If you happen to have 85 minutes to kill, then Final Mission could well be a film you might want to watch. Or then again, it might not. It is basically Top Gun with added science fiction nonsense.
The creators of the film decided to use Virtual Reality, adding it to the tried and tested ... Read review
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and recorded during four sell-out nights at the Shepherds Bush Empire London in early 2008 - this four disc set sees the band going out in a blaze of glory as they play through a back catalogue of songs from their first four albums - The First Chapter God's Own Medicine Children and Carved in Sand plus other favourites! What better way could there have been to end it all? After 22 years the final four Mission shows at London's Shepherds Bush Empire was a glorious celebratory occasion as I'd hoped it would be when I agreed to play the shows and the memory will live with me for a very long time. It was fantastic to see so many familiar faces in the audience on each of the four nights and to see so many people that we'd met on our travels around the world in the preceding years. I personally know of people that came for the final shows from as far as USA Canada Australia Brazil Argentina Japan and South Africa as well as our European friends that made the journey from across the channel. DVD I - The Final Chapter 1. Amelia 2. Hands Across The Ocean 3. Into The Blue 4. Paradise (Will Shine Like The Moon Tonight) 5. Butterfly On A wheel 6. Sea Of Love 7. Grapes Of Wrath/Lovely 8. Bird Of Passage 9. Belief 10. Hungry As the Hunter 11. Deliverance 12. Like a Child Again 13. Mr Pleasant DVD II - The Final Chapter 1. Like A Hurricane 2. Over The Hills And Far Away 3. Bridges Burning 4. Dance On Glass 5. Stay With Me 6. Island In A Stream 7. Love Me To Death 8. Dream On 9. Afterglow 10. Fabienne 11. Severina 12. Wake (rsv) 13. Forevermore 14. 1969 15. Shelter From The Storm 16. Tower Of Strength DVD III - Bonus Disc Rehearsals: With extracts of: Kingdom Come Love Me To Death Black Mountain Mist Mr Pleasant Island In A Stream The Crystal Ocean Garden Of Delight 1969 Bridges Burning Heat Fabienne. running time 32:34 On The Road With The Mission: A fly on the wall insight into the European tour leading up to the Shepherds Bush Empire shows. running time. K'Ħln Live Music Hall K'Ħln Germany Full versions of: Kingdom Come Beyond The Pale and Garden Of Delight filmed live. running time. After show party at the Shepherds bush empire with live footage of Serpents Kiss and Wasteland for the season ticket holders. running time. Interviews: Miles Hunt from the Wonder Stuff interviews Wayne Hussey Simon Hinkler and the band plus fan interviews at the show. running time.
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Advantages: Good fliying scenes Disadvantages: Eye candy
...85 minutes to kill, then Final Mission could well be a film you might want to watch. Or then again, it might not. It is basically Top Gun with added science fiction nonsense.
The creators of the film decided to use Virtual Reality, adding it to the tried and tested Top Gun format. But seemed, sadly, totally unaware of what Virtual Reality actually is.
Virtual Reality is a computer generated method of providing an artificial ... ...an environment or a situation that they cannot be in real life. Either it would be too dangerous or otherwise impracticable for them to be in the real environment.
Lawnmower Man or any episode of Star Trek voyager shows what Virtual Reality is. Although the use of Holographic imagery and force fields in Star Trek voyager is several steps beyond the technology available for the foreseeable future.
If you happen to have 85 minutes to kill, then Final Mission could well be a film you might want to watch. Or then again, it might not. It is basically Top Gun with added science fiction nonsense.
The creators of the film decided to use Virtual Reality, adding it to the tried and tested Top Gun format. But seemed, sadly, totally unaware of what Virtual Reality actually is.
Virtual Reality is a computer generated method of providing an artificial simulated environment to enable people to pretend to be in an environment or a situation that they cannot be in real life. Either it would be too dangerous or otherwise impracticable for them to be in the real environment.
Lawnmower Man or any episode of Star Trek voyager shows what Virtual Reality is. Although the use of Holographic imagery and force fields in Star Trek voyager is several steps beyond the technology available for the foreseeable future.
The Virtual Reality scenes in the film are laughable. Why? Because they are so painfully pathetic that it beggars belief that they were allowed out into a finished film. It seemed little better than the computer generated images of the much earlier film Tron (1982) for goodness sake!
The producers of the film seem to have confused the concept of Virtual Reality with one of a sort of enhanced viewing system, or "Hyper Reality" as it is called in the film. How providing a pilot with poor quality images to replace the real images that he can see with his own eyes is intended to help the pilot was never adequately explained in the film.
Another problem with the film is that the plot is filled with holes. Pilots are not murdered by their superior officers whilst their fighter jet planes are blown up or smashed to pieces. Why? Because both are far too expensive for that.
And the conspiracy theories (yes, theories plural, as there seem to be more than one group plotting and scheming for a variety of nefarious reasons) seem overblown and unnecessarily complicated.
The pilots are programmed with numerical codes to shoot themselves with their USAAF issue Colt .45 automatics, should things go wrong. Yeah, right...
The film leaves much unanswered. If Caitlin Cole really is part of the conspiracy and is willing to even at least think about killing her boyfriend, Captain Frank 'Outlaw' Waters, the hero of the film, how come he doesn't tell her to take a hike and seems willing to spend the rest of his life with her?
However, the flying scenes are well-directed and filmed and the film is OK, if you do not expect more than a nice bit of eye candy.
This was another on my Poundland finds. For details of Poundland, please check out my Poundland Review.
Advantages: good mtv spoof, music video Disadvantages: dull movie, too many 'Tom is great' featurettes
a lot on what must be things that can be displayed in fine detail. One thing that's driven across again though is that Tom Cruise is great-everyone loves him on the set and he's great. Yeah thanks for that now what about the stunts ?
The Metallica music video for 'I Disappear' is also included and featreus the band in some action segements such as driving cars at high speed, a take on 'North By Northwest' and Lars Ulrich jumping out of a building. It's a great track and a great video. It's one of the reasons I have the dvd.
Next up is an alterantive titles sequence that runs for anout 45 seconds and is very pointless. There isn't much difference between this and the final titles. Still it's nice to have a look I suppose.
The real gem on this dvd is an MTV spoof called 'Mission Improbable'. This was done for the MTV Movie Awards ...
Captain Tom 'Outlaw' is a crack pilot on a secret experimental Air Force programme. He knows he's been trained to hunt and destroy, but he doesn't know he's been programmed to kill on command...
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
4DIGITAL MEDIA; PINNACLE VISION
Release date
18/03/2002
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
DVD 2193
Barcode
5034741219310
Languages
Main Language
English
Technical information
Aspect Ratio
4:3 Full Frame
Sound
Dolby Digital Stereo
Dubbing Sound
Dolby Digital Stereo English
DVD Description
Captain Tom 'Outlaw' is a crack pilot on a secret experimental Air Force programme. He knows he's been trained to hunt and destroy, but he doesn't know he's been programmed to kill on command...
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