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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.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for intense action, some violence, brief strong language and innuendo
Runtime: 2 hrs 1 min
Genre: Action/Adventure
Theatrical Release:Jul 29, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $31,704,416
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
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Reviews for Stealth
Aiming to join the Jerry BruckheimerJerry Bruckheimer/Michael BayMichael Bay school of American movie war games, Stealth is just too dumb to make the grade.
Even by the degraded standards of dim-witted summer blockbusters, this is sorry stuff.
Stealth manages to be so ridiculously unconvincing you think you're watching a live-action version of last year's sublime action-movie puppet satire Team America.
Stealth breaks the astound barrier before you can say, 'Woo-hoo, that blew up real good!'
Rob Cohen's airborne adventure Stealth commits the cardinal sin for an action movie: It's very, very dull.
No matter how hard Cohen flogs it, whips it, beats it, shakes it, kicks it and prods it with a sharp stick, Stealth, his latest, just doesn't spring to life.
Checks should be mailed to the estate of Stanley Kubrick for the brazen lifts from 2001: A Space Odyssey and a small one from Dr. Strangelove.
Visually and sonically boisterous, Stealth updates Top Gun, but with special effects replacing plot and character development.
It's nothing you haven't seen in Behind Enemy Lines, but it does provide Biel one more opportunity to start stripping.
Stealth flirts with competence when it reprises Behind Enemy Lines, and staggers into hilarious ineptitude when it borrows from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Harsh and tasteless, it doesn't even qualify as a popcorn movie. Popcorn, at least, has some taste to it, and a certain airiness.
Stealth succeeds in satisfying a dozen different pubescent fantasies while simultaneously violating every aspect of logic and good taste.
There is little to recommend beyond the action sequences, unless you like your arrogant-America, flag-waving jingoism taken to extreme lengths.
Beyond mind-numbing explosions, Stealth's effects are good, especially the whooshing flight scenes. But as Eddie shows, humanity matters, and computer wizardry won't fill an empty plot.
Cohen is no stranger to cornball excess but Stealth is his chef-d'oeuvre, a movie so audaciously preposterous and jingoistic it plays like a parody of the genre.
[Stealth] is the filmic embodiment of all that is indulgent, gratuitous and downright dumb in pop culture.
Stealth doesn't so much crash and burn as just fly and fade into its CGI-created sunset.
Hollywood hokum? Absolutely. Pop-culture propaganda? Perhaps. Yet Stealth goes beyond feeding our popcorn proclivities.
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