Crash Point Zero

Before I start my review I should give some history of the director of this mess: Jim Wynorski. He goes under many pseudonyms: Jay Andrews (His usual hide name) H.R. Blueberry, Harold Blueberry, and Bob E. Brown (Heh-Heh). He also uses stock footage from other movies. I'll get to that... now to my review already in progress...

Treat! No! How could you, man! You're really hurtin' for cash I see.

The plot: A plane carrying a doomsday device is stranded near a mountain and FBI Agent Jason Ross (Williams) has to save some people before the world explodes.

Wow, this movie is cheap! There's scenes lifted wholesale from "Long Kiss Goodnight", and "Cliffhanger". Not ripoffs, but the actual scene! What they did film is rubbish. All the actors (except Treat) are awful and need to rip up their "SAG" cards. There's one scene with a bear that's hilarious! You can plainly see there's a man in the suit.

Unfortunately, Treat made another movie with Jim: "Gale Force". Don't get me started about the movies Treat made with Fred Olen Ray, "Critical Mass", and "Venomous".

"Prince Of The City", "Deadly Matrimony", and even "Third Degree Burn" are better than this. Don't punish yourself like I did.

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I'm a huge Treat Williams fan but I have to say... this movie sucked. The acting really wasn't bad, I don't blame the actors at all. But all in all the summary leads you to believe that Treat Williams is the hero and he gets involved like no other when in all reality, it's almost shot like there's 5 different stories going on at the same time. It was really hard to enjoy this, a couple of the jokes were pretty good and you can enjoy SOME of the dialogue but for the most part.. this movie was a bit of a joke. If it had been edited much better and perhaps if there was a bit more to the relationship between Agent Jason and Nadia it COULD have passed for an okay movie. Some of the scenes look like they were ripped off some other movie too.. not pleased.

I like Jay Andrews/Jim Wynorski movies simply because they give you a lot of cheesy bang for the buck; they're like TV movies without the good stuff being censored out. I like his whatever-it-takes attitude and give him credit for putting in the long hours it must take to pump out these features. I'll bet there's a lot of headaches involved in obtaining the stock footage, too (I'd love to hear some in-depth stories about how he manages that)! His crew, particularly director-of-photography Andrea Risotto, deserve kudos for giving these pictures a nice "clean", professional look. True guilty pleasures, I always look forward to the next Jay Andrews DVD and generally will sit through the commentary tracks, too!

Just wanted to add to the comment by Bailey-21(Alabama)...

who said "the entire climax of this... is nearly an exact copy of that film (Long Kiss). Frame for frame, it's a pitiful ripoff."

If you look at this scene 'Frame by frame', you can actually SEE Geena Davis standing by the truck! this is the SAME FOOTAGE!

I wonder if both films were made by the same studio, and they ran out of money on this one, or if this is even legal!

I felt Ripped Off!

This movie is an outright fraud. It simply splices in footage of the films, "Cliffhanger"(Sylvester Stallone), "Narrow Margin"(Gene Hackman), and "Long Kiss Goodnight"(Gena Davis). This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. How it managed to get a 5.7 rating I don't understand. I am taking this back to Blockbuster and demand my rental fee back. Has anyone ever seen this done in another film?