Terminal Velocity (1994) – Deran Sarafian.
'I'm more than a walking penis, I'm a flying penis!
Hunky maverick skydive instructor with notably good hair (Charlie Sheen) gets dangerously entangled with a beautiful skydiving soviet spy with even better hair (Nastassja Kinski), in glossy 90s thrill-spiller Terminal Velocity. Before I continue, I wanted to take a wee digression, and once again savour Sheen's stridently male moniker in Sarafian's entertainingly slick, full-throttled, sky-borne spy shenanigans...'Ditch Brodie'!!!???? I had sincerely hoped Mr. Sheen, the actor, not cleaning product, would have ditched his given name and appropriated Ditch Brodie for real, alas, he did not. Terminal Velocity provides an amiable bounty of suspense, snappy badinage, adrenalized aeronautical acrobatics, with Bad Boy Sheen's glib, FU attitude being no small part of Terminal Velocity's evergreen watchability. Alongside the charismatic pairing of Sheen and alluring Ms Kinski, Sarafian assembled a quality cast of energetic supporting players, with menacing James Gandolfini providing a more than credible nemesis! I still appreciate it when an alpha dude's gravity-defying heroics are noisily telegraphed by histrionic guitar shreddage, yet another bullseye from Terminal Velocity! When esteemed character actor Rance Howard turns up in a picture, he is frequently given little to do, whereas in Terminal Velocity Rance is the equally derring-do facilitator of grandstanding sky-master Ditch's dizzying display of daredevil heroism! Way-ta-go Rance!!!!!!



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