Kill Speed

Your usual brainless action flick that still entertains you enough when all the good films are already rented out is usually about 90 minutes. Why they made this horrible ride 23 minutes longer is beyond my comprehension because the movie just doesn't have enough substance for that. The basic story of some "cool" guys drug trafficking with airplanes, getting mixed up in some bad stuff and in the end pulling off a "glorious" rescue mission that makes them the good guys COULD be entertaining enough as a basis. Unfortunately we get confronted with dialogue that is barely more interesting then the white pages, acting that makes Arnold Schwarzenegger look like a Oscar winner and action scenes that, except for the showdown, are so boring that not even an "exciting" soundtrack and fast cuts can make it really interesting. And even the showdown isn't that cool.

Save your money for something else, you'll only end up very angry if you don't.

I watched this with a couple of pilot buddies of mine. I'll start with what I liked because the list is quite small.

The flying. Apart from a few shots which were obviously CGI, the rest were actual aircraft actually flying, and the production team did a great job of making them look and sound fantastic. The fact the producers chose to go down that route instead of doing them entirely in CG deserves some credit.

But the list of gross factual errors, bad dialog, silly direction, and holes in what is already a paper thin plot pales in comparison with the bad pacing. For me, the pacing totally ruined any enjoyment I might have received from this film. One of the action scenes in the middle of the film was far better done than the one at the end so the second half of the film felt rather anti-climatic.

The plot and story are above average. The acting is above average. The action matches any thing in the Fast and the Furious films. The best part of this film is exposure to viewer of these new kind of plastic aircraft. The stunts, and action was real. There is none of this trick photography, and green screen stunts. The action is based on real life kind of flying done by experimental aircraft. These aircraft are not a fantasy waiting to be built. These kind of aircraft are flying now. Imagine being able to fly yourself across the country at 300 miles per hours. I was impressed with the film. I plan to buy the DVD when it comes out.

Good acting, great character development, and some humour. What more could you ask for? This was a lot better than many of the higher budget films I have seen. I really liked the characters and the story line - nothing earth shattering or unexpected, but an enjoyable movie all around. The storyline was predictable, but what I found the best was the characters. The movie took a little time getting started, it was slow and kinda weird - I guess laying the feeling of the drug trade and what it does, but I do not feel it lent anything to the movie as a whole. If you can hold on watching long enough to get to met Stayger and the rest of the Fly Boys, the story really gets going along at a good clip from there. I could not stop thinking about Andrew Keegan and how he reminded me of Heath Ledger. I would recommend this movie to anyone wanting just a plain old good story.

I suffered through the whole feature. I had to watch it because it is my job. Please, for your own sake, skip the damn thing.