Terminal Velocity | | Cast : | Charlie Sheen, Nastassja Kinski | | Director : | Deran Sarafian | | Studio : | Hollywood Pictures | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | September 23, 1994 | | DVD Released Date : | October 08, 2002 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | May 16, 2005 | | Summary | Don't jump out of planes with people named Ditch! | Content
 | You have to dumb down a tad when watching this movie, overall it's funny, Sheen is his typical HOT SHOTS type self in this movie. Has some good action and stunts in it. Overall it's entertaining though at the time of it's release, we were drowning in sub-par action films dealing with skydiving or X-treme stunts in general.
Party-hard skydiving teacher Ditch Brodie (Charlie Sheen) has a knack for getting himself into trouble, but his booze-babes-and-planes shenanigans hardly prepare him for an international plot that pits Brodie and a mysterious KGB agent against a post-Cold War Russian villain called Kerr (Chris McDonald) and an American heavy named Ben Pinkwater (James Gandolfini). Aerial set pieces alternate with tongue-in-cheek flirtation and conspiracy-theory suspense as Brodie meets a beautiful new student, Chris Morrow (Nastassja Kinski), then must try to explain to the authorities how he allowed her to fall out of a plane to her death. Soon Brodie - on the run from both Kerr and the police - begins to realize that in espionage, as in romance, often nothing is as it seems. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 15, 2004 | | Summary | PUT ON YOUR SEAT BELTS !! | Content
| I watched this film for the first time during a long distance plane journey, many years ago and I just had to rewind the tape and watch it all over again as the film just enthralled me.
It is far superior to many action films that have done better than this at the Boxoffice.
Charlie Sheen and Natassia Kinski have great chemistry and the dialogues between them are really funny and engaging.
The director Deran Serafian does a great job of keeping the action, suspense and the story moving along at a fast clip and the tongue-in cheek humor goes a long way to keep everything in perspective.
Trust me and jump in for the ride, you won't be disappointed. |
| Rating | | | Date | October 15, 2003 | | Summary | hold on | Content
| a great ride, but Sheen seems misplaced in this one. Nastassja Kinski has never been sexier and awesomer. thrilling and action packed. the end with the windmills is the higlighted showdown |
| Rating | | | Date | July 28, 2003 | | Summary | Action movie that delivers | Content
| Terminal Velocity is an action movie and it passes the first critical test of the genre-its action scenes are plentiful and well staged.The adrenaline rush of the quality action movie is here present and correct with plenty of moments that leave a viewer on the edge of the seat.
Charlie Sheen plays Brodie ,a flying and parachute instructor one of whose pupils is presumed killed while on her first parachute lesson.He is suspicious and discovers that his pupil is not only very much alive but is involved in a plot to prevent the Russian Mafia getting their hands on a gold shipment and thus further destabilising the newly emergent Russian state.The pair are pusued by the villains and there are car chases,aerial stunts (the last one in particular is stunning)and shotouts galore before the final resolution.
The problems start when the action stops -which is not very often.Sheen sleepwalks through the role and there is zero chemistry between him and Natassja Kinski as the KGB agent he becomes involved with.It is left to the bad guys as played by James Gandolfo and Christpher McDonald to steal the acting honours ,while the writers ability to write good dialogue lags well behind their ability to set up action scenes.
When the action is gping on -4 stars ;when the pace slows -2 stars. |
| Rating | | | Date | December 08, 2002 | | Summary | The SQUAD | Content
| What a milestone. BRILLIANT film. Ditch Brodie is the greatest of all skydiving he-men. Team this specialist of the air up with Gabe Cash (land), Casey Ryback (sea) and Special Agent Johnny Utah (land, air AND sea- he's a surfer remember) as the ultimate early 90s American League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (the "Squad" for short). Make Bill Blazejowski their manager (why? cuz he's the best character in cinema history & besides Keaton needs the work). Set them against a gallery of rogues including Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber, Powers Boothe's Joshua Foss, Christopher Walken's Max Zorin and Kurtwood Smith's Clarence Boddicker (you know, the muscle) for the perfect match between good & evil. Package & sell it to Hollywood for a cool $100 million: I guarantee they'll make it back the first weekend, for who could resist? Long live Tripod. |
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