Lightspeed

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.

This is The Great Stan Lee we're talking about so I hesitate to say anything bad. Nonetheless Mr. Lee has decided to do trash for cash. First of all the music throughout the whole film is low grade 80's movie synthesizer. This music is so bad and so distracting it makes your eyes roll. It also sets a tone of b-movie cheapness. Honestly I do love cheapo b-films but you have to be able to laugh at it. Lightspeed tries so hard to take itself seriously but has nothing good or fun to offer. The script is horrible, the acting is a joke and the characters are preposterous. Worst of all, ALL the superhero elements are derived from other comic book characters to create an uninteresting amalgam with no unique abilities. Again, I love Stan Lee and comics and b- movies, but this is one to avoid.

The good news is that the Python makeup is quite good.

Shame that they used up the entire budget on it. If you've been paying attention you will now know:

1. Leading man projects middle age; 2. Lee Majors projects old age; 3. SFX - rubbish; 4. Hero's super costume - truly rubbish; 5. Plot - risible; 6. Dialogue - execrable; 7. Heroine - having been extracted from trouble immediately puts herself right back in it; 8. Acting - at best no better than average. At worst (Python guy) - absolutely awful. And I COULD do better, and I'm no actor; 9. Python's death scene - huh? What happened?

I suppose Nicole Eggert is moderately decorative.

Stan is going to wear out his not inconsiderable goodwill in the comics community if he continue to put his name to drivel like this.

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.

jk90

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!