 It eventually earned about $16.5 million in ticket sales, making it a box office flop compared to its $50 million budget.It received mostly negative reviews by critics; it has a 20% positive scale on the ratings aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 25 reviews.Owen Gleiberman opined that ""Terminal Velocity" is the kind of movie in which the hero keeps sneaking into rooms to peek into some file and you wait, with glum certitude, for yet another ”surprise” thug to leap out of the shadows.