Will please non-discriminating action hounds while leaving everyone else in search of a little meat unfulfilled. It's as fun as it is instantly forgettable.
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
You know the old joke about military intelligence being an oxymoron? Stealth proves it.
If Stealth were a recruitment film for aircraft-carrier duty, one would be tempted to say, 'Mission accomplished.' As a feature film, it's a washout.
After 110 minutes of this, atheists will storm monasteries and acrophobics will scale redwood trees, anything to find an oasis of calm.
Stealth is a offense against taste, intelligence and the noise pollution code -- a dumbed-down Top Gun crossed with the HAL 9000 plot from 2001.
Move over, Michael Bay. The Island is no longer the loudest, dumbest movie of the summer.
...so many beautiful explosions here that `Stealth' might work as a fetish film for pyromaniacs.
Recycled Top Gun thrills with three hot-shot pilots and a rogue American droid fighter plane.
Lucas insists, "I just don't think war should become some kind of video game." Too late.
Overlong, disjointed, and rarely compelling, Stealth has the capacity to put viewers into a catatonic state.
This rip-roaring action movie is great fun if you don't engage your brain
An unholy combination of 'Dr. Strangelove' and '2001' that manages to trash both those Kubrick masterpieces at once.
The stars are asked to chew on the driest of technobabble, and to strike poses of flyboy and flygirl moxie that make them look callow rather than heroic.
Preposterous and predictable, Stealth hides 2 pleasures under its wings. It is laughably bad, and it provides the adrenaline pumping thrills of a video game.
Despite its creative premise involving a robotic and intelligent fighter jet which goes bad, is remarkably uncreative in coming up with a story that actually makes use of this cool toy.
Daisy, Daisy I'll blow you out of the sky / I'm half crazy, seen Top Gun too many times...a plumb guilty pleasure.
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