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Movie
German title Deadly speed
Original title Terminal Velocity
Country of production USA , Canada
original language English
Publishing year 1994
length 102 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Deran Sarafian
script David Twohy
production Tom Engelman , Scott Kroopf , David Twohy
music Joel McNeely
camera Norman Kent , Oliver Wood
cut Peck Prior , Frank J. Urioste
occupation

Terminal Velocity (Terminal Velocity) is an American action film of Deran Sarafian in 1994 with Charlie Sheen and Nastassja Kinski in the leading roles.

action

Arizona in the USA. At the beginning of the film, a young woman, who turns out to be Russian, telephones with her unknown counterpart and reports about a Boeing 747 from Interflug that has landed in the desert. The knowledge is apparently too sensitive, because shortly afterwards she is overwhelmed by two men and questioned about it. She is repeatedly dipped upside down in an indoor aquarium, but withstands this torture. At the end of the questioning, she is drowned by the men who leave the body in the apartment's shower stall.

In the meantime, well-known in the parachute scene, the jumper and womanizer Richard "Ditch" Brodie has performed a media-effective stunt, which once again threatens to revoke his license. In order to be halfway louder again, Ditch takes over the jumping training with the amateur Chris Morrow . But during the flight at jump height, Chris falls unsecured from the plane and hits the ground without braking, without Ditch being able to help her. He is then suspended, and prosecutor Ben Pinkwater is pursuing a murder charge against Brodie for having disregarded his duties of supervision.

To restore his reputation, Ditch investigates on his own and realizes that he, like everyone else, has been deceived. He follows a plane and comes to an abandoned hangar where he finds Chris awake. She only faked her death to have peace from her enemies. To make her death appear believable, she let the body of a friend (the one killed at the beginning of the film) "fall to death".

Chris needs a special item, Ditch a clean slate again: So the unequal couple has to work together. With the help of Ditch's jumping skills, Ditch arrives in a guarded factory, where he is directed by Chris about the thing she needs: a CD-ROM. While on the run, Ditch left with the condition that he hand the CD to Chris at his jump hangar. Here he also orders Pinkwater to convince him of the living Chris. But his unauthorized action backfires: Pinkwater used to be Chris' boss, now he's her opponent. With just a little bit of trouble, Chris and Ditch can escape his henchmen in the desert and hide.

Here both get closer and Chris also comes out with the truth: She is a former Russian agent of the KGB , Pinkwater was once her colleague and is now the head of a gang of the Russian mafia . It stole a shipment of gold worth US $ 600 million from the former Soviet Union and brought it to the United States in the jumbo jet now in the desert . The CD obtained by Ditch contains the exact location of the aircraft. Equipped with this knowledge, the two found the machine and the gold. Ditch wants to take one of the bars with him, as he was unable to take part in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow as a gymnast due to the boycott of the USA and hopes to get Russian gold after all. Chris reacts dismissively, however, as the gold rightfully belongs to her people. At that moment, Pinkwater's henchmen storm the plane. Chris and Ditch can escape, but without the gold.

Ditch has had enough and demands that Chris prove his innocence. In an unobserved moment, she does so, but leaves Ditch to confront Pinkwater in person. Ditch chases them and can only just watch Pinkwater knock Chris down and put him in the trunk of a Cadillac . This is maneuvered into the stowage space of a ready-to-go cargo plane, which is also used to transport the gold. Ditch takes on the chase with a pilot and his biplane .

In the air, Ditch performs a climbing stunt to get over the loading ramp into Pinkwater's machine. Here he kidnaps the Cadillac, with which he reverses out of the plane. In free fall he can free Chris from the locked trunk and jump with her before the car hits the ground. The two end up in a wind farm where they are surprised by Pinkwater, who also jumped off. He stabs Chris and has a fight with Ditch, who pulls his reserve umbrella. Pinkwater is blown between the wind turbines and killed by the rotor blades.

In the end, Chris survived, they both become a couple and deliver the stolen millions back to Russia. Like Chris, Ditch receives a high medal - and has finally got his Russian gold.

Reviews

James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that the film was a bad movie. Only explosions and shootings would save the audience from falling asleep.

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times of September 23, 1994 that the scene of the rescue of Morrow from the trunk of a car was the "damnedest" action scene he has had since killing the villain with a rocket in the film True Lies - saw true lies . He asked if there was any reason to see the film at all.

“Fast-paced action film that ironically ironizes its absurd story and garnishes it with a portion of romance. On top of that, the film offers the comeback of the superbly playing Nastassja Kinski. "

Others

  • The script was first for Tom Cruise written and after his renunciation of the role of Richard Brodie for 500,000 US dollars sold. William Baldwin also turned down the lead role.
  • In Germany the film was released in an FSK-16 version, but in many places it was released in an FSK-12 version for the video and DVD market.
  • In the film, Charlie Sheen drives a white 1970 Dodge Challenger . An almost equally looking model was also used in the movie Vanishing Point from 1970 used. This film was directed by Richard C. Sarafian , the father of Deran Sarafian , the director of Deadly Speed .
  • For the free fall of a car from the plane and the associated climbing party to free Chris Morrow from the locked trunk , 23 Cadillac Allantés were used , nine of which were completely destroyed in the process.
  • Martha Vasquez , the television newscaster from the beginning who covered Brody's arrest, is also a real-life TV announcer and works for a local Arizona broadcaster.
  • Richard Sarafian Jr. , the director's brother, has a supporting role as Dominic in the film .
  • Auffälligster error of the film was the use of a Interflug - Boeing 747 . The fleet of the GDR airline Interflug never included a Boeing or any other American aircraft, only Ilyushin and Tupolev aircraft . The most modern aircraft was an Airbus , which Interflug put into service shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall. In addition, a De Havilland DHC-8 was chartered from Tyrolean once .
  • Chris Morrow ends the military salute with his left hand.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Review by James Berardinelli
  2. ^ Review by Roger Ebert
  3. Deadly Speed. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 5, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used