Product Details

• Actors: Michael Pare, Philip Michael Thomas
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Mti Home Video
• DVD Release Date: November 2, 2004
• Run Time: 94 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00031TX90
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #265,225 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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FATE - DVD Movie

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Fate of actors!, November 29, 2004

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Don D. Basina (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fate (DVD)

What do you do with once popular actors who fell on hard times? Answer. Put them in a B movie.
Fate is so awful I can barely rate it with one star. I ask myself; "How could I watch this movie completely!" While scanning the movie rack I recognized the names of the main characters: Michael Pare and Phillip Michael Thomas of Miami Vice fame. Not bad actors in their time. How bad could this movie be? The cover of the DVD looked very convincing with its nice packaging and explanation of the plot, so I rented it. What a mistake that was.

The plot follows these two detectives (Pare and Tubbs) team up to track a serial killer. The serial killer is played by Lee Majors (Six Million Dollar Man) and known from the beginning of the film. I guess the audience is supposed to figure out why he is killing all of these people. The scriptwriter should be given his walking papers after this script. I should give it away to save you some time, should you ignore this review.

The audio and dialogue is really, really, bad. The soundman was missing in action during filming. I had to laugh at times at the mistimed sound tracks. (Think Ashlee Simpson's performance on SNL!) Hopefully the director Ace Cruz can learn from his mistakes.

Forget this DVD and think about all of the actors looking for work. They must make a living too.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fate, May 12, 2008

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R. Hicks - See all my reviews
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In my opinion I do not see why this movie has gotten such a bad rating for.Although I did not like the nudity. That is the only bad thing i can say about this movie. Michael Pare' whom I adore was great in this .HE is a superb actor.THe story plot wwas good.Lee Majors and Philip Michael Thomas also did a good acting job. me for one really liked this.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars 6 MILLION DOLLAR MAN GOES BANKRUPT!!!, March 3, 2005

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Michael Butts (Berkeley Springs, WV USA) - See all my reviews
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Poor Lee Majors...after seeing him in this really bad movie, one can hardly believe he's the SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN and T.J. HOOKER. Ditto to Phillip Michael Thomas who virtually disappeared off the cinematic earth after MIAMI VICE left the t.v. waves. As for Michael Pare' (no one has ever accused him of being an actor), he just wallows in his own ineptitude. FATE had some potential, but it's poorly conceived and illogical script shanghais any possibility of coherence or sense. Where's Majors' wife during all this? Why doesn't one of the lead characters recognize his own "closeness" to the case? Why is the soundtrack so loud that when the girls are imprisoned in the mine, you can't even understand a word they are saying? And did two actresses play the same character? And what is it with the "history" between Pare and Thomas' characters? When it's explained, it makes little or any sense.
Shot on a shoestring somewhere in Georgia, FATE is one of those direct to video releases that sounds better on the box than it actually is. So beware! You might meet your FATE if you buy this one!!