Doctor Who (1996)

Fantastic!

Best movie ever!

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

I don't think I had ever even heard of "Doctor Who" before going on the Internet and now it's everywhere. Last time I checked, it was even the most trope overdosed franchise ever made on TVTropes. It's a shame that unlike other immensely popular franchises like "Star Wars" and "Star Trek", it has yet to come up with a great movie. It was still nice to watch a movie based on one of the most popular things ever made, like ever. I think overall, it's even bigger than "Star Wars"! I have seen at least two episodes of the show, so I recall the tone. This was just an okay movie with nothing really good or bad about it.It annoys me how people do nothing but complain about "The Phantom Menace" when you have one of the biggest things ever made that has never had a single movie with a higher score on this website than that movie! I know "Doctor Who" didn't start off as a movie series, but there should be more people constantly complaining about never having a genuinely good movie made of it. I remember how these are the same effects from the TV show. I wonder if J. J. Abrams could make a great version of this beloved franchise? Hey, you got Alex Hirsch working on a Pokémon movie. Yeah, look that up seriously.This movie's plot is pretty basic with the Doctor time traveling to December 31st, 1999 to stop an evil plan that the Master will carry out on the turn of the Millennium. Forgive me if I get some facts wrong as I am not a fan of the show, but given the sheer number of times I've heard this show being referenced, I should at least get some stuff right. It mostly plays like a long episode of the TV show and a mediocre one at that. It just didn't have the feel of a feature length movie. That's not what a movie is supposed to feel like. In a weird way, I would recommend this movie even though it's just okay. People should be introduced to be one of the biggest things of all time in a format as easy as watching a movie.It was interesting to hear the stuff I've read about on the Internet actually come to life! Yeah, I'd seen a bit of the show, but I liked seeing the stuff I heard so many people talk about actually on screen. I remember how the Doctor had two hearts and regenerated every time he died. The Master did the same thing. I guess a downside is that it didn't teach me too many new things about the series. I wished there would be more characters from the show, but then again, I'm not familiar with them. So for me, it was just an okay movie but I'm glad to learn more about something so popular. **1/2

I really struggle with this movie. Being traumatised as a 9 year old when the show was cancelled I can remember the sheer excitement at there being a movie. It starts off well enough, I really enjoyed Sylvester McCoy's appearance, at least he got a send off.Paul McGann made a really good Doctor, I feel sad for him that he wasn't given a true crack of the whip, he showed us in The Night of the Doctor what we'd missed all those years. He performs as well as can be expected. I even quite liked Grace (not the kissing bit!!)But, oh my days it's so tacky, Eric Roberts as the Master?? Seriously!! I don't know why they didn't hire Dom DeLuise and have him in drag, well they weren't that far off were they.The story itself isn't uninteresting, but gang crimes, guns etc it's not what this show was about, were they aiming this movie at the American market? The Doctor being half human? I should coco!!Overall it's watchable enough, at least they tried to get it to work, it's just a bit too cheesy and glitzy. 5/10

I'm watching this movie now and I'm so bored I'm writing the review before it's over.Dr. Who doesn't work when it takes itself seriously, when it limits itself to the realistic expectations of mainstream cinematic storytelling (whatever the genre). This is why the first season of the BBC reboot with Christopher Eccleston didn't work in my opinion. The actor always look annoyed that he wasn't in a Guy Ritchie shoot 'em up flick and the show's producers took their storytelling way too seriously. Eccleston may have been praised for his lock, stock, and two smoking barrels as the Doctor, but clearly the re-creators of the show realized that the Doctor's longevity was due to his and the show's free-ranging eccentricity, which is why subsequent seasons featured doctors with odd, but charming personalities in the tradition of Baker, Noughton, and that Sylvester guy, and plots like the one with David Tennant where he's stranded aboard an orbiting spaceship with the shape and name of the Titanic on Christmas eve--right before it runs into...what? why, the earth, of course! So this movie tries to take its plot seriously even though it doesn't really have a plot and leaves me so bored it was much more fun to write about the show than this movie, which has pretty much been well dissected by all the previous reviews. But, hey, lighten up about the kiss, folks.

America made Doctor Who. And it's bad. This is bad. It's horrible. I love Doctor Who, and have for a very long time. I watched this in 1996, as some kind of a pilot for Fox, and it stunk so bad. Where do I start, and how do I end? It's American made, to begin, so you know it will be bad because they are adapting a British production. So they insult it with American filmmaking. Asian gangs kill the Doctor? Please. Generic Asian actor saving him? Please. How is this story canon to the Doctor Who time line? Because it has Sylvester McCoy in it? I liked Paul McGann, a great actor from "Withnail & I." But lordy, using Eric Roberts to become the Master, yikes. And seeing the Doctor with a make-out scene. This is so American made, watered down to try and sell. Horrible. It's a painful excuse for a story. The ONLY good thing to come of this wretched lousy production (though, cool to see Will Sasso in it) is that it probably helped the 2005 revival of the show. But man, America really knows how to make bad, generic, bland TV. This is just CSI with science fiction in it. Avoid at all costs. This is not Doctor Who, this is bad Fox TV. I will never consider this canon.