First, the good sides: it's always fun to see Clyde Kusatsu's work, and an appearance by pre-Twin Peaks Joan Chen is also nice. But otherwise, this is on autopilot. The opening gambit with the "escape from a car about to be crushed" trick was already in 1985 an old story. Why did they have to make those opening gambit's anyway? It only brings to mind the forced "James Bond WITHOUT the license to kill" analogy. Well, on to the main plot: MacGyver goes to Burma, where conveniently EVERY native speaks English. The Bad Guy is your usual '80s Action Movie stock two-dimensional (one-dimensional, is, as mathematicians know, only theoretical!) cardboard cliché, spouting unimaginative dialogue and being stereotypically cruel. According to ancient cinema and TV traditions, he MUST die at the end and of course, this being "MacGyver", no GOOD characters can't kill him so he gets to experience what "live by the sword, die by the sword" means, literally. I found this hilarious cheating on the writer's part. It's just another variation of the clichéd tradition of the bad guy shooting himself with his own handgun while struggling with the good guy (here The Bad Guy is is trying to lunge at MacGyver with his thin blade only to trip over and to impale himself). The only interesting thing in this episode is that MacGyver's employer is the government, possibly military - but the writers have left it unclear whether he is a free agent or not.
Review of The Golden Triangle
