A maverick skydiver and a former KGB agent team up to stop the Russian mafia from stealing gold.A maverick skydiver and a former KGB agent team up to stop the Russian mafia from stealing gold.A maverick skydiver and a former KGB agent team up to stop the Russian mafia from stealing gold.
Hans Howes
- Sam
- (as Hans R. Howes)
Cathryn de Prume
- Karen
- (as Cathryn De Prume)
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- TriviaThe news anchor that reports on the arrest of Ditch Brodie in downtown Phoenix is Martha Vazquez. She was at the time and for many years a news anchor at KVOA News 4, Tucson before resigning in 2012.
- GoofsIn the several scenes where reserve parachutes are used, once they are inflated, a pilot chute can be seen trailing behind and attached to the top skin. Real reserve parachutes do not have the pilot chutes attached to them, the pilot chutes and deployment bags are designed to automatically disconnect after the parachutes inflates.
- Quotes
Chris Morrow: Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.
Richard "Ditch" Brodie: Excuse me?
Chris Morrow: KGB, for short.
Richard "Ditch" Brodie: Oh, come on! It's the KG-used-to-B!
- Crazy creditsThe song listing at the end of the credits is missing one track. Sting's "This Cowboy Song" which actually plays through the credits, whoops.
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Written by Daniel Steigerwald, John Edwards and Jeff Klaven
Performed by Royal Jelly
Courtesy of Island Records, Inc.
Featured review
Big, dumb fun
When Ditch Brodie takes a novice skydiver (Chris Morrow) up in his plane for lessons, she tragically falls to her death. Brodie loses his license and tries to live with the loss. However an closer look at a video of the accident reveals a second plane where a body was thrown to impersonate Chris. Brodie investigates and uncovers a plot to capture sensitive information and return it to Russia.
This is a really fun film. It's not meant to be a masterpiece or a deep political thriller. It is meant to be a fun ride through exaggerated characters and silly set pieces. The plot is almost pointless - it's just an excuse to hang the set pieces around. However what you do get is Sheen overacting, great action scenes - the best being Sheen skydiving after a car which has Kinsji locked in the trunk. You understand? - it's meant to be big dumb fun. Personally I think this is better than a lot of big summer films that have big special effects scenes and ridiculous plots but try to take themselves seriously. This knows it's all a bit unlikely but enjoys itself anyway.
Sheen is the key to the tongue-in-cheek approach. He doesn't play a character - he almost just plays himself! Even when he's in action scenes he's smiling - because he's having fun! and it makes me enjoy it a lot more. Kinski almost has as much fun in her role, but she has to carry a lot of the plot so she is more serious at time. A pre-Sopranos James Gandolfini is menacing in his small bad guy role and Melvin Van Peebles makes an appearance to show that it's not just his son that can do daft films.
Overall it's silly dumb fun. Sheen enjoys himself so why can't you?
This is a really fun film. It's not meant to be a masterpiece or a deep political thriller. It is meant to be a fun ride through exaggerated characters and silly set pieces. The plot is almost pointless - it's just an excuse to hang the set pieces around. However what you do get is Sheen overacting, great action scenes - the best being Sheen skydiving after a car which has Kinsji locked in the trunk. You understand? - it's meant to be big dumb fun. Personally I think this is better than a lot of big summer films that have big special effects scenes and ridiculous plots but try to take themselves seriously. This knows it's all a bit unlikely but enjoys itself anyway.
Sheen is the key to the tongue-in-cheek approach. He doesn't play a character - he almost just plays himself! Even when he's in action scenes he's smiling - because he's having fun! and it makes me enjoy it a lot more. Kinski almost has as much fun in her role, but she has to carry a lot of the plot so she is more serious at time. A pre-Sopranos James Gandolfini is menacing in his small bad guy role and Melvin Van Peebles makes an appearance to show that it's not just his son that can do daft films.
Overall it's silly dumb fun. Sheen enjoys himself so why can't you?
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- Also known as
- Vận Tốc Cuối
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- Budget
- $50,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $16,487,349
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $5,500,404
- Sep 25, 1994
- Gross worldwide
- $16,487,349
- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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