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List Price: $14.99 Our Price: $12.99 You Save: $2 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • Letterboxed • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 23 September, 1994 DVD Release : 05 January, 1999 |
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Terminal Velocity description While investigating the mysterious circumstances of a beautiful student's demise, a maverick skydiving instructor finds himself entangled in a murderous conspiracy involving Soviet spies and a lost shipment of gold. Logical it ain't, but this entertainingly daft thriller does offer some good-natured satiric riffs on standard action star conventions. Charlie Sheen (throughout most of the film, this not-especially-heroic hero displays the approximate intelligence of a bag of doorknobs) stars along with Nastassja Kinski in a welcome return after a long absence from the screen. Good fun for adrenaline junkies, with a boffo climax involving a midair escape attempt from a free-falling convertible. Writer David Twohy went on to direct Sheen in the considerably more accomplished The Arrival. --Andrew Wright |
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TERMINAL VELOCITY, released in 1994, is a movie that has aged extremely well, except maybe for the KGB and end-of-Cold War mood that was reminiscent of the era after the Berlin Wall fell, and a new era was unveiled in the former one-party USSR. The thrill and action aspects of this film, are as good as any that the best Bond 007 movies had to offer, no doubt. The 5.1 audio is phenomenal, as are the crisp, crystal clear digital sequences on the DVD release. Probably, it will mostly be the below 21 viewers who will especially appreciate the extensive aerodrome and airplane settings and sequences, considering that airplanes, even today in 2007, are still somewhat exotic, as almost nobody has a pilot's license, or has a parachute jumping training, for that matter. For the movie to show Charlie Sheen and Nastassja Kinski at their best, in those sequences, brings a valuable commodity to the finished product, which is its entire dream-like atmosphere. This is what makes believable the otherwise impossible turn of events, that favor the 2 protagonists against failure, and against all odds, at each turn and moment during the course of the movie. The musical score is also exceptional, for a movie of this genre, and is a pleasure througout the 90 minutes. A last note, is the presence of James Gandolfini, early in his career, presented as a "bad guy" obviously, yet ... this actor, despite his later similar role in the Sopranos, is perhaps not that much of a natural as a bad guy - this being one person's opinion. |
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