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7/10
Getting less cheesy
mikeholmes-480127 October 2016
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So i guess this is a thing but episode starts off with them in danger somewhere jumping out of a burning building with common items like body bags and extinguishers. Oddly Jack jumps with Mac, i would have waited to see if it worked for Mac and then went from there. Now home, Jack has a tradition of heists in front of his dads grave and talks to him. The stone faces him as he leans on the stone in front, this huge 5-6 foot and equally as wide stone which i told my wife, must kill his dads view. Its like when my dad had a house get torn down next to him and a Huge 3 story Mc mansion put up. I told my wife maybe its a Mc-Cemetery stone. Ilaughed, she didn't and started facebooking. So they have to go to Malaysia to get this rich hedge fund kid who is wanted for fraud and hiding there and helping Terrorists D-77 with their funding transaction stuff. Mac realizes he has to break his security system which is high tech and wireless. This facinated me and i was eager to learn but it was just making it go off and watching him press the combination. Disappointing.Old Macgyver would have explained how baking powder disables them or something or am i thinking of how the TV News explain in detail how hoodlums derailed a train with a simple peg or something. Anyhow, they get him, and smart D-77 terrorists must have had someone with a large gun keeping tabs. So he is sniper shot by a large gun that according to my crime shows, should have made a bigger hole and more internal damage if it didn't exit (i don't recall them mentioning it but i had a 3 year old and wife yapping and i was yelling "No talking during Macgyver" its a nice thing to yell again, like "Who didn't put more Ecto Cooler in the Fridge") So they somehow jump in the guys car and drive off with stupid banter with him constantly being like how valuable his car is while being mortally wounded. Makes sense. I did like how they called him an Asshat, you don't hear that much and its a funny term.

So the Lisa Bonet looking computer girl is finding a doctor and picks a golf course and finds one. A bald with a mullet Malaysian wearing headband hat thing hat who just happens to have Translation software in his golf cart so they can talk. Anyone else notice one scene where you see the computer and you see someone said "this translation thing sucks". so he informs them they need to do surgery now. I was like i really don't want to watch this but they did it very G rated. no blood and guts, only if you use your imagination when he uses a tire jack to spread the ribs which somehow was painless and worked. So the bad guys find them, gun battle where no one is somehow shot, D-77 needs A.) new snipers B.) better guns C. ) better thugs with better aim. They go up an elevator which must have thwarted thugs who didn't notice it stopped at floor 8. Then they see a secretary down the hall and this scares them cause the guy is bloody. She's a threat but Lisa Bonet goes to her and says she hacked their system and will expose all their shady deals and the secretary compiles to get her boss or something. Was this a D-77 building or unrelated? where was the boss later? Is all Malaysia corrupt like the last episode taught me Venezuela is? So Mac decides to use office supplies and Blood pressure Medication to make the bad guy fake his death. So somehow they exit the building (D-77 guys need to learn how to secure a perimeter unless i missed that part due to talking) and then bring him to an outside street party where they will cause him to fake die. Mac promises him he'll be safe, the guy buys it but says he needs to call his mom and be a better person etc etc. So Jack and Mac hijack a Ambulence to pick up the fake dead guy (white American ambulance drivers in Malaysia. normal) and then they see D-77 guys paying the cops for the body. Corrupt. So D-77 want the body to cut off the head to prove he is dead but Mac saves the day. a couple of stupid flaws happened in the ensuing fight that i missed a lot fuming over them. Maybe not so much flaws but fight stuff that seemed too fake or convenient. They then bring the guy home so he can get Witness protection and hes still a cocky douche. He tried to hug the female Peter Thorton but she wouldn't have it. IT then occurred to me that Original MacGyver Peter Thortons real name was Dana. Thats a girls name. Is that relevant or am i drinking too much beer? Anyhow the series is growing on me and i can forgive them for bastardizing Richard Dean Anderson era Macgyver but can't see this show making it past a season with all the corniness . Out of self respect, i cant even talk about the MacGyver's roommates film project scenes. MacGyver should be living on a house boat with some house plants. THe episode ended with them making a "Mail is old fashioned " joke bit when Mac writes either his Dad or Granddad who use mail. As a printer, mail is still used and much more effective than advertising via email and such as it is tangible and cannot be deleted in a second.
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7/10
Another extraction
tenshi_ippikiookami2 April 2017
"MacGyver"'s first episodes are shining in the writing department because of their lack of originality. The team has to go abroad, again, to get someone out, again, to stop some bad people of making things explode, again.

Happily for the viewers, the show amps up the humor and the inventions of MacGyver are fun and original enough to make the episode the best so far. Episode by episode, the series seems to be happily embracing the silliness of its premise and this time MacGyver will have to use his brain a lot to keep their target alive. It helps that the episode has an acceptable level of humor and a nice pace, with good direction (even if not particularly memorable) in the action scenes.

If it keeps this level, it will be watchable enough (even if it seems clear that it won't be able to come close to the levels of the original).
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4/10
I'm a Malaysian
joetosan15 October 2016
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1. Malaysia a tropical country. The trees are all wrong. 2. OK nice try with the Malaysian car license plate. It's close enough but we don't use the letter "z" and why is everyone's car has "LZ"? 3. Drivers would be on the right side of the car here and of course, we drive on the left. 4. Everybody learns English since kindergarten here. So for a doctor to say he didn't speak English is pretty funny to us Malaysians. (yea that's what he said) His Malay is terrible so I doubt that's even a Malay speaking...Come on guys, I could have done the VO for you guys for free! come back ! 5. Prescription bottles don't look like that over here. 6. ERT's uniform and vehicles are all off but the cop car is quite close :) 7. those little signs all over the place is quite real. 8. OK the doctor couldn't speak English but when the dude falls on a street everyone seems to speak English. The amazing thing was, that English sounded so Malaysian hahaha. How did you do that?

I think this is probably the first time Malaysia is shown on a TV show or movie in a nice way. I think it's the closest. Zoolander made everyone think the Malaysian prime minister wears a Buddhist robe. You know his son is one of the producers for wolf of wall street right?

I love Macguyver. I hope it gets better.Big shoes to fill.
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1/10
Once again, the ignorance of the writers on the body of knowledge is shown...
shamimislam-6699312 October 2016
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The writers seem to just not get the fact that their knowledge is so limited that their writing is poor in dialog and not well-thought-out.

There are so many movies with proper military tactics that this episode is just ridiculous on so many levels.

And the haphazard medical procedures and the escape tactics - ridiculous.

Body bags if not fully zipped are not air-tight and therefore cannot be used as airbag because the explosive pressure from the fire extinguisher will open the zipper. Result: Mac and Jack will perish.

A watcher for a target will have a backup on the other side of the house and will not use a sniper rifle. They will be mobile. So therefore, this premise is false. Result: Mac and Jack will perish.

An open gun-shot-wound creates pneumothorax which prevents breathing. Especially if the lung is punctured. You need to vacate the air. Result: The accountant will perish.

Smoke bomb - would make the car fill with smoke so Jack would not be able to drive. Result: Mac, Jack and the accountant will perish.

Surgery requires a sterile field: this means sterile air or at least non-moving air so pathogens and crap do not enter an open wound. Result: accountant will perish in the back of the SUV.

Suction of the hemothorax does not require significant extraction of blood - just like 1 pint: while Mac is avoiding sucking out the blood with his mouth, the patient will perish of cardiac arrest.

Money laundering site hacked in Malaysia: These places are low tech so they cannot be hacked. Result: Riley fails. Mac, Jack, accountant and Riley will perish.

The Medical Examiner van is easily spotted by trained mercenaries so following them is impossible in the Medical Examiner van. Result: Riley, Mac, Jack and the accountant will perish.

Throughout, they are using inner-ear-communicators which require a tower to relay from. They are not in the US so they need to have a base station or they need to be within 33 meters of each other and reception is very poor. Their current communications should have been much more faulty. Result: All will perish.

Satellite phones give up location. The mercenaries should have found them easily. Result: all will perish.

Freon poisoning for Mac: requires oxygen after exposure in a hospital and sometimes gastric lavage. The skin would have been burned. Result: Mac will perish en route to the exfiltration.

Insulin levels increase with beta-blockers. This is what reduces blood glucose. So during simulated death, Mac adds insulin (glucose antagonist) with glucose. Result: nothing and the accountant will perish.

Security systems running on wifi: security systems run on their own cellular network in remote areas. They do not run on wifi. Disrupting the wifi to get the security code would not have worked. Result: local police would have been called. All will perish.

Identifying target location based on shell corporation: specially trained mercenaries would be too smart to set up a local company when targeting a site. Result: all folks in Miami will perish.

Realtime translation is represented as too fast: the uplink from an area as remote as the one shown would take a lot longer to translate. Result: the accountant will perish.

Realtime text-to-speech is not as accurate as depicted - between 50% to 75% without specialized software. Result - the accountant will perish.

The dialog is stilted and just not funny. The accountant's whining gets old too fast - no one would continue to act that way with their life in danger except and idiot and that idiot would not be a financial genius. Financing requires a level of shmoozing not evident.

The team just doesn't gel in their actions - MacGyver should be communicating with his teammates on what he is doing before they have to ask. They are a team. This is not Doctor Who where everyone else is MacGyver's sidekick.

The level of interaction shown with Riley and Mac's roommate is extraneous - either develop it or leave it alone. The level shown is just used as an expedient segue.

Patty Thornton walking into the room just as communication is needed - not valid. Patty Thornton would be monitoring as do all ops leads.

As you can see, the writing has not gotten any better and the tech research is getting worse, as is the knowledge of military and special ops tactics.

Please hire me or someone decent to do this work and stop spoiling the icon that MacGyver is. At least go watch some James Bond or some Scorpion or something. Stop being so proud that your ignorance shines through and your series doesn't get to season 2.

I understand that Millenials think they know everything. But this is crazy. Knowledge is power. Experience is wisdom. Humility is success. Admit what you do not know and learn through others that have the first. This is the first step in your real growth into future writing icons.
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3/10
Third Episode "Jumps the Shark"
Man992048 October 2016
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I am a big fan of the original Macguyver. I have sincerely tried to "reserve judgment" with this new reboot.

As I have watched the first three episodes of the new reboot I have thought that the writers are playing some kind of stupid joke on the viewers.

Episode Three confirms my suspicions.

In the original series MacGuyver used his wits to resolve problems. The writers for the reboot are apparently not smart enough to find plausible solutions to their problems - they resort to asinine gimmicks. In this episode they have Lucas Til perform major surgery using hand sanitizer for sterilization and a TIRE JACK as a surgical tool. This is just too incredibly stupid to bother with!

On Friday evenings I will be watching DVDs of the original series form now on.
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1/10
Utter garbage
jimmydreads9 October 2016
Completely unbelievable characters, Dalton would make a better MacGyver.

The lack of understanding and the portrayal of motion capture is not even laughable.

This series appears to be written by grade school children with limited knowledge of the real world and scientific practices. They attempt to distract viewers with shaved chests and cleavage, what's up with that? Pharmaceutical scene is complete codswallop and not even vaguely grounded in reality or logic.

Not cool using a line from Southpark in this nonsense.

Respirators with no filters!

This series will play a large part in helping the current international drop in IQ get greater. You should just watch the original MacGyver, it's infinitely better.
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