Crash Point Zero

November. 22,2000      R
Rating:
3.4
Trailer Synopsis Cast

A scientist recovers a powerful weapon created by inventor Nicola Tesla in the early twentieth century. Now, the plane carrying the device and a disparate group of passengers crashes in the Canadian mountains. The battle to survive begins.

Treat Williams as  Agent Jason Ross
Hannes Jaenicke as  Julian Beck
Gary Hudson as  Capt. Ed Lorenzo
John Beck as  Dr. Maurice Hunter
Julie St. Claire as  Nadia Hunter
Ava Fabian as  Jessica Martin
Steve Franken as  Stuart Elliott
Susan Blakely as  Barbara Esmond
Lorissa McComas as  Wendy Yates
Allan Kolman as  Peter

Reviews

Listonixio
2000/11/22

Fresh and Exciting

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AnhartLinkin
2000/11/23

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

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InformationRap
2000/11/24

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

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FirstWitch
2000/11/25

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

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translator
2000/11/26

i work as a translator for a local TV station. since it's local, it's criminally underfunded. but it has a program to run. translated, that means it's buying a lot of cheap B-movies. so in my "line of duty", i'm forced to watch a lot of crap. and i mean A LOT. more than anyone who has a choice ever had to. "crash point zero" was one such example. and oh my god, where do you begin? the other reviewers broke it down pretty accurately: from borrowing unused and differently textured shots from other movies (ed wood would've been proud!), to characters driving three (THREE!) distinct cars (one of them blue, two of them red) within a single scene, to the laughable and meaningless dialog, HORRENDOUS acting, and an all-around stench of amateur pointlessness. the list of examples of sheer stupidity in this flick would be higher than burj dubai! i guess 99% of what little budget they had went into the last-scene explosion (the only semi-decent thing in this abomination of a movie) to the detriment of everything else. really, some of this stuff is simply beyond words and has to be seen to be believed. what's astonishing is a feeling that the crew (well, at least most of them - some "actors" have that "what the f*ck am i doing here? hope nobody i know sees this" look on their face) labor under the illusion that they're creating a serious and suspenseful thriller, and obviously take it all very seriously, which is just amazing. i mean, there's nothing wrong in a B-flick that's aware of its "B-ness" and shamelessly flaunts it, but a deluded B-flick that thinks it's something more than it is is just pathetic. granted there are even worse, cheaper and misguidedly serious movies than this ("hyper sonic", for example), this still pretty much redefines the term "a B-movie". if you're done watching your paint dry, rent this and be amazed. really, it's quite a feat.

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bronny
2000/11/27

I gave this movie 1/10, although I have to say I watched it right the way through simply because it made me laugh so much. After I realized how silly and badly put together it was, I started watching out for all the things that didn't make sense - which was basically the whole movie. The acting, the photography, the script, the plot, the taking-off other movies - the whole effort was a joke. How could someone sit back after making it and think 'Yeah, this is a good movie, I'm pleased with it'? Anyway, it did make me laugh, but only because it was so bad.

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lucinda stone
2000/11/28

They took whole parts of other movies, especially the Gene Hackman movie Narrow Margin from the rescue of the girl from the cabin, the helicopter chasing them down the mountain and all of the train footage - is this legal? There were no credits given to the movies they pirated from "Narrow Margin" to "A Long Kiss Goodbye" and "Cliffhanger"...maybe more. Their own footage of the story and dialog was pathetic! I love Treat Williams -- how did he get rooked into this farce.

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wanchai_mike
2000/11/29

Just wanted to add to the comment by Bailey-21(Alabama)...who said "the entire climax of this... is nearly an exact copy of that film (Long Kiss). Frame for frame, it's a pitiful ripoff."If you look at this scene 'Frame by frame', you can actually SEE Geena Davis standing by the truck! this is the SAME FOOTAGE!I wonder if both films were made by the same studio, and they ran out of money on this one, or if this is even legal!I felt Ripped Off!

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