Government agent Daniel Leight has his radiation treatments sabotaged. He soon finds that he can now move at super speeds but only by risking metabolic damage which could prove to be fatal. 'Lightspeed' must now use his powers to go after old friend turned terrorist who is now a mutant half-snake called Python.
Practical Effects
Python's half-snake costume: peak early-2000s latex nightmare.
Acting
Lee Majors collects paycheck, delivers gravitas he didn't owe this film.
Director
Don E. FauntLeRoy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Stan Lee's name is plastered all over marketing, but he only received a 'based on characters by' credit — this was part of his disastrous POW! Entertainment deal that produced multiple direct-to-TV flops.
Released the same year as X-Men: The Last Stand, this is what superhero media looked like when studios mined every B-list property before the MCU proved quality mattered.
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