I saw the potential of Stealth prior to seeing it, but what a terrible film it turned out to be. The premise is flawed from the outset. The audience sits and waits for the plane to become self-aware, waiting for it to wreak havoc on the world. Yet when it finally goes haywire, that sequence lasts about 10 minutes before it is back in the fold again. It was fantastically anti-climactic despite this being a mindless chase-and-explosion movie. There was no suspense at all in this picture. None! What was going to happen next was telegraphed ages before it occurred ("Why does it have a pilot's seat if it has an AI? Well for maintenance and testing" Gee, do you think he will pilot it at the end of the movie????) They could have done so much more! They could have had the plane take out whole cities, why not? Instead, Jamie Foxx is killed although really it was his own pilot error, and a bunch of nukes are bombed (as they should have been anyway).
The 3 central characters are the most unmilitary pilots in the history of film. They pick and choose what orders they want to obey, and they abandon destroying nuclear warheads in the hands of terrorists because some farmers MIGHT breath in some radioactive dust afterwords? What about the millions who will fry in a nuclear holocaust if they don't destroy the nukes? Instead, they have a collective bout of left-wing liberalism, and abandon the mission (sigh). Could it be any cornier? Or how about the fact that Jessica Biel and her C-cup (she says it, not me!!!!) can evade the entire North Korean army, shoot bad guys out of towers with a completely blind volley from her tiny gun, and then fall into her wing mates arms with dead bodies all around her? I thought they were going to start making out, they were just standing there with fire all around them with no idea how many more soldiers might be a little upset that they had just wasted a few hundred of their friends. How about if they at least crouch down a little? Instead they go off on some Sweet Valley High speech! Man, it was pathetic.
What a bad movie. The graphics were pretty good, I liked the special effects, especially when the robot plane moved from one side of the formation to the other. But why do movie studios spend 100 mil on effects and 50 cents on the script? Furthermore, what exactly is Biel's character saying to women out there? Pine over your whore-chasing man long enough, and despite throwing his amoral ways back in your face over and over and over again, don't worry, eventually you will win him over? The entire plot was just ridiculous from start to finish, dumbed down to the lowest common denominator.
R.
The 3 central characters are the most unmilitary pilots in the history of film. They pick and choose what orders they want to obey, and they abandon destroying nuclear warheads in the hands of terrorists because some farmers MIGHT breath in some radioactive dust afterwords? What about the millions who will fry in a nuclear holocaust if they don't destroy the nukes? Instead, they have a collective bout of left-wing liberalism, and abandon the mission (sigh). Could it be any cornier? Or how about the fact that Jessica Biel and her C-cup (she says it, not me!!!!) can evade the entire North Korean army, shoot bad guys out of towers with a completely blind volley from her tiny gun, and then fall into her wing mates arms with dead bodies all around her? I thought they were going to start making out, they were just standing there with fire all around them with no idea how many more soldiers might be a little upset that they had just wasted a few hundred of their friends. How about if they at least crouch down a little? Instead they go off on some Sweet Valley High speech! Man, it was pathetic.
What a bad movie. The graphics were pretty good, I liked the special effects, especially when the robot plane moved from one side of the formation to the other. But why do movie studios spend 100 mil on effects and 50 cents on the script? Furthermore, what exactly is Biel's character saying to women out there? Pine over your whore-chasing man long enough, and despite throwing his amoral ways back in your face over and over and over again, don't worry, eventually you will win him over? The entire plot was just ridiculous from start to finish, dumbed down to the lowest common denominator.
R.