A review by kmccubbin
Doctor Who: Red Dawn by Justin Richards
2.0
Whoo-boy. There is simply no good reason that this should be as bad as it is. You have solid performances from Fifth Doctor Peter Davison and Peri (Nicola Bryant, who finally seems to be nailing that American accent after a quarter century) and a classic bad guy with depth written into them conceptually. (See, from TV, The Ice Warriors , The Seeds of Death and The Curse of Peladon .) How could that NOT work?
Nary a twist to rear it's pretty little head, this is such a by the numbers "evil corporation puts innocent lives at jeopardy while the Ice Warriors act... well, kind of a lot like Klingons" as to be predictable almost from word one. (Ok, I know that's not really a stereotypical genre, per-se, but you know what I mean.) It's endless quibbling and people acting like they had somehow actually fooled you into not knowing that Snidely Whiplash thing they were doing was evil.
Anyway, the leads and the melancholy conclusion to Lord Zzaal's story keep this a bit above the trash heap, but not much.
Nary a twist to rear it's pretty little head, this is such a by the numbers "evil corporation puts innocent lives at jeopardy while the Ice Warriors act... well, kind of a lot like Klingons" as to be predictable almost from word one. (Ok, I know that's not really a stereotypical genre, per-se, but you know what I mean.) It's endless quibbling and people acting like they had somehow actually fooled you into not knowing that Snidely Whiplash thing they were doing was evil.
Anyway, the leads and the melancholy conclusion to Lord Zzaal's story keep this a bit above the trash heap, but not much.