Lightspeed

Lightspeed is about a superhero, not unlike the excellent TV super hero, Flash, but with a lot less "flash". Python, his nemesis has great makeup, terrible lines and not a great super villain, who provides the typical strains of a bad guy gone rampant. Lightspeed is one of the worst movies I have had the displeasure of watching since Alien Apocalypse. Mr. Lee is one person I have the greatest respect for, especially with his Spiderman and Hulk movies showing some excitement, but Lightspeed is a dud at best. I had trouble watching the poor acting, and the actor, Connery, although Sean Connery's son and a good actor, just couldn't make this movie click for me. The plot was typical and droll, and the imagination of the special defects ( I mean effects) are silly and graphically lacking anything close to exciting. I would think Stan Lee could have done more with it and maybe have done a remake of Flash with a bit more flair and improved special effects, a plot, and better acting. All in all, Lightspeed is not worth watching a second time. Stick to Who Wants to be a Superhero, this movie is not even laughable, but leaves one to only groan and remain disappointed.

I know Sci-Fi Channel loves to air the worst sci-fi movies they can find, but they've outdone themselves with this garbage!

OMG, it's not just bad, it is stupid! The low budget Captain America and Spider-Man TV movies in the 80s had more imagination and style than this bowl of chum.

Everythting about it was a joke: The stars, the story, the characters, the dialogue, the direction, the not-very-special effects and most of all that ridiculous costume! Sure, every superhero with a bad comb over walks into a sporting goods shop and throws together their costume. Connery looked like a member of some gay stage show.

Jason's dad would be rolling over in his grave if he was dead -- and seeing his son in THIS may kill him.

If you want to see a good show about a guy with super speed, skip this vat of pee and pick up the DVDs of the Flash TV series from the 90s. It's a HELL of a lot more netertaining.

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I wonder why film studios make these low budget versions of superhero stories, everything about it was mediocre, acting, effects, story. Having seen the likes of Spider-man and Sin City this felt like I went back to the early 90s and not in a good reminiscing way. The main character looks about 50, balding fairly heavily, and not very fit, which didn't give me much confidence in his running ability, the python chap was quite good though, and i'm guessing they spent 90% of the budget on his average make-up.

The best bit of this film was the high speed running sequences, my misses thought it was a straight up comedy. I beg you not to waste your time on this, watch something else, BUT if you do have to watch it, enjoy the running.

For starters,if I had to venture a guess, I think Stan Lee only created the characters, which are pretty good, in general. The director, while highly competent, can't save this terrible screenplay. For Pete's sake, this was written by the same scribe as Jack-O. Ecch! How do these guys get into the business? Anyway, this entire film would have been much better if the Python character became the superhero (He could have fought crime by night and then shed his snake skin the next day). A highly forgettable hero, poor sound, lame fights, a story line that depicts events that should have happened at night going on in the day, and the lack of any discernible city-scape work are too much for solid actors and nice make up to overcome. Better luck next time, folks.

Well the box looked good, should be a good movie right?

This movie is such a knockoff of The Flash and it is also surprisingly violent.

This is NOT a movie to show children. It is very bloody.

The acting is rather boring except for a few actors.

I was also disappointed in the Lightspeed suit. It was basically a ski speed suit with white markings on it. Blah.

Nothing more than a SciFi made for TV movie.

Skip it.

I'd say rent or buy the old Flash TV series... it's a lot better!