Terminal Velocity

Director: Deran Sarafian Deran Sarafian

Overview

Espionage, elaborate robberies, and sky diving, provide the excitement in this thrill-a-minute action movie that takes a gentle poke at the genres created by Hitchcock and Ian Fleming. Ditch Brodie, a sky-diving instructor rapidly finds himself falling without a chute into a complex morass of political intrigue and murder when he begins teaching pretty little Chris, a KGB agent, sky-diving. Chris is trying to save her country from a huge robbery of the Russian treasury headed by the evil Kerr, who along with his cohort D.A. investigator Ben Pinkwater, are chasing Chris and Ditch. The film's climactic highlight involves a spectacular free fall using two planes, and a Caddy with a locked trunk.

Product Details

Release Date:	12/10/2019
UPC:	0738329232276
Original Release:	1994
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	Kl Studio Classics
Region Code:	1
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:42:00

Special Features

Audio Commentary by Entertainment Journalist and Author Bryan Reesman; Theatrical Trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Charlie Sheen	Ditch Brodie
Nastassja Kinski	Chris Morrow
James Gandolfini	Ben Pinkwater
Christopher McDonald	Kerr
Gary Bullock	Lex
Hans R. Howes	Sam,Sam
Melvin Van Peebles	Noble
Cathryn de Prume	Karen
Suli McCullough	Robocam
Catherine DePrume	Karen
Richard C. Sarafian	Dominic
Lori Lynn Dickerson	Helicopter Newscaster
Terry Finn	Birthday Mom
Martha Vazquez	Newscaster
Tim Kelleher	1st Jump Junkie
Brooke Langton	2nd Jump Junkie
Tim Lounibos	3rd Jump Junkie
Sofia Shinas	Broken Legs
Matthew Mazuroski	Jump Instructor `Tom'
Cindi Shope	Babe
Chester Bennett	Vlad
Billy Hank Hooker	1st Gunman
John C. Meier	2nd Gunman
Evgeniy Shutov	Foreign Minister
Terey Summers	Cashier
Sandy Gibbons	Greyhound Clerk
Sam Smiley	Corvette Owner
Kurek Ashley	Cargo Pilot
Rance Howard	Stunt Pilot/Chuck
Paul Guyot	Car Wash Attendant
Robert L. Lee	1st FAA Inspector
Michael Caughan	2nd FAA Inspector
James R. Wilson	Bartender
Michelle Crisa	Stewardess
Jeff Daniels	Actor
Michael Gaughan	FAA Inspector #2
Joel McNeely	Composer

Technical Credits

David Twohy

Deran Sarafian	Director
David Twohy	Screenwriter,Executive Producer
Tom Engelman	Producer
Scott Kroopf	Producer
Lawrence J. Cavanaugh	Special Effects
Robert W. Cort	Executive Producer
Ted Field	Executive Producer
Buddy Joe Hooker	Stunts
Terry Liebling	Casting
Jerry Meyers	Stunts,Special Effects
Michael Coo	Key Grip
Doug Hubbard	Special Effects
Keith Campbell	Stunts
Bobby Bass	Stunts
Dana Hee	Stunts
Jeff Brockton	Stunts
Tom Hili	Stunts
Bob Munoz	Key Grip
Kevin Donnelly	Special Effects
Jim Nickerson	Stunts
Eddie Braun	Stunts
Steve Santosusso	Stunts
Daniel Epper	Stunts
Billy Burton	Stunts
Michael Wilhoit	Sound Editor
Rick Morris	Sound Editor

Editorial Reviews

This cheeky action thriller allowed Charlie Sheen to poke fun at his bad-boy image at a time when his reputation, if not his box-office reliability, was in decline, resulting in a film that's far more watchable than it has any right to be. It doesn't hurt that Nastassja Kinski, beginning her own career rehabilitation, also gets to make light of her softcore Eurotrash past as a sexy skydiving neophyte who isn't what she seems. The plot's fairly involved, but generally comprehensible, while the aerial sequences prove more believable and better shot than similar scenes in such CGI-driven blockbusters as Mission: Impossible; it's amazing what real live stunt men can do. Screenwriter and executive producer David N. Twohy, who had previously scribed Alien 3 and would go on to team with Sheen for 1996's similarly workmanlike The Arrival, shows the same grasp of genre conventions and how to tweak them that he would display with 2000's impressive sci-fi psychodrama Pitch Black. Future Sopranos star James Gandolfini even shows up in a typical villain role, making Terminal Velocity a study in the watchable work that can be done by folks who are past their peak or haven't reached it yet.