Dimension 5

WOW! Jeffrey Hunter( husband of Beautiful Barbara Rush) really rocks in this thrilling -edge-of-your-seat time travel thriller!! With the very sexy Fra ce Nuyen & Linda Ho who could not love this seldom seen gem!! Also stars James Bond mortal enemy, Harold Sakata who is truely a force to be Reckon with! Jeffrey Hunter wears this incredible time travel belt,something every secret agent should have!! Now on BLU RAY, the picture is stunning as are the women who swoon to Mr. HUNTER!! France Nuyen is absolutely stunning in her role as secret Agent Supreme and very seductive as well. Yes this movie rocks with excitement, beautiful locations and a stellar cast! Now on Blu Ray for your viewing enjoyment! NOT to be missed!!!

In science fiction there is a sub-genre known as the "super science story", wherein new technology appears that fundamentally changes how the world works. In this movie, spy characters are given devices that allow them to instantaneously travel anywhere in the world and even to any moment in time! Just thinking of the possibilities of such power as applied to the spy game is dizziness-inducing, and yet in this movie the devices simply function as a get out of jail free card for whenever the script gets into a tough corner. The fact that Donald Woods and Jeffery Hunter, the supposed big brains in America's top spy agency have not (or cannot) use such tech to jam up her Cold War enemies on an epic scale shows just how little thought went into this aspect of the story. The movie plays like an episode of To Catch a Thief but with a cheat code. One suspects that the creators wanted a gimmick to distinguish themselves from the tidal wave of James Bond knock-offs that followed after Goldfinger, but lacked the courage to take this key story device to its logical end point. As if they wanted to be different, but not that different. There is a short scene in the early part of the film in which Jeffery Hunter tests the device by carrying out a series of re-does to repair a botched mission, yet fails to take a similar approach to the main mission! The picture has a deus ex machina device on tap but wants to pretend it does not, not really... This is the key failing of the film, and it dwarfs all other considerations. Jeffery Hunter and France Nguyen make an attractive pair of principals, and their scripted banter, while nothing special, passes the time acceptably; the production values seem adequate, albeit well below the Goldfinger standard; the stakes are high, with the main story concerned with thwarting a nuclear detonation within Los Angeles. Okay, supposed super spy Hunter has to be bailed out multiple times by junior partner Nguyen, which makes him look like a bit of a boob, but slightly different handling could have turned this into a fun running gag. There are elements here to like. And none of that matters, since the viewer has a leisurely 95 or so minutes between the credit sequences to contemplate just what a single field agent with TIME TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY could do! Looting every secret file in Moscow and Beijing would be child's play. Mike Hammer in Complex 90, if given such gadgetry, would have ended the Cold War in about three days. Such a ridiculously potent story device either has to be employed fully, which would radically alter the rules of the spy game (and thus, the spy thriller) or left out. Using it by half measures makes the characters seem not very clever or competent, and the writers seem unimaginative and cowardly. The viewer is left with the inescapable feeling that a better thought out version of this idea should be possible. But what we get here just is not it. What a pity.

Directed by Franklin Adreon (who also directed the similar Cyborg 2087) and written by Arthur C. Pierce, Dimension 5 is about time-traveling secret agents Justin Power (Jeffrey Hunter) from Espionage, Inc and Ki Ti Tsu (France Nuyen). It was going to be a TV movie but ended up being released to theaters. Together, the two agents battle an Asian crime ring, Dragon, led by crime lord Big Buddha (Harold Sakata), who will destroy Los Angeles if the U. S. doesn't leave Vietnam. However, Power is able to preview time, which allows him to keep people safe from Dragon's killers. Kitty has her own reasons for wanting to battle Big Buddha, as he was the executioner during the Nanking Massacre who killed her parents. The bad guy plans on building a nuclear bomb in the U. S. by placing it inside owl-shaped incense burners and Christmas decorations. Nuyen is great in this, but man, Jeffrey Hunter was sleeping or so it seemed. Maybe he could use that time travel to get a few extra hours of nap before coming back and being the superspy in this movie.

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Well, it's not as stupid as most of the people wrote among those who signed reviews here on IMDb. Seen by me on YouTube today February 23, 2023, a very clear version for the age of the film. The film has a well-organized action, not like many other films of the same bill from the same period. I say that the director Franklin Adreon did a very good job, it is filmed intelligently, even spectacularly at times (the car chase at the beginning of the film, the aerial filming from the helicopter). And, the most precious thing, the performance of the actress France Nuyen, who is young, very beautiful, full of charm, her character, Kitty Tsu, is the most interesting and successful. Jeffrey Hunter is a mediocre actor, nothing exceptional about him, but here he is quite decent. Harold Sakata, as a villain immobilized in a wheelchair, does a much superior and more credible role than the one he did in the movie "Goldfinger" from the James Bond series. Once again, Frances Nuyen's delicious performance makes the film worth watching.

Belonging to that period after China successfully tested it's first atomic bomb on 16 October 1964 and diverted the West's attention from the Russkies to the menace posed by Red China; with the result that thirty years before Michelle Yeoh in 'Tomorrow Never Dies', special agent Justin Power (sound familiar?) is assisted by resourceful Asian babe France Nuyen in mopping up a gang of sinister orientals led by a wheelchaired Oddjob (Harold Sakata, plainly dubbed) planning a Christmas surprise for Los Angeles. The goodies are equipped with cool gadgets around their waists like Willy McBean's Magic Machine (a bit like the device later employed in Michael Crichton's 'Looker') that enable them to run rings round the bad guys; although their training evidently didn't extend to anticipating the most intelligent use of the enormous tactical advantage this gives them in the field.

30% science fiction film, 70% 007-ish film. The mix of genres (sci-fi and spy stuff) is generally regarded as the main issue with this flick. The film's title sounds spacey, the intro is spacey, but then it jumps into James Bond ground for about 60 minutes! Adding to the confusion, today star Jeffery Hunter is mainly known (by me) as the lead actor in the first Star Trek pilot, so seeing him in this, with that sci-fi start to D5 - in the early stages some viewers are in a fantasy zone right from the word go! This is sounding like a negative review so I will move on - the flick is okay! But you must see the newly remastered wide screen print. There are things to look at (nice cars, nice sets, nice girls) and these all require a nice clean print - not that faded copy that was doing the rounds for decades. The humour sometimes seems a bit forced at times, they make light conversation after just discovering LA is about to be bombed off the planet! This review is probably sending out mixed signals, but despite the endless flaws in D5 - I found it okay.

Secret agent Justin Power is tracking down a dastardly plot by a secret organisation to explode a nuclear device somewhere in the USA. He is helped by a gorgeous exotic mysterious woman and a device which can move him a short time forwards or backwards in time. The potential in this conventional spy story derives entirely from the time-hopping device, which is both underused and unimaginatively used. The rest of it is very much typical of TV series of the time (indeed, it was originally intended for TV) in terms of production values, excepting only its widescreen presentation. Direction is dull and Jeffrey Hunter, as Power, does not make a thrilling protagonist. France Nuyen is an attractive mystery woman, but Harold "Oddjob" Sakata shows why he never had a great big screen career after Goldfinger. Verdict: feeble. However, it is on Youtube if you're interested.

This might be the worst spy movie I ever saw ( bad spoofs like 'Casino Royale' included). Looking at Linda Ho and seeing what she does at the end of the movie, is the only reason to watch. France Nuyen ( Kitty) is nothing to look at ( Linda Ho and the ladies at the spy agency were a lot hotter). The name of Justin Power ( Jeffrey Hunter) may have been an inspiration for Mike Myers Austin Powers ( substitute the A for the J in Justin and add an S to the end of Power and you get Austin Powers). However, Power is so lightweight, he makes Austin Powers look like George Smiley from 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.' ( not to mention no women coming close to Elizabeth Hurley appear in tbe movie).Did I forget to add that the stupid gadget that changes time is low tech and does nothing for the movie. The best thing you can do is watch on YouTube and skip every scene not featuring Linda Ho. This is an awful movie that deserves just one star. That for Linda Ho.

Saw this stinker in the cinema as a kid ... Couldn't remember a thing about it apart from Harold Sakata who played Oddjob in Goldfinger was in it ... Oh and the poster ... Managed to watch ten minutes of my life on this 3rd rate, mishmash of sixties spy film cliches wrapped up in a bad instalment of The Man from Uncle and gave up before any sign of Oddjob :( ... It was just too boring to waste any time on ... Much the same as I thought as a child 50 years ago ... Still remember Mr Sakata and the poster though