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Steineded How sad is this?

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

dwoo522@nyc.rr.com The other reviews need to keep in mind that this was pilot. It is a far different premise from Star Trek. It was the first shot at a new show for Roddenberry after Star Trek. This does not include pilot that was also a Star Trek episode, Assignment Earth. Genesis II is told from the point of view a 20th century scientist living in post apocalyptic world. The show had potential for many themes that also ran through Star Trek that Roddenberry was interested in.The networks liked it enough to make a second version called Planet Earth with John Saxon taking the lead roll from Alex Cord. It is too bad that neither show got picked up.

ccmiller1492 Genesis II is stunning sci-fi with an absorbing dilemma. A scientist (Alex Cord) volunteers for a suspended animation experiment, and due to an earthquake is buried. When he is finally excavated it is over 200 years in the future. He finds himself with the choice of joining one of the two factions left on future earth after nuclear war, both factions rather authoritarian in different ways. In ignorance, he chooses the wrong (worst) one and then has to figure out how to extricate himself and return to the original faction which found him (PAX). Mariette Hartley is wonderful as the manipulative beautiful mutant who cozens Dylan Hunt (Alex Cord) into joining the Terraneans. Cord makes a terrific hero, note particularly the scene of his defiance when commanded to repair the Terranean nuclear generator when he is tortured with a "stem", the Terranean pain-inducing taser. The contrast between the two factions is fascinating, with Dylan caught on the horns of a dilemma. Unlike most other stories of this kind, there is no way for Dylan to return to his past, he must live in his present on the best terms he can make.

stealthman I enjoyed this movie. Alex Cord and Mariette Hartley were rather good. The underground people trying to avoid capture, and fight for their freedom, were quite believable. The mutant people with the stun sticks, were wickedly tyrannical. *************************Spoiler************************************ The exchange between Dylan Hunt and Primus, is quite remarkable. (he took lives destroying the old missile silo). And discussing the unisex discipline, with the underground women, was amusing. While this was not an Oscar winner, I thought it was pretty good, for a TV movie. I also thought Ted Cassidy, was good in this. This would have made a good movie, or mini-series.

Stefan Kahrs In case you're wondering: this is not a sequel to Genesis I, it is about the re-birth of life and human civilisation after the age of technology collapsed. Watching this, it was never entirely clear to me how seriously the film was taking itself. Some ideas were genuinely wacky, for example that Sigmund Freud was revered as a saint. There were moments when I wanted to smack the scriptwriter right in the face, e.g. when a woman calms her children with "It's only the wind!" while this wind was actually the shockwave of a nuclear explosion.Without giving too much away: the ending has surprising similarities in structure and motives to endings of many classic westerns, e.g. in the way the boy doesn't get the girl or the problem of the former 'gunfighter' finally joining a peaceful society, a society he helped preserving.