Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Joshua Lawrence Pike Sam Becket is working on a DoD funded project to time travel. If it worked it would send him back in time to inhabit the body of anyone, so long as it was within his own lifetime (so no going back before he was born). The project was being shut down, so he took a chance and used it on himself. It worked, everything but the part about being able to get him back when they wanted to. The show is about him leaping around time, inhabiting the bodies of various people from the 50's to the late seventies. They can talk to him through Al, a hologram of his friend in the future that only he could see. Each leap he had to fix something, then he would leap out (almost all the episodes are one leap).The show is a good example of using the vehicle of science fiction to tell very human stories. The things he fixed were often about changing people, or having someone not make a mistake that hurt them or others. For example in one he was sent back as a rich man's servant. The rich guy was foreclosing on a mission around Christmas time. His job was not the save the mission, his job was the get the rich guy to WANT to save it, to see that money was not everything. He was there to save the mans soul. What he was sent to do were often turning points of people's lives, trying to convince people to do right, but not forcing them to. It was thoughtful and insightful about things in ways that modern Hollywood isn't anymore.www.JoshuaLawrencePike.com

Maddyclassicfilms Created by Donald P.Bellisario(NCIS)Quantum Leap was one of the most popular TV series of the 90's and ran from 1989-1993. The series stars Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell.Quantum Leap is a time travel show that's got something for everyone,from humour, tears and action to clever special effects. Scientist Dr Sam Beckett(Scott Bakula)is the head of a top secret Government project called Quantum Leap.It is a time travel experiment conducted at a base in the desert,despite not being fully ready Sam decides to test it and so he steps into the energy chamber and vanishes. He finds himself trapped in the body of a test pilot in the 1950's.It's here that things get interesting because Dr.Beckett doesn't just journey back somewhere but leaps into a person and everyone of that time sees him as whoever he has leapt into.Each week Sam leaps into someone living between the early 50's and the late 80's and tries to put right whatever wrongs blighted their lives.He's not alone on this unique and strange journey,he's able to stay in contact with his own time through brainwave transmissions from his best friend(and the project observer)Admiral Al Calavicci(Dean Stockwell).Al is a former Navy officer and Vietnam POW,who loves women,cigars,loud shirts and fast cars.He can go where Sam goes in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear.Al is able to give Sam information on where and who he's leapt into courtesy of the projects super computer,Ziggy.Scott and Dean have a genuine chemistry which greatly adds to the depiction of the duo's friendship and many of the series most touching and funny moments are between these two.Interesting,funny and touching it's enough to make you want to begin your own leap through time right away.

Aaron1375 I caught this show well after its run was over. I think I caught most of the episodes on USA or some other cable channel. The premise of the show was that this guy randomly leaps from person to person throughout time. He basically is himself, but every person around him sees him as the person he has leaped into. The show was okay, was not a super fan, but I liked certain episodes a lot. Hated a couple too, it just really depended on where he was or what he had to do as he always seemed to have an objective in the time he went to. The show would try to get a bit cute near the end of its run as they introduced an enemy leaper and then the show would end with a very depressing final show that basically said Sam never got back home again. Did not care for that at all and the implications and such. Still, for most of the show it was funny and suspenseful watching him try to figure out what to do to find out what he had to do to make things right with the person that he was within. Scott Bakula did a good job in the lead role and Dean Stockwell was also good as a kind of guide for Sam as he was the one that tried to figure out what needed to be done in the time periods. Interesting show, that I thought was on a bit longer than it was.

Bolesroor I used to love "Quantum Leap." Scott Bakula was perfect as the earnest Sam, and Dean Stockwell was great as the crusty Al: their chemistry was made in heaven. The show, of course, is about a scientist who gets lost in time, leaping into the body of various people and striving "to put right what once went wrong." The weekly cliff-hangers were possibly the most brilliant in the history of television. I remember watching the show every Friday night and not being able to wait for the following week's show to see how Sam was going to possibly get out of another impossible scenario.As great as Quantum Leap was, the show hasn't aged well for me. Watching the episodes today I am struck by how PC the show is... just as political correctness was taking over American culture back then it is obvious- in retrospect- that the writers of the show were also in the grips of this sensitive liberal movement and allowed it to affect their work. Sam is always urging a woman to leave an oppressive man, always liberating a town with rock 'n roll, always protesting the war. In one episode he leaps into the body of a black man in 1955... his mission is to prevent an elderly white woman from dying, but that doesn't stop him from trying to single-handedly end racism in America even though he knows by the history books that segregation won't end for another decade... and that racism has yet to run its course TO THIS DAY. This was the kind of thing that seemed sweet back in 89... today it just seems naive.Some of the show is just as great as it was back then... the episode where Sam meets Al's wife is beautiful, the first encounter with the Evil Leaper is great... and the episode where Sam leaps back to his boyhood home is acted so well you will feel the nostalgia for this childhood that isn't even yours. "The Leap Home" also contains my favorite moment in the series: Sam, as himself in 1969, convincing his little sister that the Beatles are going to break up by playing her a song that has not yet been written: John Lennon's "Imagine." She knows her brother can't possibly see the future but the camera holds on her face as she listens to the tune... and the fact that she cannot deny what she is hearing causes her to shake her head and burst into tears... heartbreaking.To watch the show now is to go from leaps that are corny, sometimes maddening, to those that are brilliant or just fun... but even the bad ones are anchored by the magic of Bakula & Stockwell. As a kid I would have given the show an A+... but today I'd have to give it a B. Maybe I have gotten jaded... maybe times have just changed.