Best movie of this year hands down!

I love this movie so much

I wanted to but couldn't!

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

This is one of those really oddball, strange films that is so weird but so entertaining at the same time that I tend to enjoy it type of movies.Mark Hamill is Tasker and is looking really good in this film - he's sorta a good-bad guy character, good "cop" but has a really wide bad streak in him - he doesn't see how good Byron really is, all he knows is to bring him in for murder.Bob Peck is Byron. Byron is an android and he's wanted for murder - but there is more to that than meets the eye. Byron reminds me so much of Star Trek's Data when he started his dancing - I had to laugh.Bill Paxton is an outlaw type that turns out to be a really good guy with a heart of gold. He reminds me of a comical version of Jim Morrison in this film for some strange reason - maybe it's the hair? Ha-Ha-Ha.Overall I was very entertained by this film. I found it a nice surprise in the Sci-Fi Invasion 50-Pack Films.7/10

I see the poor reviews and I can only think the reviewers were just looking for action and not substance. Yes the film is uneven, yes Mark Hamill is not very good as the over the top cop but there are several aspects that I think this worthwhile movie to watch. First you see a devastated earth that basically has no real power except for the super winds called the slipstream. People fly on this to get from place to place. Bob Peck is great as what turns out to be an android (Byron) accused of murder. He is being chased by Hamill and his female partner. Then Bill Paxton steps as a free lance of who knows what and grabs Byron. Still pursued by Hamill and friend they end up first at a site that has been attacked by I am not sure what and then at a secure place where some elitists have holed up with priceless works of art and I guess a deep wine cellar. They even have servants to wait on them. Any way Paxton manages to hook up with the partner, the android flies Hamill into a rock hill, the android survives and returns to the enclave to help out. There is the conundrum brought to the bear about artificial intelligence and the ethos involved with it.

I was lucky to see this in the theater in Japan. The title it was given was Kaze no Wakusei, which means Planet of the Wind. This was very interesting to me because I was very interested in Dune which was titled Suna no Wakusei in Japan, which means the Planet of the Sand. Since this was also a science fiction film, I thought it was some how related just a tiny bit. So I was very excited sitting in the theater waiting for it to start, expecting an unofficial sequel to Dune. This film was nothing like Dune, instead we basically get a film where the main characters are being chased by two ruthless bounty hunters. There were many memorable scenes in this film that still swarm in my imagination, perhaps because it's like a story I would expect to read in Heavy Metal magazine. The main character is like a fast talking con man, and it made me angry to see him flirt with the female bounty hunter. Mark Hamill does a great job as the ruthless male bounty hunter and the poison dart guns and use of antidotes was brilliant. The aircraft is very memorable, the kite scene was really bizarre but cool, the scene where a whole family is in the giant hot tub scene was a bit disturbing but once again another memorable scene. I really liked the scenes where they were flying through the valleys, for some reason I kept associating this film with the Orinoco Flow song from Enya, maybe in Japan they had the trailer with that song and it fit like a glove for me. The story kind of drastically changes when they arrive to the underground society, and then it comes to a rather abrupt ending which is definitely not the normal Hollywood formula. I like that this film isn't super violent, filled with gore. Seems to have a nomadic feel to it, I think the way it does it's cinema story telling is a success, and very underrated. Because the main character isn't the toughest guy in the film, I kind of see parallels to Ralph Fiennes character in Strange Days. I have to say that I enjoyed this film more than Strange Days, which is another very interesting sci-fi film.

The first time I saw Slipstream, it was one of those all night movie binges that I and a handful of friends had on regular occasions during our final year of high school. We'd passed all the important stuff, and took the opportunity to unwind, with B-movie greatness! I admit, I don't remember the first viewing that well, I was half asleep around 3am in the morning, but something about it stuck with me and it became a target the next time I went to the rental store. It's been a guilty pleasure of mine ever since.It's not the best, but it's a good romp through a very different Earth of the future, with a group of unlikely heroes and a very memorable adversary in Mark Hamill, and he's not using the Force folks, he packs a very big gun in this one! Hamill's by-the-book cop, and Bill Paxton's, fly by the seat of your pants pilot, looking to make the "Big Score", make great rivals. Throw in a joyride through a well shot landscape of varying future cultures and a mix of strange religions and hidden recluses, and it's well worth a watch on a rainy afternoon.The idea for the film seemed pretty well thought out, it's just that it came out at a time when anyone and everyone could get money to do a film, but maybe not quite enough to do it justice. I'd like to have seen what a bigger budget could've done, because Slipstream had potential. Would've been nice to see a bit more of the world, and maybe some more background material, but what you get does a good enough job of getting the "feel" of the movie across. My only sticky point would be the rather cut-short ending, but it's still a favorite and has a place on my DVD rack as long as it wants it!