rudi-coel Review of Velocity Trap

Velocity Trap (1999)

SPOILER: not worth seeing but for one sequence

[26 August 2004]

The price at which it was sold should have warned me suspicious, but then you never know and I went ahead and bought it. Generally, the better the summary on the back of a DVD is, the worse the film. It certainly proved true in this case. The acting is very weak and most of the developments are so predictable that after some twenty minutes of looking at it, I was on the point of not wasting any more of my valuable life time. Still I looked on until the end. And I was rewarded in some way at least. For me the only thing worth watching in the movie is the relationship between the main character and the navigator. For me the best scene in the movie - and it would be a good scene even in a good movie - is the one in which they both are in the hibernation unit pointing a gun at each other even in their sleep. If only the entire movie should have been like this