Basically this is a cheap and cheerful rip-off of The TV version of David McCallum's Invisible Man.
Gemini Man (why Gemini? it normally represents twins or space travel, neither of which apply here) was quite clearly made as a pilot episode for a series that was never made or never got shown here in the UK.
Set clearly during The Cold War and the 1970's, this starts with a satellite crashing to Earth and a race between The Russians & Americans to retrieve it. And a third party wishing to destroy it, the identity of this third party is never really clearly established or their reasons to want to destroy this probe or whatever it is.
Anyway, our hero Sam gets caught on the ocean floor when the probe is blown up by a planted mine (planted by the third party who wanted to destroy the mine) and exposed to a massive dose of radiation (which would have killed him) but by a freak accident he turns invisible.
He then is given a watch that enables him to turn visible & invisible at will for no more than 15 minutes at a time. He decides he wants to find out who planted the mine and uses his invisibility to do that.
It's an extremely weak plot with massive holes in it and not a great deal of story or character development.
It's an example of late 70's TV and how bad it truly could be, that's almost certainly the main reason why it never made it to full series status. I'd seen it before and it wasn't any better this time around.
Harmless rubbish.
Gemini Man (why Gemini? it normally represents twins or space travel, neither of which apply here) was quite clearly made as a pilot episode for a series that was never made or never got shown here in the UK.
Set clearly during The Cold War and the 1970's, this starts with a satellite crashing to Earth and a race between The Russians & Americans to retrieve it. And a third party wishing to destroy it, the identity of this third party is never really clearly established or their reasons to want to destroy this probe or whatever it is.
Anyway, our hero Sam gets caught on the ocean floor when the probe is blown up by a planted mine (planted by the third party who wanted to destroy the mine) and exposed to a massive dose of radiation (which would have killed him) but by a freak accident he turns invisible.
He then is given a watch that enables him to turn visible & invisible at will for no more than 15 minutes at a time. He decides he wants to find out who planted the mine and uses his invisibility to do that.
It's an extremely weak plot with massive holes in it and not a great deal of story or character development.
It's an example of late 70's TV and how bad it truly could be, that's almost certainly the main reason why it never made it to full series status. I'd seen it before and it wasn't any better this time around.
Harmless rubbish.