This rip-roaring action movie is great fun if you don't engage your brain
Stealth (2005)
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Reviews Counted:136
Fresh:18
Rotten:118
Average Rating:3.8/10
Consensus: Loud, preposterous, and predictable, Stealth borrows heavily and unsucessfully from Top Gun and 2001.
Runtime: 2 hrs 1 min
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: This high-action flight movie centers on a team of three sexy stealth bomber pilots who are forced to fly with EDI (Extreme Deep Invader), a computer-manned prototype plane that specializes in... This high-action flight movie centers on a team of three sexy stealth bomber pilots who are forced to fly with EDI (Extreme Deep Invader), a computer-manned prototype plane that specializes in extra-precision bombing. The brainchild of a Bill Gates-esque wunderkind (Richard Roxburgh), EDI has the ability to learn at a fantastic rate, talks like HAL from 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY, and likes to listen to hard rock before going into combat. Before long, a freak accident causes it to question authority and launch an attack on Russia. W.D. Richter's script probes big issues involving man, machine, and the nuclear fate of the free world (Read: DR. STRANGELOVE meets THE TERMINATOR). But this is also an action thrill ride from Rob Cohen--the man responsible for THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS and XXX--replete with some truly tremendous explosions and speeds that outdo any mph records set in Cohen's past ouevre. Jessica Biel (TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE) is tough and surprisingly believable as the token female fighter pilot, while Jamie Foxx (RAY) makes a fine wingman to the daredevil squadron leader played by Josh Lucas. Sam Shephard (THE RIGHT STUFF) is their commanding officer, with Joe Morton playing a shady politician. [More]
Starring: Joshua Lucas, Jessica Biel, Jamie Foxx, Sam Shepard
Starring: Joshua Lucas, Jessica Biel, Jamie Foxx, Sam Shepard, Joe Morton, Richard Roxburgh
Director: Rob Cohen
Director: Rob Cohen
Screenwriter: W.D. Richter
Producer: Laura Ziskin, Mike Medavoy, Neal H. Moritz
Composer: BT, Randy Edelman
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Reviews for Stealth
Full of explosive mayhem and pulse-quickening aerial combat, this high-flying action romp offers polished, if derivative entertainment.
For at least the first hour, Stealth is a SAEBCPSOS (Shockingly and Excruciatingly Boring Columbia Pictures Sack of S---).
Overlong, disjointed, and rarely compelling, Stealth has the capacity to put viewers into a catatonic state.
Stealth is flimsy and forgettable, but it does have a few worthy action and special-effects sequences.
Daisy, Daisy I'll blow you out of the sky / I'm half crazy, seen Top Gun too many times...a plumb guilty pleasure.
Neither entertaining nor exciting, the dumb and noisy Stealth will hopefully live up to its name by fading quietly from movie theaters.
I know I'm your agent, babe, but I gotta come clean with you — maybe picking Stealth as your first movie after Ray wasn't a very good idea.
Recycled Top Gun thrills with three hot-shot pilots and a rogue American droid fighter plane.
Stealth is a pretty fair military-hardware action movie until you start thinking about it -- at which point it turns incredibly sour in your mouth.
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