Terminal Velocity
[DVD]

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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Skydiving instructor 'Ditch' Brodie (Charlie Sheen) has his school shut down after student Chris Morrow (Nastassja Kinski) apparently plummets to her death in a jump. When Ditch investigates he discovers that Chris was in fact a highly trained skydiver, and that there was another plane in the vicinity at the time of the 'accident'. It transpires that Chris is still alive, and the whole stunt was staged in order to track down a renegade KGB agent. FROM AMAZON.CO.UK While investigating the mysterious circumstances of a beautiful student's demise, a maverick skydiving instructor finds himself entangled in a murderous conspiracy involving Soviet spies and a lost shipment of gold. Logical it ain't, but this entertainingly daft thriller does offer some good-natured satiric riffs on standard action star conventions. Charlie Sheen (throughout most of the film, this not-especially-heroic hero displays the approximate intelligence of a bag of doorknobs) stars along with Nastassja Kinski in a welcome return after a long absence from the screen. Terminal Velocity is good fun for adrenaline junkies, with a boffo climax involving a midair escape attempt from a free-falling convertible. Writer David Twohy went on to direct Sheen in the considerably more accomplished The Arrival. --Andrew Wright

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