We're supposed to buy into the love between the main character, Sam, and his girl. It's the thing that should make us care about what happens to Sam. Yet there's about much love between then as between a door knob and a lamp post. I fear the producers sacrificed love for diversity. I'm glad all the cast got jobs and made money, but come on, man, chemistry between the main characters (all the characters) should be the soul of any movie. Quantum Leap has very little which gives it a lot of fluffy action and little substance. In addition I found the plot somewhat interesting, jumping between time periods, Sam losing his memory, etc. But I also found it confusing, which I suppose is to be expected in any time travel movie. But in Quantum Leap it seemed the confusion mostly came from a script that was trying to force action for, again, lack of chemistry.
Review of July 13th, 1985
