Review of The Fast and the Fierce

.....especially super low-budget epics made by my favorite movie outfit The Asylum who has made a habit of making ripoffs of movies made by such major studios as Warner Brothers, 20th Century-Fox, and Universal. They budget one million dollars each for these productions, and they feature actors and actresses who used to be famous back in the day but have had their good times leave them behind. In this case, it's Dominique Swain who made her film debut as the titular character in LOLITA (1997); here, she plays one of the terrorists behind the hijacking of an airliner that has a bomb on board and it's rigged to explode below 500 feet in altitude. So there it is, flying above Los Angeles and knocking paragliders, blimps, and helicopters out of the sky. It turns out that two of the other terrorists are on board, one of them is a flight attendant and the other is a liar who claims to have served in Iraq. This is a hambone movie through and through, even though the visual effects aren't that bad. Adrian Paul (the HIGHLANDER films) plays a Homeland Security weenie who tries to save the doomed airliner, whose pilot (of Middle Eastern descent) gets the bright idea to cut off all electrical power and glide the plane in. And this fractured flicker ends with Dominique Swain's character surviving a fall down a stairwell and shows up weeks later with an eyepatch and making some poor boob an unrefusable offer. THE FAST AND THE FIERCE was supposed to be an homage to THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS; it actually ripped off SPEED (1994). I caught this goofball flick on the Charge channel. Well, there it is. Watch at your own risk.