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For those outside the STATES
Superb product. Can be viewed on a PC outside Region 1. A good sampler if wanting to know more about HD TV. I believe this comment applies to all the other IMAX derived WMVHD discs. Also worth watching on the DVD version if you can view Region 1 NTSC DVD's. A pretty good deal even allowing for postage from the States.

the music is awful!
Terrible Music.... dumb movie but still fun to watch if you like this kinda scripts. For better music try The Living Sea music by Sting ...

A Definitive IMAX Experience
Okay, let's face it. This film came out before my time. I wasn't around in 1982 to see this when it premiered in big screen theatres. I only managed to catch wind of it thanks to an old DOS Educational program from Knowledge Adventure that featured the film itself. But ever since I was little, this film has never failed to capture my imagination.

It is definitely a great experience for those who can manage to catch it on an IMAX big screen as I had the chance to in May, (In fact, I think the Ontario Place Cinesphere in Toronto is the only theatre in the world still showing this film!) but this film DEFINITELY lives up to its title.

It is a rather short lived film (as most IMAX films are, due to the limitations of the format, around 40 minutes) with this particular title weighing in at around 30 minutes. For the time that it does last, the movie takes you through a whirlwind of information about the history of speed, some of its various uses, and how the technology has progressed today. Tie it off with a nice 2001: A Space Odyssey like sequence about travelling faster than light, and you have yourself a not so detailed, but fun introduction to various forms of speed. The film bases its success widely on the variety of shots that it uses from aerial cameras with the Blue Angel Precision Flying Squadron, to the front of a rollercoaster.

An overall good film, but more suited to children around ages 8 and up.

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