Lightspeed (2006) (TV)

Director:

Don E. FauntLeRoy

Writers:

John Gray (screenplay) and
John Gray (writer)

Release Date:

22 July 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Sci-Fi

Plot:

After an accident, a government agent gains the ability of super-speed and goes after an old friend turned Nemesis.

Plot Keywords:

Super Speed | Government Agent | Radiation | Shot In The Head | Superhero

Cast

Jason Connery	...	Daniel Leight / Lightspeed
Nicole Eggert	...	Beth Baker
Daniel Goddard	...	Python / Edward Bartlett
Lee Majors	...	Tanner
Michael Flynn	...	Dr. Findlay
K.C. Clyde	...	Tom Barcroft
Scott Hanks	...	Brian Latham
Kari Hawker	...	Young Nurse
Joyce Cohen	...	Old Nurse
James Jamison	...	Senator Paul Davis
Charles Halford	...	General Haade
Tim Whitaker	...	Young Father
Sheldon Worthington	...	Detective
Brighton Leigh	...	Rescue Worker
K. Danor Gerald	...	ER Doctor

Also Known As:

Stan Lee's Lightspeed (USA) (complete title)

Runtime:

Greece:90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Filming Locations:

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Company:

FWE Picture Company

Quotes:

Daniel Leight: Let's see how fast I really am.

Movie Connections:

References Casino (1995)

Below any acceptable standard of quality

43 year old Jason Connery plays a "ghost squad" agent who must fight his old friend Daniel Goddard who has turned into a snake man named Python. Connery gets trapped in a collapsing building and then irradiated at the hospital which gives him the power to run in fast forward. His costume is a bunch of crap from a sporting goods store. Python has an awesome makeup job and a plot to destroy the government for non-specific revenge, but he's equally silly.

The quality of this production is so crude that it makes most low budget TV movies look good. It's full of choppy slow motion, unnecessary dissolves, and ultra cheap CG special effects. Things blur and ghost a lot in an attempt to hide the unprofessional shooting, even though it just makes it look worse. The camera work is mindless and the score is canned. Not to mention the acting, which is typical of TV movies and straight to video junk. Python is especially bad since the guy under the makeup is trying to do the villain voice the whole time.

Connery never looks like anything but a middle aged loser in a jogging suit. This seems careless as all they really needed to do was put a girdle and a hairpiece on him. Apart from this, his performance makes it obvious he never would have been in movies in the first place if his father hadn't been Sean Connery.

Connery's character, Daniel Leight (leight, light, Lightspeed! Get it?) has a girlfriend played by Nicole Eggert. She's also part of the "ghost squad" (which is supposed to be a kind of special forces meet SWAT team) which is a pretty laughable concept as she is just another disposable Baywatch bimbo. Naturally she winds up as bait later in the film.

It's weak and predictable every step of the way. More than anything it feels like a knockoff of "Black Mask 2" which was worthless anyhow. It's 88 minutes are an eternity for any halfway discerning movie viewer. Oh, and Lee Majors is in it. Enough said.