Termination Point (2008)

Termination Point (2008) is a film about vortexes, and the danger that lies within them. It stars Lou Diamond Phillips as a "scientist" and Jason Priestley as a chill policeman.

In this film, Lou Diamond has developed a teleportation device that takes you into "nullspace," the land of perpetual lightning bolts. This space is a dimension between worlds. The first world is 29 Palms, California, and the second world is somehow worse.

This film also stars Ethan Hawke, as a gangster with a fetish for mentally-challenged blonde girls. I couldn't blame him, and neither could his partner, a fellow terrorist hired by a rogue agent to stop Lou Diamond from teleporting a plane. This proved difficult, as Lou Diamond is a resiliant teleporter.

Meanwhile, Jason Priestley is raiding Wal-Marts to look for a security box filled with blackberry teleporters. He is slowed down by double agents double fisting guns, but that doesn't stop him entirely, because he succeeds. Turns out it was in a piggy bank all along! What a dumbass.

The sky vortex also shoots lasers, capable of vaporizing hillbillies and their sports utility vehicles. What a shame. It is expanding from the size of a department store to the size of the universe. The whole of suburban America is at stake.


Also, a plane travels back in time, to minutes prior to the present -- a great use of time-traveling technology. This allows Jason Priestly to send a vital text message showing Lou Diamond looking angry, and thereby saving the world. He is able to enjoy his Mexican vacation in peace, leaving room for a sequel.


There is also a turncoat agent, fresh out of high school, and Jason Priestly wears a Hawaiian shirt for most of the movie. This satisfied me, because it lessened the tension as he shot through a suburban strip mall. This film had a great mix of action and science, showing the real life of time-traveling Boeings in space.

This film terminates at the exact point I wished it would, at the ending. It was well-paced, and Ethan Hawke played a convincing terrorist, though it may have been just his stunt double from Before Sunrise. I give this film "Five Stars," the maximum amount of stars I can give. Unless you live in null-space, you have no excuse to miss this film. "Five Stars!"