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TERMINAL VELOCITY – Joel McNeely
THROWBACK THIRTY
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
Terminal Velocity was the first of two action movies set in the world of skydiving to hit cinema screens in 1994 (the other was the much more popular and successful Drop Zone, scored by Hans Zimmer). This film was directed by Deran C. Sarafian and starred Charlie Sheen as former Olympic gymnast-turned-daredevil skydiver Richard “Ditch” Brodie. One day a woman named Christa Morrow (Nastassja Kinski) comes to Ditch’s skydiving school asking him to teach her how to jump, but then apparently dies in a freak accident, leaving Ditch in legal trouble. Later, Ditch discovers that Christa is alive and is actually part of a complex conspiracy involving stolen gold and Russian mobsters; Christa is a former KGB agent trying to stop a group of criminals from using the gold to finance a coup in Russia. Despite the film containing some admittedly rather impressive aerial stunts and action sequences – including a pivotal scene which features Sheen falling to earth while at the wheel of a Cadillac Allanté – the film turned out to be as ridiculous as the plot suggests, and flopped badly with both critics and audiences. Read more…
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