'Speed Kills' just didn't work on most levels for me and most people it seems, and this is being said with regret not malice. It is another one of those films that is not irredeemably bad and there is always a real conscious effort to see the good in the bad. Keywords:Speed Kills (2018) DPStream Speed Kills (2018) Filmzenstream Speed Kills (2018) HDS streaming Speed Kills (2018) K Streaming Speed Kills (2018) Streamcomplet Autres Films a Regarder HD.
This film is based on the true story of Don Aronow (changed to Ben Aronoff in this film), of which I've never heard of until after seeing this film. At first I thought 'why John Travolta?' But after Googling Donald Aronow, I see the uncanny resemblance. I'm a fan of films based on true stories, and I enjoyed learning something new, especially about the beginnings of the cigarette boat racing industry. Where this film failed miserably was in hiring amateur director Jodi Scurfield of whom this is his?/her? First ever film directed.
Was Jodi one of the 25+ executive producers significant other or child? This films editing was one of the worst I've seen in a while. Then there's the writing; you would think at least one of the five writers could have re-read the screenplay and see how hacked it was. The were many jumpy plot issues and omissions. I feel certain scenes needed more relevance to what was happening or how/why they happened.
The 102 min length felt much longer due to the slow pacing contributed by the bad editing and sloppy directing. The SFX during the storm was 1980's technology. The cinematography was adequate, as was the score. The cast however all provided decent performances, considering the director probably had no input during scenes of their performances. It showed from the flat and unconvincing relationships of Travolta's two wives and children. I'm disappointed that of the 25+ producers, no one made the effort to hire professional filmmakers to make this film way better.
This story had much potential. I know this film will get bad ratings due to all the negative reasons I've stated above, but oddly enough, I still enjoyed it and liked learning something new and interesting from this film's base of a true story. If you can look past the flaws, you might enjoy it as well. A generous 6/10 from me, only for the base story and the cast's performances. Actually was intrigued by the idea for the story, not an original one but intriguing, and have nothing against John Travolta, though it has been a while since he has given a good performance or made a good film. No bias or bigotry against him and his personal life and choices have absolutely no bearing on my opinions of his performances and films (that has never been the case for anybody or any film) and never have done. 'Speed Kills' just didn't work on most levels for me and most people it seems, and this is being said with regret not malice.
It is another one of those films that is not irredeemably bad and there is always a real conscious effort to see the good in the bad. 'Speed Kills' though is also another film that has its good points far outweighed by the bad things, there is little good here and the flaws are big rather than marginal. The scenery was quite nice, but that is pretty much the only praise that could be given from personal opinion. None of the performances work, in general the acting had a very under-rehearsed vibe while Travolta over-compensates in his role with some off-putting facial expressions that border on unintentionally funny.
None of the characters are remotely interesting, little more than undeveloped stereotypes with little personality, very flat character relationships, no interesting or distinct character traits and irritating ways of behaving and decision-making. The direction felt practically non-existent. Other than the scenery, the production values lack slickness and look rather drab and like they were made in haste. A feeling most betrayed by some very haphazard editing that lacks any kind of organisation. The soundtrack is unmemorable at best and the script is so cheesy watching it with a straight face is impossible and that is when it is comprehensible. From a story, structure and pace point of view, 'Speed Kills' is a mess. There is no excitement, let alone tension or suspense whatsoever.
Structurally, the story just jumps about and constantly feels like there are parts missing that were meant to be there, so the flow is always choppy. And the pace is very pedestrian with many parts dragging, making a film that wasn't that long feel twice as long to the extent it felt there was nowhere near enough story to sustain the length. All in all, the scenery aside a poorly done film. 2/10 Bethany Cox. This is a bizarre movie. It starts out with crazy intensity between Old John Travolta and Old Other Guy who ends up standing menacingly by his truck just staring at him. Then it goes back in time.
Travolta is in trouble with the mob and has to get his family out of town. So he goes to Florida. Immediately gets super involved in speedboat racing for some reason?
People watching and clapping and him getting hooked right away are kind of ridiculous, especially if Travolta's supposed to be on the run - why enter and win a bunch of boat races and get that kind of attention? But I guess it's OK because this hood fresh in town gets the OK from Meyer Lansky himself, for some reason. Lots more pointless boat racing. He cheats on his wife for like a decade and she knows but does nothing about it I guess.
His son goes in the hospital while he's off winning one of his races. His boat racing gets in the way of his mob duties and Meyer gets mad at him. It's so bizarre and Travolta LOOKS so bizarre in his various ages in this movie but it at least kept our attention. Until we turned it off.
In the 1960s Ben Aronoff (John Travolta) goes to Miami in an attempt to branch out on his own away from the Jersey mob. He falls in love with speed boats and manufactures them.
He becomes world famous as a speedboat racer and manufacturer. The mob wants a piece of the action which leads to his downfall.the opening teaser scene. The film was not well constructed or edited. There were numerous plot holes the viewer had to fill in. The acting was decent, but the script was too bad for them to save. Loosely based on the life of Don Aronow.
Guide: F-word, sex. Ben Aronoff was the son of an immigrant from Sheepshead Bay. He attended school at Brooklyn College and worked briefly as a gym teacher. He had a run of commercial success in a New Jersey construction company, before going bust and trying to make a fresh start in Miami. It was in Florida that he discovered his true passion in speed boat racing. This film is a chronicle of a kid with a dream, the joy he found in building and racing boats, and his fall from grace when his life become enmeshed in the world of crime.
The film was based on the true story of Don Aronow, whose name has been slightly changed in the screenplay. John Travolta makes the film worth a view for his portrait of the likable yet gullible addict to boat racing, power, money, and women. While the production values were good, especially the boat racing sequences, the film artists failed to age Travolta properly. The action of the film extended from the mid-1960s to the late 1980s, yet Travolta looked the same age throughout the film. The same problem persisted for the treatment of the character of Meyer Lansky, who died at age 81, yet never appeared to be more than 50 in the film. Ben Aronoff is described in the film as contractor, entrepreneur, husband, and father.
As portrayed by Travolta, he had an insatiable appetite for the thrills involved in high-speed boat racing. Unfortunately, the film never made it clear why Aronoff would ever get himself involved with Meyer Lansky and other figures of organized crime. He was not personally involved in drug trafficking, and any criminal activity appears to be the result of coercion by thugs from the underworld. In one land transaction, he was beaten up and held at gunpoint to sign the deed. He should have been working with the authorities during their investigation of Lansky and his shady nephew, Robbie Reemer. Aronoff had skills as an inventor in his dynamic boat designs that even appealed to George H.
Bush, who apparently was involved in boat transactions with Aronoff's sleek racing boat called the 'Cigarette.' Bush '41 had a long history with boats that may have gone back to the 1950s and '60s fifties in his stewardship of the Zapata Off-Short Company. Russ Baker's book 'Family of Secrets' demonstrates how the story of 'Pappy' Bush ties directly into the themes of this film, plus the arcane world of American intelligence. 'Speed Kills' is a genuinely American story, one of rise-and-fall of a hustler and the ultimate tragedy of an energetic man in pursuit of the American Dream.
A mob-linked big-league contractor moves to Florida, falls in love with boat racing, but ultimately cannot escape his past because he makes many bad choices. We know there's no happy ending because the film starts with John Travolta getting shot to death.
The film has the incongruence of real life events that it is based on, as well as the mix of excitement and boring stretches. However, this is one of those situations where good film making departs from the literal, and hones the story to make it spellbinding. Here the scripting and directing fell short of that, despite passable attempts by the actors to fill in the story of a man who deserts his family for boat racing, makes a new family, and ultimately is haunted by his past when he is forced by bad business deals to come back to the fold of his mob connections. The film is an interesting 1960s to 1980s period piece, but it simply falls short on the quality of the storytelling, often being quite boring or having elements that do not move the story along and could have been cut. Nice try, but no cigar!
Wealthy speedboat racer Ben Aranoff leads a double life that gets him into trouble with both law enforcement and drug lords. Speed Kills is another straight to DVD release starring Travolta that had no reason to have been made at all. The cover states that it's 'The Wolf Of Wall Street on water' and has Travolta leering at you like Michael Myers with his destroyed face. It's not a terrible film, well it is, but Travolta makes it watchable. Even though his face looks like a weather ravaged, fire burnt apricot, he still has that swagger that has made him an icon for over forty years.
Loosely based on a true story, the film basically tells you that you can't run away from your past, which is ironic because one of the first people you see in this film is Tom Sizemore, and my word, he really looks like he has no idea what he is doing in his two minutes of screentime. His dialogue is bizarre to say the least, and as soon as he enters the film, he leaves, without explanation. A truly worthless role from someone who had so much worth at one point. Once the film turns to the racing, we are treated to some terrible CG water, and Kellan Lutz looking like a hulked out Noel Edmonds threatening Travolta like a petty schoolboy. It's trash, but watchable trash, making it a sobering thought that Travolta was once Hollywood gold, and had a wonderful resurgence thanks to Pulp Fiction, when for four years, any film he starred in made oodles of money. Even Michael and Phenomenon.
We can never take that away from him, because he is John Travolta, and he knows he'll always be an icon, and people will always watch his films. A bit selfish if you ask me.
There are probably worse movies in the world, I just haven't seen them.The story line, cinematography, characters, even the props & extras were disasterous. Im not a betting man. But, I'd put the over/under on filming, at about 6 days. This was clearly shot on an 2004 Nokia flip phone, with a peanut butter smear over the lense. Travolta's hair looks like that black hair spray (AS SEEN ON TV) tried to sell for balding men in the mid-90's.
Just an overall flop, from start to finish.Please take into consideration, the average lifespan of a human in 2019. Don't waste an hour and a half of it on this disaster.
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