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.
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Even though I didn't really care for this movie, I'm shocked that it has a rating of 3.The people who rated this must usually only watch the greatest movies ever made because the average movie I see is much worse. My only real problem with this movie is that it was very predictable.I saw everything coming, including the end.I also didn't care for the love story angle.Why does every movie have to have a love story? It's really strange that Treat Williams is billed as the star because he literally has the smallest part in the movie.When he finally shows up, an hour in, he tries to make a bunch of jokes and some of them are actually funny.Up until he gets there we are treated to a very stereotypical opening where a bunch of self-consumed, spoiled people somehow all end up on the same chartered flight.Of course it crashes and it wouldn't be a movie if they didn't all split up.It's really not bad for this type of movie.I give it five stars.
CRASH POINT ZERO is a no-budget mountain adventure flick from that purveyor of Z-grade entertainment, Jim Wynorski. Most viewers watching this will I imagine be checking out the liberal stealing of footage from no less than three movies: CLIFFHANGER, NARROW MARGIN, and most notably, THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT, from which almost the entire climax is ripped off.The story itself is a rip-off of CLIFFHANGER, except with more extraneous characters and less style. The McGuffin is something called the 'Tesla ray', an extraordinarily powerful weapon of war which everybody is trying to get their hands on. Plot points include a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness, Treat Williams acting tough, and more over the top theatrics from the supporting cast than you can shake a stick at. Needless to say this is a complete waste of time for the genuine movie fan and only fans of really bad movies need apply.
I really don't see why this film gets such sour ratings. This is a low-budget effort, not a mainstream action blockbuster to win over legions. Yes, it uses footage from the Stallone movie "Cliffhanger". This is no secret and was done with legal permission. The director (Jim Wynorski under an alias) was given permission from someone at Columbia Pictures to use the "Cliffhanger" footage, actually that guy and his wife are in Extreme Limits. If you haven't seen Cliffhanger (not that great anyways) you wouldn't notice the footage is from that movie. It's solid footage and wouldn't have been able to film similar original footage with the low-budget allocated for Extreme Limits.I liked the Tesla Death Ray-Tungusta scenario used throughout the plot. It is cheesy to a certain extent, yet it works well as a sci-fi offshoot. As an action film this is above average, especially if you like Jim Wynorski's unique style. I enjoyed it.
i was shocked by the this very very very bad movie, i can't believe fox video was not ashamed to release it. people complain that Christian films like Time Changer have bad acting (which it didn't), but this, this was just bad! a group of second graders could do a better job at acting. not to mention the horrible dialogs, who ever wrote the script should be fired. i was rolling on the floor laughing till my sides hurt because it was that bad. the directors obviously had a very low budget since half the scenes, which were suppose to be all different where all in the same location and they didn't try to hide that. oh, and did i mention how bad the acting was? so, in conclusion, if you want to laugh at hell-y-wood for making cheesy films, this is the one! i promise you your sides will hurt because you'll be laughing soooooo hard!ps. the acting was bad