Thomas M. Sipos 2008-09-12

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

The production values are really low on these two (apparently) TV movies. These films share much of the same production team, cast, and even sets and furniture. They seem to have been shot back to back.

I think WARP SPEED is the better film. It's about astronauts aboard a spaceship, going to Saturn, which is damaged so there's not enough fuel for all of them to survive. So they must decide who will voluntarily die.

This premise has often been used in sci-fi. It was used in the old STAR TREK, where Spock insisted that he could select the person to die more logically than by drawing straws.

It was also the premise behind TRAPPED IN SPACE, a 1990 (I think) made for cable movie, starring Kay Lenz. However, TRAPPED IN SPACE is better than WARP SPEED.

I bought WARP SPEED because THE VISITOR (Italian 1979) is one of my favorite horror films (a guilty pleasure), and it starred Joanne Nail, who is also in WARP SPEED. Nail hasn't worked in many films, so I was curious to see more of her work.

She was okay, but better in THE VISITOR. The overall acting is pretty poor in WARP SPEED. The sets and costumes are also ridiculous. The actors don't look or behave like professional astronauts. They have longish 1970s hair; the women wear makeup. They carp at each other like unruly high school kids.

But if you're not expecting intelligent sci-fi (this is no 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY or GATTICA), this is a decent time-killer.

There's a psychic trying to learn how these astronauts died, but she wasn't the story's main focus.

TIME WARP is a much worse film. I disagree with the reviewer who said it was like a TWILIGHT ZONE story. It might have been, properly handled. But TIME WARP is marred by stupid, heavy-handed "humor."

The wacky, slovenly astronaut. His wacky, computer sidekick. Adam West's (who played a NASA officer) hammy leering at the astronaut's wife.

All the acting is overplayed, hammy, and NOT FUNNY.

Still, these films are cheap. They're stupid fun, sort of. If you're not expecting much, you may enjoy them.

Annie Van Auken 2008-08-17

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:

A better name for this two-fer is "The Adam West TV Movie Double Feature." Yes, our favorite campy Batman appears in both of these minor sci-fi works.

In WARP SPEED, he's the captain of a missing spaceship that's later found with no crew aboard.
CAST NOTES: Also featured are Cameron Mitchell's adult kids, Camille and Cam Junior. Camille plays a psychic who's asked to determine just where everyone disappeared to. It's a good premise, but poorly executed.

TIME WARP is somewhat better. The plot of this Twilight Zone-ish tale will at least hold your interest.
CAST NOTES: Peter Kastner starred in the legendary but short-lived ABC-TV sitcom, THE UGLIEST GIRL IN TOWN (1968).
Barry Gordon, who appears in both these movies, made his screen debut as a paperboy, in THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT (1956), with Jayne Mansfield.


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Parenthetical numbers preceding titles are 1 to 10 viewer poll ratings found at a film resource website.

(5.9) Time Warp (TV-1981) - Adam West/Chip Johnson/Gretchen Corbett/Peter Kastner/Barry Gordon

(3.8) Warp Speed (TV-1981) - Adam West/Camille Mitchell/David Chandler/Cameron Mitchell Jr./Barry Gordon

Luciano Q 2008-03-14

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

I am a time travel fan and bought this one for my collection, but what a deception! The script, the acting and the directing is as its worse! The only good thing I can say about this movie is that it can be used as a teaching tool to learn what not to do in all aspects of movie making and acting. Although it is a 1986 movie, I think that a couple of teenagers could have done something better with a home movie camera in the 60's! That's how bad it is. I seldom stop seeing a movie, but I got so desperate with this one that I could not go past the first 20 minutes, and I think that was more than enough. The dialogue is mediocre, the acting is as its worst, the "special effects" (if they can be called that) are of the worst kind. I won't even try to begin watching the other one. In summary, this movie is not worth your time nor your money.