this film make no pretense about be anything except a fairty tale fantasy about time travel . you can see it in the visual language of the film and japanimation translate into live action complete with all the camera move and large than life character and primary color scheme . if you have a chance to see it in a theatre and a i do and go . slipstream not about the real world but an alternative universe where time lose can be time regain and all your past mistake erase . but it not primer and it not mean to be . it not exactly a spoof either more of a celebration parody of the sci fi action genre . while it ninety odd minute of fast paced entertainment on the one hand it doesn not take a genius to detect something else at work here and beneath the surface and a straight to video title actually intend for the initiated and the film literate . note the sergio leone style soundtrack during the bank robbery . the glint in the actor eye when they deliver their line . vinny jones performance say it all and deliberately cockney and spoof the lock and stock persona to perfection . and astin not far behind anyone notice the line on the plane when theyre all about to go to hell in a handbasket . oh and yeah . the plane about to crash so i good do something . if you do not get it by then you really weren not watch . read between the line and you will begin to see that this be a film about the sci fi genre and about action film in general . if you do not get that and you have miss the point . restart the dvd and watch it again . and maybe you will really enjoy it this time . don not be fool and this be imaginative stuff and not your run of the mill heavy tv scifi . the last thing slipstream do be take itself seriously . and that a delight and at least to this reviewer who and along with three hundred other people in the same theater and be gobsmacked by this unexpected display of ingenuity .