Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (2009)

Wonderful Movie

Nice effects though.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

I never thought the day would happen but it finally did. I always said I would watch a movie till the end even if it's the worst thing ever. And I saw a load of very bad movies. But with this one I just couldn't make it till the end. It's just too bad. It's a pain to watch this and why would I continue causing myself pain? The high ratings for this movie are obviously a scam. Not in a million light years this movie could have such a high rating if everybody that watched it, or tried to watch it, would have rated it. The script is just awful and it makes you wonder how the hell the guy that wrote this makes a living out of it. The actors are also really bad. Well it's just the script. You could put any actor with a script like that and it wouldn't make any difference. It's like watching a soap, a bad one, a bad galactic soap. The special effects are not even worth mentioning because they are non-existent. I used to like this show when I was young, and now after watching more than an hour of this garbage I wonder if I still would like BSG.

Why the cylons tried to kill all humans is gradually made clear in this movie. Why it failed as well. The original plan was replaced by a new plan and at the end by another one.Why kill them all? Because the humans made the first (metal) cylons and they made them wrong and therefore the new (flesh) cylons are bad as well.Why did it fail? Because the cylons were to cocky and thought they could kill them all easily. But some humans are smarter that he cylons expected them to be. And a lot other humans were just plain lucky.The original plan: kill all humans. The new plan: kill all that are left over. The last one: try to occupy our own bits of the universe.I like this movie because it connects with several strange bits in the series. The cylons are machines, but they are advanced machines, with advanced and complex brains, they have emotions, longings, moods. And as with any advanced brain, it thinks for itself, it learns, it views opposing sides of any issue. Many of the cylons that live along humans see that the differences are very small. That the way the cylons love and hate and think and plan are not very different from the human way.I think this movie shows the importance of the matter of perspective. When you're a machine that is designed to live among humans, and actually live for quite a while among humans, you will become more and more human and less and less machine.The promise that many answers would be answered in this movie is not proved, many are not answered at all. I wanted to see discussions in the cylon worlds about why and how to kill all humans. I wanted to see the cylon worlds, period. I wanted to see meetings of all cylon types. I wanted to see how the flesh cylons were made. I hope that is done in a future movie.This movie is a nice story. Don't watch it with too high expectations. Don't believe the promises, watch and think for your own. Enjoy the stock footage, enjoy the acting, the special & visual effects, the fights, and enjoy Dean Stockwell. And hope for another movie.

As a fan of the re-imagined BGS series I really look forward to watching The Plan. I got the chance to view it some time ago and it turned out to be quite a disappointment. Instead of being overwhelmed with new scenes, stories and interesting plot twists I was 'treated' with nearly 1.5 hours of old material with little new material, poorly edited as a 'Cylon diary' of their supposed intriguing plan. I will keep this review relatively short because there is few to say about this movie. BGS lost its touch and that is the end of it. I just hope that the new Caprica series turns out well and that the creators of the re-imagined BGS still have some aces up the sleeve.

I loved the new BSG, I think it is one of the best TV shows ever made. I was expecting this to contribute something new and was disappointed. Don't expect a plot, and don't expect any significant revelations. Certainly don't expect it to live up to the hype of "telling the story of two powerful Cylon leaders", or telling the story "from the point of view of all the Cylons". That's just rubbish.Over the last 10 or so episodes of BSG, we saw a few episodes which involved reviewing events to give us a reminder of what had gone before, and to put things into a new perspective by revealing more background of key characters in days leading up to the attack on the colonies, or more information on the role they played afterwards.Essentially, that is all "The Plan" is. I'm convinced it was something which was probably intended to be part of season 4 but for some reason was omitted. It centres around Brother Cavil and reveals that he had more influence over events on Galactica than we were previously aware of, and likewise his counterpart on occupied Caprica did the same. That, in a nutshell, is it. Most of the other Cylons barely get a look-in.Oh, and as for the Cylons' "Plan", don't expect to learn all about that, unless "the plan" was finding ways to mop up because the original attack didn't wipe all the humans out.To be honest I don't feel my BSG experience was lacking by not seeing this as part of Season 4. I say this because now, having seen it, I feel it contributes little, if anything, to the show. At times it feels like a series of out-takes edited together and nothing more. I've watched it once and now I'm going to sell it, that's how much it matters.