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Battlestar Galactica - Razor (Unrated Extended Edition) | 
 enlarge | Actor: Edward James Olmos
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Format: Ac-3, Animated, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 101
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: MCAD61101855D
UPC: 025195015059
EAN: 0025195015059
ASIN: B000V5IP6K
Theatrical Release Date: November 24, 2007
Release Date: December 4, 2007
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Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 01/27/2009
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Battlestar Galactica: Razor was an oasis for BSG fans--when the double-length episode aired in November 2007, it was the only new material broadcast during the 12-month gap between seasons 3 and 4. But although it sets up some events in season 4, chronologically Razor is a prequel taking place within season 2, when Galactica had unexpectedly met up with a fellow Battlestar, Pegasus. The central character is new, Kendra Shaw (Stephanie Jacobsen), who becomes the XO after Lee Adama (Jamie Bamber) takes command of the Pegasus. Shaw's promotion is controversial among Starbuck (Katee Sackhoff) and others because Shaw learned the trade under the previous commander of the Pegasus, Admiral Cain (Michelle Forbes), who lived by her own wartime rules. The central conflict in Razor involves the Pegasus trying to rescue a Raptor crew from the Cylons. During the mission Shaw flashes back to 10 months earlier, and her experiences in the immediate aftermath of the Cylons' wipeout of Caprica influence how she handles this mission and its implications of a new Cylon-human hybrid. Razor is a riveting adventure, full of the top writing, great acting, and dark end-of-humanity vision that makes Battlestar Galactica the best show on television (that is, when it's actually on). Fans will also enjoy the appearance of old-school Cylons, and the revelation that Gaius is not the only one who fell for the wiles of Number 6 (Tricia Helfer).
The unrated and extended DVD runs 103 minutes, about 16 minutes longer than the Sci-Fi Channel broadcast. There's a brief bit of extra gore from Admiral Cain, and young William "Husker" Adama's (Nico Cortez, nicely channeling Edward James Olmos) mission in the last days of the first Cylon war is now 10 minutes instead of 5, including a spectacular aerial battle. In another new sequence, at the moment when Cain tells Shaw "Sometimes we have to leave people behind so that we can go on," there's a flashback to Cain's experiences in the first Cylon war. Among the bonus features is the complete 19-minute minisode version of Husker's Cylon encounter (previously viewable on Sci-Fi Channel's website) and two deleted scenes. Featurettes include "The Look of Battlestar Galactica" and "My Favorite Episode So Far" ("33" gets a lot of mentions from the cast and crew), and there are a trailer and 2.5-minute "sneak peek" at season 4 (mostly interviewing people who don't know what's going to happen, though Tricia Helfer mentions a new version of herself). In a commentary track for the extended edition, executive producer Ronald D. Moore and writer Michael Taylor discuss how the episode came together (they refer to Razor as episodes as 1-2 of season 4) amid some serious restructuring and bits of trivia, such as how they cast Stephanie Jacobsen in the pivotal role even though she had never watched the show. --David Horiuchi
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Dark, disturbing, powerful January 1, 2009
Razor has a complex cast and story. An aspiring political heiress thrust into a mortal struggle she has trained for, but is not prepared for is the central character. Her flashbacks to the begining of the war between humans and cylons and her experiences as a junior officer aboard a ship commanded by an obsessed admiral form about half the story. Admiral Adama runs into things from his past, and must resolve the threat they represent, so he too has some of his history expanded on. The final operation to overcome this threat is audacious and places the most volitile personalities along side each other.
This movie addresses a lot of dark issues of survival, motivations, and gives greater depth to many of the characters in the series. And despite the disturbing nature of many of the themes and scenes, it is powerful and darkly facinating.
Enjoyable isn't the right word, but it is compelling.
E.M. Van Court
Mean women December 29, 2008
The current TV serial Battlestar Galactica is an innovative and groundbreaking sci-fi serial on many fronts and for many reasons. Probably the biggest reason is the emphasis on female characters. Probably no other sci-fi or fantasy franchise (TV or big-screen) places such large emphasis on its female characters. This made-for-DVD movie offshoot from the TV series exemplifies this emphasis on the female characters with more gusto than probably any of the regular episodes. This movie is actually a series of flashbacks interspersed within the present time frame; the latter being the period right after Admiral Cain is shot, and right before Baltar's election to the presidency. The show follows four female leads; Admiral Cain of the Battlestar Pegasus, one of her officers, Kendra Shaw, Starbuck, and the Model Six cylon that operated on Pegasus. There are also cameo appearances by Boomer and President Roslin, two other key female characters from the TV series. Between the six of them, we have a whole gamut of emotions, roles, and relations. First is the romance and then bitter fallout between Model Six and Admiral Cain. This runs in parallel with Cain's condenscension towards Kendra. This is followed up by the personal hatred and professional rivalry of Kendra Shaw and Starbuck. In the background is Roslin's distrust of Admiral Cain. In fact, the only male character with any role in the movie is Adama's flashback to the last days of the first Ceylon war. This is truly a groundbreaking sci-fi movie. All told, quite a good movie. Lots of drama, lots of action and some surprises too.
 The only one of the new series to equal the original. December 14, 2008
Absolutely breathtaking! When I first saw this I was amazed. "Wow!" I thought to myself. I have always liked the new series, but I was still hung-up on the old series, and still am. But this is the one that turely equals the spirit of battlestar galactica. Not only do we get an action-packed story, but some insites into the first Cylon war, some history on Adama and Cain's past, but also you get a real fill of Apollo's command abilities as he takes over command of the pegasus. Apart from a few scenes here and there, you never really got a good episode that turely tells you how good of a commander he was. Until now. Plus the new character, Kendra Shaw, was an amazing one as well. You also get to see a couple of old fascine Cylons. The new Cylons are better, but it's nice for a fan of the old series like me to see the old ones back again. Great!!!
 Avoid this episode December 4, 2008
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This was a very upsetting episode because it changes the main characters into complete creeps. The actors do not act consistent with their characters that have been built up over the preceding three seasons. In Razor they are now shown to be completely amoral and criminal!
In particular Adama, who is a man that has garnered respect for his fair mindedness over the previous seasons, is now defending the murder of citizens. And we seem to be expected to be sympathetic to the woman who is involved in the murders of 20-30 innocent men women and children, because she is haunted by what she'd done. I'd have been more impressed if she and the other culprits were put up against the wall and shot. Also, the producers/directors have no concept of what makes a good commander. If in real life a commander turned a blind eye to his officers and troops shooting innocent citizens, he'd lose all respect and control of his troops (particularly as many of them have family and lovers amongst the people). Plus in real life, the rest of the fleet would have rebelled as a result of these murders as they'd be fearing they were next and could not trust the military to act rationally and protect them. They'd form their own partisan group and fight for freedom and justice. Instead, the rest of the fleet took no action against these atrocities. What rubbish! Also, why is the military continuing on if not to make a home world for the people, not just for the military. And how does shooting the people assist that goal.
The portraying of the criminal and evil behaviour of these characters as being acceptable is quite disgusting.
The show claims to be an adult show, but to me it's a show that primarily targets 14 year olds, beause many of them are still defining their own morality, and then adds disturbing scenarios and images in an attempt to appear adult.
It's a very disappointing episode. If you haven't yet purchased it, my advice is to pass this episode by and focus on the rest of the preceding three seasons. But if season four continues this amoral attitude, then it will be very disappointing.
Great to see more of Cain October 30, 2008
Razor is an interesting item. In essence there was a long gap between Battlestar Galactica season 3 and season 4. The people in charge of Battlestar Galactica literally said "let us make some sort of instant-to-DVD movie we can get the fans to buy. Hey, you writers, what can you write for us to sell?" The writers tossed around the idea and realized that we had seen little of the Pegasus battlestar. That ship shows up in the series and then is demolished. The writers thought it would be perfect to tell more about the Pegasus and also to bring back Admiral Cain who was played incredibly well by Michelle Forbes. So this was a perfect way to get more Admiral Cain time, to get some back story fleshed out and to give Battlestar Galactica fans a fix while they eagerly awaited Season 4 to begin.
On one hand it's easy to be cynical about a company saying "how can we create more things for fans to buy." On the other hand, if right now Peter Jackson said "let me make a 2 hour movie in the Lord of the Rings universe for fans to buy" I honestly wouldn't care WHAT aspect of Middle Earth he chose to cover. If he was bringing in my favorite actors, in my favorite world, to tell ANY story I would buy it and watch it repeatedly. So in the same sense if Razor brings us more acting time and storyline in Battlestar Galactica's world that can be seen pretty much as a good thing.
Interestingly, the story is really all about Kendra Shaw - played well by Australian Stephanie Jacobsen. Kendra is one of the ONLY characters on this show to speak with a "non-American accent" and it helps her to stand out. Kendra is a fresh officer coming on to help Cain when the Pegasus is initially attacked. The rest of the story is really all from Kendra's point of view - how Cain handles the issues that come up, how Kendra changes over time based on what she goes through. Certainly she runs into Apollo and Starbuck and others, but she is always the focus.
A lot of what went on in Season 3 is now explained with Razor, i.e. you understand characters' motivations. That being said, I think they try a little TOO hard to "justify" decisions that people made which simply were not the right ones. They do show that certain characters had mixed feelings about what they did, but it would have been nice if they went into that more rather than just hinting at "oh person X had a tummy ache sometimes when they thought about having wreaked genocide down onto an entire planet". I've of course changed the situation for spoiler reasons :)
There are certain key issues I have with this episode but that would get into spoiler area, so I'll keep those all separate in my longer review. I know Amazon is very sensitive about spoilers anywhere in their site area.
It is definitely important to see the "long and short" version on this DVD as well as the commentary track. If you've only seen the broadcast short version you've missed out on a lot of the story. Even watching the long version still leaves some areas murky - areas that start to make sense when you hear the commentary track.
Definitely a must-watch before season 4 comes around since it informs what they are going to do in season 4.
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