Trail to Doomsday

Season 8, Episode 2, Aired

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In London, when MacGyver's friend Paul Moran is killed along with his daughter Elise, he sets out to rescue the daughter and find the killers, uncovering a black market weapons ring in the process.
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  • MacGyver: Trail To Doomsday, was the last in the MacGyver series. Trail To Doomsday is not a part of the regular TV series, and like MacGyver: Lost Treasure Of Atlantis, MacGyver used everytything and anything like he did in the origional TV series. Thimoreless

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    By DoctorWho44, Apr 22, 2011
    is very cool for many reasons. For one, MacGyver can fix anything and everything. MacGyver uses his wits and destroys the nuclear terriosts plans. MacGyver is seen at the end talking to his friend. MacGyver wins agian. MacGyver talks about his friend's death at the end of the movie. He wonders if he could have done things differently had he arrived in England earlier. With the bad guys in jail, it is time to say goodbye to MacGyver. At the end of the movie, MacGyver says that he was glad to help in England. All is well and MacGyver is seen standing at the end of the movie, having won and capturing the bad guys.moreless

  • A disastrous effort that had virtually nothing going for it and everything going against it.

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    By mark_28, Apr 22, 2011
    I put my neck on the line back in 11th grade when I strongly recommended this MacGyver telefilm to skeptical friends in the week leading up to its airing. The previews didn't make it look like one of the best MacGyver adventures of all-time, but how could I have possibly imagined how disastrously bad it would end up being. The best part of the entire two hours was the British instrumental music that laced the opening scene as MacGyver journeyed the cities and countryside of England in a red sports car. From there, a film that started out so-so with the terrorist attack at the Moran mansion would grow steadily worse with each passing segment. MacGyver's infiltration into the seedy underbelly of London's organized crime apparatus was poorly done, particularly with the dreary and incomprehensible scenes in the sewer. Natalia's character was poorly drawn from the get-go, with the ultimate revelation of her identity (a Communist patriot attempting to reverse the coup that destroyed the former Soviet Union) being eye-rollingly preposterous.

    With each commercial break, I kept telling myself it was gonna get better.....it had to. But each scene disappointing, ranging from the uninspired and unimaginative subway chase scene to the boring and overly dark sewer scenes to the 5-10 minutes wasted showing MacGyver turning corner after corner at Frederick's castle/nuclear plant before climbing inside and discovering the magnitude of the subterfuge. It wasn't until the last 20 minutes that the film officially transitioned from boring to horrendous with idiotic dialogue ("Before you kill me, Natalia, can I just tell you that you're a big phony?") and the aimless, meandering narrative in which MacGyver randomly flipped switches to shut down the nuclear lab...and then just happened to find a tennis racket with which he defused the armed nuclear bomb. When MacGyver punches out Natalia after she arms the bomb, I was half hoping somebody else would punch MacGyver out to put him and this terrible film out of their misery. Even the dark production values seemed hammy in the sewer scenes where the viewer could barely see what was going on, and the British-centric feel of the production that partially impaired "The Lost Treasure of Atlantis" was even more annoyingly omnipresent in "Trail to Doomsday". Never again was I able to recommend a TV show/movie to my friends after this embarrassment of a film. There were only four MacGyver outings I rate as complete howlers. This was one of them.

    Thankfully, few people were watching. The Thanksgiving night time slot was a step up from the Saturday night slot given to "Lost Treasure of Atlantis", but even fewer people tuned in. The film got an 8.9 rating, small enough that not a peep was heard from ABC about ordering more MacGyver films. If this movie was really the best they could do, that's probably for the best. What a sour note to end the MacGyver legacy.moreless
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    • Paul: So, you like the car I had waiting for you? MacGyver: Well, it's, uh, red, but very nice, thanks. Paul: Well, at least you didn't roll it this time. MacGyver: It's early.

    • Paul: MacGyver and I spent the 70s brainstorming solutions to save the world. Natalia: What a shame they didn't work. MacGyver: We're still trying.

    • MacGyver: (to Natalia) All right, look, you move like a cat, you handle a gun like a pro, and you've got a poison cartridge pen in your purse. Is there anything you want to tell me about your 'unique qualifications'?

    • Tony: If you don't wear a wire, we'll have no way of knowing if anything goes wrong. MacGyver: I don't like wires. If something does go wrong, they're impossible to explain.

    • Natalia: You are very stubborn. MacGyver: Really? Natalia: It's part of your charm.

    • Natalia: You don't understand; you could never understand. No one's ever stolen your government, discarded your beliefs, left your people without dignity, with nothing.

    • Elise: My father cared so much for this planet. He just wanted to do some good. MacGyver: He did. The world's a safer place because of Paul. Elise: Maybe. But my father—your friend—he's gone. MacGyver: Then I guess it's up to us.

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    • The German title is "Endstation Hölle", meaning "Last Stop: Hell". The French title is "Le chemin de l'enfer", meaning "The Path to Hell". The Italian title is "Il giorno del giudizio", meaning "Judgment Day".

    • This is the second of the two MacGyver television movies, and it is not part of the television series. It runs 1:32 without commercials.

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