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After a year as civilian, old Nash is back in SFPD's SIU to investigate a series of "unrelated" murders.After a year as civilian, old Nash is back in SFPD's SIU to investigate a series of "unrelated" murders.After a year as civilian, old Nash is back in SFPD's SIU to investigate a series of "unrelated" murders.
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Don't they have Continuity people for these projects?
The timeline was totally screwed up. They never established how long it was after the end of the series, which in actual time was 20 years. They had Nash and Joe being partners 25 years, which they were during the run of series. They ignored that Nash was a Captain and Joe was a Lieutenant at end of series, so why is he taking orders from another Captain? If Nash was demoted he would've walked. Nash knew the Captain in the movie 30 years, yet that was from when she and Cassidy were in Police Academy together, which would've been long before the series. Towards end Joe is talking about going on a date. Did Inger pass, or were her and Joe divorced? Also didn't care for gratuitous destruction of the 'Cuda. Would expect it not to have lasted 50 years. When it was a car with daily wear and tear
For the few positives, they did mention what Cassidy was up to, being in Army Intelligence. Nash's flirtation with the Police Dept. Shrink ( Would be curious to know if Nash now had more ex-wives than NCIS's Jethro Gibbs?). Butting heads with Steven Colton, the young stick up his ass know it all.
What they should have done was have Nash and Joe retired, still running the Bridges and Dominguez Detective Agency and being Consultants to the SFPD. Looks like Nash won't return as a series again, as was hoped for. Maybe someone will reboot Spenser For Hire and get it right.
The timeline was totally screwed up. They never established how long it was after the end of the series, which in actual time was 20 years. They had Nash and Joe being partners 25 years, which they were during the run of series. They ignored that Nash was a Captain and Joe was a Lieutenant at end of series, so why is he taking orders from another Captain? If Nash was demoted he would've walked. Nash knew the Captain in the movie 30 years, yet that was from when she and Cassidy were in Police Academy together, which would've been long before the series. Towards end Joe is talking about going on a date. Did Inger pass, or were her and Joe divorced? Also didn't care for gratuitous destruction of the 'Cuda. Would expect it not to have lasted 50 years. When it was a car with daily wear and tear
For the few positives, they did mention what Cassidy was up to, being in Army Intelligence. Nash's flirtation with the Police Dept. Shrink ( Would be curious to know if Nash now had more ex-wives than NCIS's Jethro Gibbs?). Butting heads with Steven Colton, the young stick up his ass know it all.
What they should have done was have Nash and Joe retired, still running the Bridges and Dominguez Detective Agency and being Consultants to the SFPD. Looks like Nash won't return as a series again, as was hoped for. Maybe someone will reboot Spenser For Hire and get it right.
... since I am one. And, believe it or not, all of us started out as children. Plus, if anyone has earned the right to take back this role, even if only for a sparkly 90 minutes, it would be Johnson. Who practically invented a character we now take for granted in series after series, and movie after movie. (Just like 86 year old Bob Joyce, who astonishingly still has most of his vocal range, has earned the right to sing Elvis songs whenever he darn well wishes). Viewers hoping for Citizen Kane will be disappointed. Fans looking for solid nostalgia will love this film. To date, however, the best recycling of once top-tier talent remains Jackie Chan's The Foreigner (2017). A truly astonishing film.
It's standard TV fare - felt just like an NB episode. It's always fun to see SF on TV because it's much cleaner than in real life. You definitely have to suspend belief - Cheech and Don are a lil too old and the attempts at trying to be up to date are definitely CBS quality. I wish there had been a Cassidy cameo and Nash would have been a lot more upset about the Cuda getting destroyed. All in all, fun for fan of the orig series like me😄😄😄
Yes, sure there are plot holes galore, but my issue is that most could've easily been avoided. Maybe it was intentional, to follow the style of the original series, but I wish they had improved that element, because the rest of the film was more entertaining than expected. Cheech seemed high pretty much the entire film, and I actually didn't mind lol. His chemistry with Johnson - who basically carried the entire film with his stand-out performance, worked well. I'd say all the attempts at humor couldn't have been more cheesier, but I still found myself smiling ear to ear throughout the entire film. Directing was spot on, and the stories main plot was actually a good idea. The 82 min runtime and decent pacing flew by, that I actually wanted more. I do hope they reboot at least another few sequels from past popular episodes. Loved the SF landscape and muscle cars. The rest of the casting and performances were entertaining - cheese and all, especially newb actress Angela Ko who performed like a seasoned actor. We need to see more of Donny, he's aged well, and his screen presence is still strong. If you're a fan of the series - or not, this is still a fun and entertaining watch. It's a 7/10 from me.
And still makes the wheel run and the smile come. Dum johnson isnt so dum after all, acting quite good specially in the latterhalf of the film, and cheech is the god of old laid out cops as us seniors remembers from back then.
Its a tv movie with some abrupt stops (commercial breaks) that destroys the rythm a bit, its a nanotech detective mystery to be solved, with dead bodies killed by the smallest ever lethal weapons, nanobots. A bit complex maybe, but i can calm everybody down, it a teany weany mainy moe story with crooks and eastern hemispherical hudlums , mma cages and chemistry vs. Sanfransicanian on and of coppers doing their deeds for a better world for all of us.
So let yourself be entertained, at a tv-movie standard by el manno of men that still knows their acts. A should see film of nostalgic reasons thinks the grumpy old man.
Its a tv movie with some abrupt stops (commercial breaks) that destroys the rythm a bit, its a nanotech detective mystery to be solved, with dead bodies killed by the smallest ever lethal weapons, nanobots. A bit complex maybe, but i can calm everybody down, it a teany weany mainy moe story with crooks and eastern hemispherical hudlums , mma cages and chemistry vs. Sanfransicanian on and of coppers doing their deeds for a better world for all of us.
So let yourself be entertained, at a tv-movie standard by el manno of men that still knows their acts. A should see film of nostalgic reasons thinks the grumpy old man.
Did you know
- TriviaPilot for a potential revival of the television series.
- ConnectionsSpin-off from Nash Bridges (1996)
- SoundtracksMagic in the Moonlight
Written by Joe Lervold and Bill Ruha
Performed by The Joel Evans Quartet feat. Bill Ruha, vocal.
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