Release Date:
07/29/2005
Wow! You’d better hit the theater with an oxygen tank and a team of EMTs because Stealth takes your breath away. Director Rob Cohen has crafted a fast and furious supersonic ride that makes Top Gun look like early Wright Brothers outtakes. Sure, movie and military technology have increased light years since Tom Cruise buzzed the light tower, but Cohen’s dogfight sequences are the kind of adrenaline-extorting filmmaking that will induce whiplash. (Even better, he puts Jessica Biel in a bikini—what more could a summer audience hope for?)
Biel stars alongside Josh Lucas and Jamie Foxx as hard-partying, high-flying elite test pilots who steer top secret stealth fighters. When their commanding officer (Sam Shepard) brings in a new wingman named EDI, which is actually an unmanned drone, Lucas’ initial doubts about technology are realized. Before you can say “nuclear Armageddon,” the robotic flyboy goes haywire and starts making combat decisions on his own, begetting an ending that features one of the largest explosions ever filmed. (The resulting fireball was so big it was visible from space, forcing the filmmakers to alert NASA before lighting the fuse. Seriously.) As Lucas warns his superiors, “To be honest with you, I don’t think war should become a video game.” Maybe not, but war does make damn fine entertainment. For sheer nonstop action and aerial thrills, this movie soars above the rest.
Biel stars alongside Josh Lucas and Jamie Foxx as hard-partying, high-flying elite test pilots who steer top secret stealth fighters. When their commanding officer (Sam Shepard) brings in a new wingman named EDI, which is actually an unmanned drone, Lucas’ initial doubts about technology are realized. Before you can say “nuclear Armageddon,” the robotic flyboy goes haywire and starts making combat decisions on his own, begetting an ending that features one of the largest explosions ever filmed. (The resulting fireball was so big it was visible from space, forcing the filmmakers to alert NASA before lighting the fuse. Seriously.) As Lucas warns his superiors, “To be honest with you, I don’t think war should become a video game.” Maybe not, but war does make damn fine entertainment. For sheer nonstop action and aerial thrills, this movie soars above the rest.