This wasn't that bad a movie although there were a couple of not possible's. Ships in space do not make externally audible noise, space is a vacuum and noise won't travel in it. Oh well. An interesting beginning to the whole show is when you learn that do to all the cyber crime that cash is the only monetary medium in use now. The plot of the movie has a nice twist when the robbers blow an asteroid so a chunk of it, on a carefully plotted course, will collide with the money ship. When the ship is intercepted by the bad guys the first to die is the captain, still in hibernation. The first robber to die is the stereotypical black man. Then we find out the ship's engineer is the traitor who gave the codes to the criminals. The leader is a stone cold killer and is married to a physcho thrill seeker. During the film the two goodun's get outside in a shuttle, the wife comes after them and gets shot up by the transports auto defenses. She crashes into a bay where it just so happens the turncoat is working to fix a gantry problem. So now there are two goods and one bad. They work together to avoid the asteroid just in the nick of time. Then the engineer shoots the bad guy and there seems to be a standoff between the last two. As the film ends there is a news broadcast saying the mining colony has been bought by someone wishing to remain anonymous and is going to clean the dirty deeds that have been going on. The viewer is left to interpret that as the two survivors kept the $40 billion and are using it for good, kind of, maybe, almost.

When the Sci-Fi Channel started running promos for Velocity Trap, it was touted as being from "...the director of Interceptor Force and Interceptor Force 2...". Those were insufferably bad, and this one wasn't disappointing in that respect. Phillip J. Roth is living proof that there is no limit to the extent that incompetence can be put on public display provided the perpetrator has no sense of shame and the ability to continue conning investors into supplying the funds. If Mr. Roth ever collaborates with William Shatner on a project, I think I'll find a doctor to put out my eyes and sew my ears shut before it has a chance of reaching me. The Three Stooges and "professional" wrestling are no longer the nadir on my personal scale of popular culture.

This film is bearable but that's about it, similar to a good TV ep of "Space: Above and Beyond". It's a step up from the sci-fi gagger "Escape Velocity", which had even less action and more cliches. FF through all scenes of him with his girl friend, it's banal drivel, and that part isn't even tied up at the end. And forget the plot holes too. -Bob

Weak story, weak writing and poor acting. The only good thing I can say about this film is that it had mediocre special effects.