To me, this movie is perfection.

Strictly average movie

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

I know everyone on this site hates this movie and I can completely understand why. With that being said I actually found this movie extremely entertaining in it's; so bad it's good category. Good old Stan loves creating superheroes and with his POW Entertainment company, Stan is taking his newer comic creations and bringing them to life via live action or through animation. The plot for this film is as cliché as it gets but if you are as big of a Stan Lee fan as I am, you won't care. Lightspeed lights up the screen with heroics, fighting against the Evil Python. Fans of Lees work will find this movie entertaining because it's so bad it's good.

Sean Connery's son Jason has an even worse track record for picking good movies. He stars as the eponymous protagonist in "Today You Die" director Don E. FauntLeRoy's execrable superhero saga "Stan Lee's Lightspeed" with Lee Majors and Nicole Eggert. Stan Lee must have collected a good paycheck for the Sci-Fi Channel to plaster his name all over this tedious tripe about a super hero who resembles the D.C. Comic's hero "The Flash" as well as Marvel Comic's "Quicksilver." This shoddy, shoe-string budget, made-for-cable actioneer is short on thrills and chills, and scenarist John Gray's screenplay regurgitates the same dull dialogue that you've heard ten-thousand times. Indeed, the cast could have done this lame, larger-than-life epic without rehearsing because they've used the same dialogue in so many films. Apparently, lenser/helmer Don E. FauntLeRoy took a break from directing Steven Seagal thrillers so that he could pick up a quick paycheck. He made this predictable potboiler between "Mercenary for Justice" and "Urban Justice." Jason Connery of "Casablanca Express" stars as the hero, Daniel Leight, a member of an elite government group called "Ghost Squad" headed up by Tanner (Lee Majors of "The Six-Million Dollar Man") that hunts down terrorists. When these heavily-armed guys hit the road, they cruise around in big, black, SUVs. Another member of the team is a pretty little thing named Beth (Nicole Eggert) who keeps her clothes on this time unlike she did in her television series "Baywatch" where she played Summer Quinn. Mind you, poor Nicole is around primarily to serve as a hostage later on for the villain to hold because he hates the hero.Daniel has a close scientist friend, Edward (Daniel Goddard), who has been laboring long and hard in his laboratory to use snake DNA to help regenerate skin for burn victims. A tragic car crash burned his girlfriend from head to toe and looks like the mummy in bandages at the hospital. Typically, as it is with these comic book style scientists, Edward uses himself as a guinea pig in his own experiments. When Daniel learns from Senator Paul Davis (James Jamison) that Congress is going to pull the plug on Edward's research, he pleads to let Davis allow him to break the bad news to Daniel. Daniel is so consumed with his research that he takes the news in the worse way possible and blames everybody when the government suits show up to wrap yellow DO NOT CROSS tape around his building. Edward refuses to take no for an answer. He breaks into his own building, destroys everything and in the process he turns himself into the reptilian Python who wears a hooded cloaked not unlike Dr. Doom from the "Fantastic Four" films. You can tell that the venerable Stan Lee plagiarized himself for his larger-than-life characters here, but they end up looking like caricatures of anything that he created in his prime at Marvel Comics. On the other hand, some Marvel Comics enthusiasts might cite Spider-Man's nemesis, The Lizard, as the model for Edward as Python. The Lizard been scrutinizing the regenerative properties of lizards as a cure for the loss of a limb. Anyway, Daniel turns up in the building at the same time that Edward destroys it and fights the villain who is covered in snake skin and likes to hiss. Meanwhile, the Ghost Squad arrives on the scene and pulls Daniel out of the rubble. Indeed, Daniel appears done for until Dr. Finlay (Michael Flynn of "Con Express") gets his medical mitts on him and replaces his crushed legs with titanium substitutes. Nevertheless, Daniel's chances of survival much less his future with the Ghost Squad looks in dire jeopardy. The fiendish Python tries to finish off our hero at the hospital when he gives him a super dose of radiation. Hmn, sounds like "Hulk?" Miraculously, the radiation doesn't kill Daniel. It helps him recover. As it turns out, Daniel can race around like nobody's business and so he takes the name of Lightspeed. Initially, Dr. Finlay is puzzled by those mysterious burns on Daniel's face. He believes that it is the side effects of the radiation. Daniel knows better and the next time he goes to an athletic store and has a stoner make up a suit of existing material that will protect him when he hauls ass around in an effort to save lives and stop the malignant Python from realizing his aims. Ultimately, the Python concocts a plan to blow Washington, D.C. to kingdom come that he calls 'Operation Firesky' as revenge for those dastards that cut his funding. Jason Connery lacks the charisma of his famous father and he brings nothing to the role of "Lightspeed." Moreover, he looks absolutely ridiculous as the hero in a blue suit racing around with bad special effects that provide little help. Daniel Goddard is only marginally better as the hopelessly misguided villain. Lee Majors delivers his lines without bumping into any walls and it takes the surprise finale to realize why he plays everything so straight. Nicole Eggert adds nothing to his farce. Save yourself 88 minutes of shame and pain and skip "Lightspeed." Although he served as one of the producers, Stan Lee must have realized when he saw the final product that a cameo was out of the question.

Python: my God he's evil. He batters cups of water out of people's hands.Following the titles, which left me wondering how much Stan Lee was involved in the character creation we open on a picture of a building by day.Suddenly flicking to night you wonder why we ever had the shot in daylight but wait someone is talking to Tanner (Lee Majors) and he's telling them they can't see his troops because no-one can.Given as we discover later his troops, "Ghost Squad", are infiltrating a building some distance away it's no surprise they cannot be seen. Ghost Squad itself and see them tooling up by the side of a busy street. Covert ops at its best.Python however disguises his snakey-ness with a hood. Great disguise (possibly the costume designer had fallen out with the actor – he also has some place he gets outsized black T-Shirts).Any way Ghost Squad's Daniel Fleight (Connery), a joke that isn't ever pulled off because you never really get to hear his full name, and his team get into the building to find all security dead. One body comes up the escalator and I was left wondering just how long it was given the fact everyone seemed very much dead.You do wonder why this, "crack", team are using night vision goggles in a brightly lit building but no fear because Daniel comes across Python and, shock, horror they know each other – although I'm sure Python called him "Vic"? Then as we watch the building be destroyed we find out why they know each other. Daniel seems, for no good reason to be a friend of the stupidest scientist going who gives himself a nasty burn on the arm before finding his snake skin tissue repair doesn't work.Daniel goes on to question why the lethargic looking snakes are not happy, looked fine to me, to be told that they are bred for aggression, physical strength and endurance. These the best snakes to use for skin grafts then? Who breeds snakes for aggression? The involvement goes further when we learn Pre-Python (Edward Bartlett) has a sister with horrific burns. We also discover he has been working for 5 years to perfect his treatment – has his sister been in the burns unit that long.Our hero calls his friend in the government to stop Bartlett's funding being cancelled only to be told it is being pulled. Daniel makes a vague attempt to reverse this decision (I'm still at a loss to see what job he was doing and how he joined Ghost Squad) and then tells Bartlett he tried all he can. Lliar.Bartlett's sister dies and he blames Daniel for pulling the funding, for no adequately explained reason. He then breaks into his lab – talks to his skin grafts (as you do) and then the lab catches fire (I couldn't really see how and it seemed that the whole lab was made of incendiary material anyhow). Bartlett becomes Python.I hope you're following because I'm lost.In the present Daniel survives and is taken to hospital where he's given a dangerous treatment of radiation and chemicals (even after they've put metal plates in his hip and leg – radiation!).Python tries to kill him in another impractical way, just shoot him in the head will you, but fails and in his stupidity creates Lightspeed , via montage.Back to the bad guys and Python who also proves he hates successful generals and kills one. He then goes on to warn the others round the table (where we see one of his squad who looks 14). Leaving them and talking to his brother, who the leaves, we cut to the silliest bit of the film where Python enters a pen with rabbits. It just looks like he's going to stroke them. Awww. Possibly there is a more gory cut here but I think it was just bad editing.Lightspeed gets his costume and looks like a downhill skier. It's also the point where you realise that spandex/lycra/whatever doesn't really hide the fact you're a bit podgy.We then have his first fight where even though he is really fast he allows a criminal to die and then finally (almost at the hour mark) we find out what Python is after. A weather machine he'll use to burn Washington.After this the film follows a painting by numbers sort of plot.Still there are some amusing moments as Ghost Squad shows their complete inability to do anything right. Tanner shows his "evil" side when he starts to drink on duty and Daniel disguises himself as a doctor to get out of hospital to put on his Lightspeed gear. Although he can super speed…yeah! One quick word for Python's henchmen who turn their backs on Ghost Squad allowing them to infiltrate through the main gate.We discover Tanner is working with Python (never explained and I think they'd have difficulty as I was wracking my brains to consider why) and end with a race against the clock which has as much tension as making a bowl of cereal.Direction is clunky and acting isn't much better, no-one is really wooden. The script writer should be sent on a course (unsure of what) as constantly things remain unexplained or are explained too much later in the movie. Unfortunately what Lightspeed starts as (a movie so bad it's funny) it fails to complete. I found myself hoping it would end.The music isn't bad for the piece and if anyone goes on to get further work I would hope it's the composer.

This was the worst movie I have seen on sci-fi and they are notorious for producing the worst movies ever.I cannot believe Stan lee put his name on this but after seeing who wants to be a superhero I now know.I will start with the plot. Flash meets Darkman nuff said, nothing original. Casting, our lead hero has a comb over and looks like he's pushing 50 plus. The henchman look like no-budget porn extras. And the effects were ridiculous, even the Flash TV series from 16 years ago had better effects. If this was made in the 1950's that would explain the really bad special effects. The story and dialog you can imagine is par with the rest of the production value. Okay the worst thing was our hero's costume, he goes to a sporting goods store and the salesman goes in the back and gets his suit, that's it. And it looks like a costume from a homemade comic book fan movie. I would say I liked the python character until his comical fight scenes.Watching QVC is more entertaining.