Active Stealth

An absolute piece of crap, with no storyline and lame acting…whatcan I say? If you havent seen it you’re missing the most absurdfilm ever!

A must see if you are a masochist or just in case you want to getrid of your wife’s sister…

2) The only way to watch this movie is with director’s commentary on!

Which the movie itself is sub-par, maybe even below, I can’t help butwatch this movie over and over again.

Whether its the director talking about

-trying to get the actor’s to shoot less blanks in exchange for moretaco’s -how one can’t remove his super bowl rings and even points out ascene -how he wrestles some of the actor’s -using the sub set from"Periscope Down" as a aircraft carrier -renting a plane prop from "JAG"that had no wings -always killing an actor -using a wal mart plasticairplane and holding it with his hands -The stock footage of a stealthplane and the one rented from JAG are completely different -simulatingclouds with cigar smoke and a fan -Did I mention that for every blankyou shoot that costs a dollar,and with that dollar we could buy anothertaco! -A water bottle is a cheap and effective sound effect to simulatethe breaking of your neck

Ever since I saw this movie Daniel Baldwin is my hero, one day I toocan be the ‘Lost’ Baldwin Brother.

3) Everything in this movie stinks — from a fat and wasted looking WilliamBaldwin to an insulting inattention to military detail. I don’t expect muchfrom mine-run action flicks but this one was incredibly bad, even by myrelaxed standards for the genre. For example, as our heroes are flying into make the rescue (don’t ask), a young female soldier asks the Colonel backat the base, "Do you think they have a chance, sir?" to which the Colonelanswers, "Not a chance in hell, but they might make it anyway." Perhaps theonly trite line I did not hear was, "It’s an old trick, but it just mightwork." Maxwell Smart would have been comfortable in thisone.

4) I liked the movie except for two things. One, of the guys in theexplosion scene, didn’t "blow up" like he was supposed to. He fellforward about a second late. Secondly the number they used for theaircraft carrier was wrong. SSN’s are submarines, not carriers. AnyNavy/Military buff ( and this films target audience) probably picked upon that. It makes the director look bad as they didn’t do theirresearch . Other than that I liked it. I love the twists the film tookat the end. And I can also agree somewhat with the earlier WilliamBaldwin comment. He looked a little off in some scenes but maybe I’mjust picky. Who knows. Also I thought they kept that agent’s charactera little too underplayed. It didn’t make sense.

It seemed to me that she was just the "token woman" at times.

5) I only caught part of this movie as it was playing on HBO… One thing thatcaught me, aside from the hat the carrier commander was wearing said SSN,instead of CVN, was that when the pilot of the stealth went to hit hiscountermeasures, two of the buttons he hit were marked "FLIR" and "DLIR". For anyone who knows even a little about military aircraft, FLIR and DLIRare radars, NOT flares or other countermeasures. This was just a bad movie,even from the few parts I saw. It’s an insult to every military pilot outthere and to anyone who even knows a little bit about the planes featured. The fact that the F-117 is NOT a 2-seater, let alone has no room forpassengers in the back. I can’t believe that the producers and othersinvolved would pay no attention whatsoever to detail.

6) Recap: After a failed diplomatic mission were Captain Murphy himselfwas held hostage, a rescue team is sent. Able to free the captives but,Murphy's friend, and the leader of the rescue team, Rifkin is woundedand left behind. Later the team get a video showing Rifkin held hostageby the drug lord Salvatore. Now it seems they will get a third andfinal shot at rescuing their man, and taking out Salvatore. To givethem an edge, they have a modified Stealth Fighter, able to carrypersonnel, that will fly them into the (fictive) South AmericanCountry.

Comments: Clearly an attempt to put together an hour and a half ofaction and little more. Barely to keep the story floating. There aretwo major problems though. First off, as often in these kind of movies,the soldiers are under-equipped and clearly not trained. In mostfirefights people, mostly bad guys, drop like flies. But had there beenreal ammo, I doubt they would have hit the same village. The secondproblem is that Stealth Fighters must be hard to come by. Although thefighting is set in a dry and warm country in South America, mostpictures show the Stealth flying over a snow-covered landscape.

Both problems make it hard to take the movie seriously. But then again,we are not really supposed to do that anyway, are we? If one arewilling, and able, to ignore those problems, this is a decentlow-budget action. If you're not, you will probably want to skip thisone…

3/10

7) I happened to catch this on one of the cable channels a while back, andthe previous reviewer is square-on, it is terrible. This film couldn'thave cost more than a hundred grand to make. I've seen better homemovies. Daniel Baldwin walks through this looking like he has aperpetual hang-over, and is way too overweight to be taken seriously asa military pilot. He must have been desperate for work at the time. Ionce served in the Army Rangers with Tim Abell, which is why I keptwatching this. While he will never be mistaken for Olivier, Tim hasmade a name for himself as a notable B-actor, and he seems to find alot of work. However, this is definitely not his finest effort; infact, the producers should have hired him as a military consultantinstead.

This is one of the few entertaining jet fighting movies i’ve seen lately,since the Top Gun day’s. For someone who loves jet fighters, I think it wasquite a well made movie, which had a capturing story, and goodacting.

9) This is easily the worst military movie ever made. I understand thatthere can be some far fetched concepts in the movies, but that’s OK,this was just acting, poorly advised, and poorly written. I find ithard to believe that they had a military adviser at all. I’m sure ifthey had at least tried they could have found a homeless veteran thatwould have advised for the fee of a bottle of Jack Daniels. This was aneven worse portrayal of Army Rangers than Basic with John Travolta. Andthey had a female ranger in that movie. Even some one with absolutelyno knowledge of the army would think that the military operations inthe movie were terrible. And the packaging has pictures of Navy SeaStallion Helicopters and the write up on the back mentions an Apacheattack Helicopter squadron, none of which are in the movie. I could goon for hours. A promotion from captain to lieutenant colonel?? Myfriend and I are in Iraq right now and it came to us in a care package.Clearly whoever sent tnis movie already saw it and wanted it as faraway from them as possible.

10) Just like my joke it was terrible. The plot was lame, the acting dire. Thewarning on the end of the film should have read, "Any similarity torealities real or imaginary is coincidental’. I will say one thing in itsdefence. No one on the film probably even talked to the army or airforce,most of the Intruder scenes at the start of the movie are stolen from`Flight of the Intruder’ a Vietnam War film. These clips seem to have beenincluded where they generally looked good for the plot so of course, theinternal shots didn’t match the externals. All I can really say about thisfilm is AVOID!