I actually only caught about the last 15 minutes of the movie. It was enough.
I saw it billed as "Stan Lee's Lightspeed" on Sci Fi, and thought I'd give it a whirl. It's basically another Stan Lee version of the Flash (he's tied to several super speedsters, all that failed at varying levels of living up to the Flash's popularity). Lightspeed can, as the name suggests, supposedly run at the speed of light. He's a government agent on track of a sinister bad guy. I think the villain's name is Python. Basically, if a human and crocodile had a child, you'd have the bad guy.
The dialog is terrible, the acting isn't much better, and even for a superhero story, there's a lot that's hard to swallow. Nicole Eggert, playing Lightspeed's love interest, fails to run at various opportunities when the villain's trying to kill her. In the climatic scene, Lightspeed has to run several miles to take care of one situation before he can come back to fight his nemesis in a final showdown. If he can run at the speed of light, what takes him so long in getting there and coming back? Why does he stand there and let the villain beat the crap out of him? And why is his girlfriend tougher than he is? If you enjoy bad flicks, give it a whirl. But if you enjoy decent movies, good superhero stories, or anything else that's somewhat normal, stay away.
I saw it billed as "Stan Lee's Lightspeed" on Sci Fi, and thought I'd give it a whirl. It's basically another Stan Lee version of the Flash (he's tied to several super speedsters, all that failed at varying levels of living up to the Flash's popularity). Lightspeed can, as the name suggests, supposedly run at the speed of light. He's a government agent on track of a sinister bad guy. I think the villain's name is Python. Basically, if a human and crocodile had a child, you'd have the bad guy.
The dialog is terrible, the acting isn't much better, and even for a superhero story, there's a lot that's hard to swallow. Nicole Eggert, playing Lightspeed's love interest, fails to run at various opportunities when the villain's trying to kill her. In the climatic scene, Lightspeed has to run several miles to take care of one situation before he can come back to fight his nemesis in a final showdown. If he can run at the speed of light, what takes him so long in getting there and coming back? Why does he stand there and let the villain beat the crap out of him? And why is his girlfriend tougher than he is? If you enjoy bad flicks, give it a whirl. But if you enjoy decent movies, good superhero stories, or anything else that's somewhat normal, stay away.