Episode 5 of "MacGyver" for the XXIst century is the weakest so far. It is ridiculous, the plot makes no sense, and the character's decisions are risible. On top of having basically zero 'MacGyver' moments.
One of the things the old "MacGyver" had is that our hero found himself in the middle of a situation without having expected to: he goes to visit some friends and their oil drilling venture becomes an inferno, he goes on a walk to Asia and gets entangled with some drug dealers, he is going fishing and ends up being kidnapped... This new MacGyver with his endless missions of extracting agents or similar has close to zero originality. And we are only 5 episodes in.
This time they have to protect a woman that has some information very very important. So important that the 'bad people' trying to get her will do anything to kill her, even jump on a train from a helicopter and go around the wagons with guns on their hands... which makes no passenger raise their eyebrows in surprise.
It is not only that the idea is once again the same. It is not that MacGyver doesn't really do anything, and that Jack with his gun is more of a problem than a plus. It is also that it seems Europeans (or Germans) are all OK with people running around trains shooting, with hands on their hands, punching, tasering... First, arms are not so common in Europe (I have only seen army people, policemen or similar carrying them in my times there). Second, it is an insult to the viewer expect them to believe that no one would raise the alarm or try to stop the train with all that is going on that train. Here, though, everyone keeps sleeping through the fights (well, a couple look a little bit surprised). It is too much of suspension of disbelief. And that is just a small example of too many that happen in this episode (as the incredible moment at the station).
Poorly conceived, poorly developed.