'Deadly Ringer' in which Jaime is put in prison while a double takes her place. The latter contains a harrowing scene ( for the time ) - Jaime bawling her head off in a padded cell. Wagner copped an Emmy for her performance - rightly so.'The Bionic Woman' was a big hit both in Britain and America. 'Look-In' ran a two-page comic strip based on it, later combined with 'Six Million Dollar Man' to make 'Bionic Action'. There was a change of network before the third and final season got underway. It made the mistake of bringing in ( if you can believe it ) the bionic dog - an Alsatian named Max. The bionic phenomenon was scraping the bottom of the barrel. The last episode - 'On The Run' - was a spoof of 'the Prisoner' with Jaime resigning and waking up in an internment camp because the information in her head was priceless. Lindsay reprised the role of 'Jaime' for a bunch of T.V. movies in the late '80's, the last one - 'Bionic Ever After' - had her marrying Steve at long last.In 2007, along came the dreaded remake. Starring ( if that's the right word ) British actress Michelle Ryan as 'Jaime', it unwisely tried to darken the concept. The producers disparaged the original, thereby ensuring hardcore fans would boycott the new show in droves. It was axed after less than a dozen episodes. Like the 'Night Stalker' retread, the new 'Bionic Woman' team should have studied the original closely to see what it was that made it work. The assumption was that more money and bigger special effects would mean a better show. Wrong. Computer gimmickry can never replace a charismatic star such as Wagner.

Juan XXXX Lindsay, if you read this , I'd love if you sent me a message. The bionic woman has the most incredible and cute series I've ever watched when I was a child. Richard Anderson Lindsay Wagner Martin E. Brooks All of them I was a child from Barcelona , Spain And I enjoyed the series, because in that was showed the importance of being kind, good person, sensitive, etc, and Lindsay was a great and talented actress, for sure.I have a question for the people: in the first episods , Lindsay didn't have an injury in her lip, but after 4 episods she had an injury in her lip... anyone knows what was the reason and how?Thanks a lot