Anything that has to do with MacGyver is a perfect 10 in my opinion. RDA is an excellent actor with incredible range and a great sense of humor, and the pinnacle of his career was MacGyver! His other works that show his range include Through the Eyes of a Killer in which he plays a psychotic killer, Pandora's Clock where he plays a airline pilot who was in the Gulf War, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (TV series, not the movie) where he plays the oldest brother (And he sings too, not bad!), Past the Bleachers where he plays a grieving father, Beyond Betrayal where he plays a bad cop, In the Eyes of a Stranger where he plays a troubled cop, Legend where he plays a 19th century dime novelist who ends up impersonating the main character in his series of books (part comedy, part serious send up that is similar to The Wild Wild West TV series), and of course Stargate SG-1 where he plays at first an Air Force Colonel and then a Brigadier General. All of this from one man; so did I say MacGyver is a perfect 10? Well so is RDA!

This starts with Angus MacGyver and his old college professor Fat Shouting Actor Atticus going on a little jaunt to the Balkans to pick up some artifacts . You think being educated men Angus and Atticus would have picked up the artifacts before or after everyone in the region started killing one another but if they did that we wouldn't have a story . Strangely enough the first act is completely disposable and seems to exist only as a social conscience so we can hear MacGyver spouting lines like " mYou're committing ethnic cleansing , racial genocide " . Perhaps the worst thing about this is that you find yourself questioning if this is the right platform for people to be making these kind of speeches , I mean MACGYVER is supposed to be a fun show so should it be concerning itself with real life geo-political issues ? I mean in THE A TEAM no one came out with " The Republicans are obesessed with neo liberal market forces , so by helping ourselves we're not doing anything Reagan isn't doing " . You also can't help noticing that " The Balkans look suspiciously like Battersea Power Station in London . Guess where this sequence was filmed ? After being hit over the head as to why ethnic cleansing and racial genocide are bad things MacGyver and Atticus depart " The Balkans " and go to London ( Ha Ha Ha But they've been in London the whole time - I meant another part of London ) where the plot is explained and Angus and Atticus embark on an adventure to an exotic location - Actually a quarry . A lot of people describe this TVM as an Indiana Jones rip off but it's more in keeping with DOCTOR WHO since no matter where in the universe the characters go it always ends up looking like a few minutes drive from London Fans of MACGYVER might like this feature length adventure ( Most probably the 100 or so people who worked on it and gave 10/10 on this site ) but I didn't

This tv-movie picked up right where the series ended and did a great job of delivering another MacGyver adventure! There's lots of great acting by all the cast, and some pretty cool music too. There's plenty of action and of course classic MacGyverisms! A triumphant return for MacGyver to television!

I'm actually watching this right now. It's on BBC1 at lunchtime on a Sunday, and it is ideal fair for a lazy Sunday afternoon. Forget the comparisons to India Jones - it's a TV movie, it isn't supposed to be oscar quality, or even quality that you'd pay money for. If you liked MacGyver at all, you'll know what to expect, and you'll like this. Nuff said.