"Lightspeed" is Not One of Stan Lee's Best Comic Book Movies

"Lightspeed" is from the comic book genius who gave us characters like Spiderman, The Fantastic Four, and X-Men: Stan Lee. As a rule I like movies that follow the comic book tradition. There is something comforting about being able to believe that there are, at least in our fantasies, still heroes in world. We certainly don't find many of them today, where people seem more intent on tearing each other apart than in trying to build each other up.

While the Spiderman and X-Men movies have proven to be both financially lucrative as well as popular with the fans, other comic book movies like The Incredible Hulk and Fantastic Four fall flat on both counts. I would like to say that Lee's newest film "Lightspeed" fell into the former category, but the truth is that it doesn't even make the cut of the latter. This can't even be called a B film. I'm afraid it barely makes it into the C category. That's not to say that everything about this movie is bad because it truly isn't. But there is too much about it that just isn't good.