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Terminal Velocity (1994)
Rate:
4
Viewed:
9/14
9/14:
Terminal velocity is defined as the maximum speed an object will hit when free-falling to earth, and for human beings, it's
approximately 122 mph.
Anyway, Terminal Velocity is an action-adventure B flick starring Charlie Sheen, and uh... that's it. He alone makes it
watchable enough which features a lot of skyfalling stunts, but they're not awesome like
Point Break.
The story is idiotic because why does an American Joe Nobody want to help a KGB agent recover a gold bullion? What's
there to do in Arizona, a vast wasteland of desert, for the KGB agents? By the way, didn't the agency disband in 1991?
A heavy dose of skepticism is needed here. I'm sure the U.S. military has the airspace covered through its elaborate
setup of radars which means it isn't possible for a huge airplane to appear out of nowhere from Russia.
Meanwhile, there's an injection of some noir but not enough to make things interesting. At least, I get to see a
three-legged German Shepherd at the end. Notice the slow-moving blades of various windmills, so how can one be accelerated to
let blond-haired Kerr's freak death happen so conveniently?
All in all, Terminal Velocity is too mediocre to produce any excitement, and Charlie Sheen can do better than this.