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Stan Lee’s Lightspeed

 

Picture: C+     Sound: B-     Extras: D     Main Program: C

 

 

Stan Lee is known as one of the founders of the wildly successful Marvel Comics and even recently worked for longtime friendly-rival DC Comics, though he was responsible for some great crossover comic releases between the two companies going way back.  In more recent years, he has been striking out on his own with various superhero productions and Stan Lee’s Lightspeed (2005) is one of them.

 

Jason Connery is government “ghost squad” agent Daniel Leight, severely injured in a building collapse caused by uber-terrorist Python (Daniel Goddard) in a near-fatal encounter.  Just when he is being treated for injuries and in the trusted care of his own, someone purposely alters special radiation treatments to kill him.  Instead, he becomes the title character, able to move and run faster than just about anything.

 

Once again, as in the Marvel Universe, radiation does not kill, but mutates causing another hero or villain.  Marvel never did create their total answer to DC’s The Flash, but this is a little better than the horrid TV series version of that character.  Unfortunately, this is also as lame as most of the Marvel TV and feature film productions (pre-Blade) they co-produced.  Too bad, because maybe this could have worked somehow.  Lee Majors (The Six Million Dollar Man, still not on DVD in the U.S. and barely anywhere else) is one of the few highlights here otherwise and his character is not developed or on screen enough to boot.

 

Some may enjoy this retro piece, but otherwise, the experience of watching Stan Lee’s Lightspeed will likely leave you as quickly as the title suggests.

 

The anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image is soft and obviously shot on digital High Definition video.  It is adequate at best, but nothing to write home about.  The Dolby Digital 5.1 mix has enough surrounds to seem like a current production, but they are nothing extraordinary.  There are no extras.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo


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