Crash Point Zero (2000)

Director:

Jim Wynorski

Writer:

Steve Latshaw (writer)

Genre:

Action | Adventure

Tagline:

The struggle for survival starts now...

Plot:

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.

Plot Keywords:

Nicola Tesla | Helicopter | Plane Crash | Bear | Train

Cast

Treat Williams	...	Agent Jason Ross
Hannes Jaenicke	...	Julian Beck
Gary Hudson	...	Capt. Ed Lorenzo
John Beck	...	Dr. Maurice Hunter
Julie St. Claire	...	Nadia Hunter
Ava Fabian	...	Jessica Martin
Steve Franken	...	Stuart Elliott
Susan Blakely	...	Barbara Esmond
Lorissa McComas	...	Wendy Yates
J. Patrick McCormack	...	Bob Yates
Bridget Butler	...	Claudine de Laar
John Putch	...	George
Allan Kolman	...	Peter
Richard Riehle	...	Alan Douglas
Sean Kanan	...	Don Spengler

Also Known As:

Extreme Limits (USA) (DVD title)
Final Crash (Europe: English title)

MPAA:

Rated R for some violence.

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Germany:16 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Bishop, California, USA

Trivia:

Some of the action sequences of this picture had been taken at least from another 3 action films: The crash plane is from Cliffhanger (1993), helicopter and car chase from Narrow Margin (1990) and the final action sequence (truck crash and the bridge explosion) are from The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996).

Movie Connections:

Edited from Narrow Margin (1990)

Pointless Zero

The number of goofs in this movie almost had me laughing.

The fantastic doomsday device is "Tesla's Death Ray." In this movie, the device consists of some electrical apparatus and a set of headphones, which is crammed into a wooden box that can fit under an airline seat. After Tesla journeyed to a remote part of Siberia in 1908, to test his death ray, he found its destructive potential is so great that Tesla never spoke of it again, so say the characters in this movie.

Despite a wealth of information available about Tesla's inventions and his notes, the makers of this movie plod onward with this fantastic device and numerous goofs. A geiger counter is used to track down Tesla's electrical device, earphones are used to control and direct its destructive force, Tesla installed a self-destruct mechanism but hid the device in a cave, and Tesla tested the device on "the 13th day of June in the year of our Lord, 1908."

Unfortunately, the Tunguska explosion occurred on June 30th, 1908, (not the 13th). Anyone expecting any facts about Tesla, his death ray, or the Tunguska explosion should look elsewhere. This hodge-podge doomsday device is the only excuse for what follows, and with the exception of "Bongo the Bear," I must rate this movie a pointless zero, (no stars).