Product Details

• Actors: James Sikking, Hector Elizondo, Madolyn Smith Osborne, Kevin McCarthy, Cameo Kneuer
• Directors: Eric Steven Stahl
• Writers: Eric Steven Stahl, Gerald Laurence
• Producers: Eric Steven Stahl, Michael Waeghe
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Lions Gate
• VHS Release Date: July 8, 1992
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302413222
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #184,652 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Little-Known Experimental Film, March 17, 2002

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Reticuli (Las Vegas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Final Approach [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is the first all digital sound film ever made, originally developed as just a test bed for new digital sampling, editing, and ADR technologies; it developed into a psychological film with surprisingly good acting. Everything about it actually gets better and better the further in you get. By the time we're at the scenes with his wife and the bathtub, the directing of the actors is spot-on realistic. The radio chatter is probably the most authentic of its type you'll ever hear, including references to the Tonopah Test Site where stealth tests have actually taken place. There's probably more high quality SR-71 stock footage in this than any other tape you'll find. My only complaint is that some of the ADR cockpit stuff is for a pilot who obviously doesn't look like the actor. But that's something that can be overlooked on an experimental film with such a small budget. There have since been other films that have used the same general story concept, but with a different framework, including a non-scifi French film that came out the year after this one did. While some have said that one is a bit subtler, I'd still have to say Final Approach is even more of the art house picture. The recent big budget incarnations of this concept, in my opinion, have just been horrible. It's too bad this film might never get released on nonrental DVD...

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Xavier, October 23, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Final Approach [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Excellent -and mostly unknown- psychological movie. A wonderful tale of the deep and challenging interaction between a man who has something enormous to realise about his life, and the man who is going to help him realise it.
When released in theaters, the Final Approach was completely mis-positionned, as it was presented as a basic action / FX movie, which it is really not.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW, April 30, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Final Approach [VHS] (VHS Tape)

If you are looking for a Techno-Thriller, Some intense Action or something of the like then do not bother with this film. If you are looking for something cerebral, intelligent, mind bending or otherwise Unlike any other movie you have ever seen then this is it! The sound is Awesome, the low level flight scenes are incredible and the plot takes you on a ride like no other. I would be remiss if I did not say the acting was solid. Do you like a movie where the actor makes the film, not the $20 Million dollar FX, then this is it, and it also has the FX. Unfortunatly I cant say too much about the movie, That might give too much away. Just know that this is a thinking persons movie, it has very deep yet subtle hints during the course of the movie. If you cant think for yourself then keep away, you will not understand it and will not enjoy it.