The
military, particularly the U.S. military has been among the favorite topics
that Hollywood movies are based on and in 2005 Rob Cohen expanded his
impression on how the future of stealth aircraft would become in his Movie Stealth. It was supposed to be a
completely different take from Top Gun
but eventually having a movie plot that involves 3 of the best pilots in the
U.S. Navy (some considered in the entire world); it was inevitable that people
compared it with the previous film having similar theme where Tom Cruise
starred in.
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Okay,
so the movie isn’t about the 3 sky masters at all but about an A.I. (artificial
intelligence) futuristic aircraft going rogue and threatens to start a new
world war. Actually saying that is an understatement because what really
happened is that the creator of this ultra high-tech machine who goes by the
name of Dr. Keith Orbit played by Richard Roxburgh did not anticipate that his
DNA-based computer evolved to become a person. Yes that’s right, a person with
feelings and instincts now learning from the 3 pilots who were Lt. Kara Wade played by the hotness Jessica Biel, playboy jigelow Lt. Henry Purcell played by academy award actor Jamie Foxx and Lt. Ben Gannon played by handsome actor Josh Lucas.
Unfortunately it also inherited the cocky and rebellious attitude of its wing
commander Lt. Gannon, which caused it to disobey orders and went off flying on
its own seeking a new target in order to fulfill his purpose.
So
the movie is really about an extremely smart UCAV or otherwise known as (unmanned combat aerial
vehicle) getting a mind of its own, and not a Top Gun parody as most critics suggests. In any case I think that
those who are fans of the military technology are the few who could understand
what’s going on in the film and most of all appreciate it. True it flopped in
the box office making only half of its production budget but it was quite
interesting to see giving a computer the same processing speed and memory
allocation as any human being has. It explores the horizons of
your “what ifs?” questions.
As
far as the action is concerned I would have to say it’s awesome because I know
how aerial combat works and how effective superstealths like the F/A-37 Talon
and the UCAV E.D.I (Extreme Deep Invader) are in combat as was portrayed in the
movie. You can find my article here published in a magazine in UK, it talks about the Brazilian FX-2 program where they are preparing to select an air-superiority jet fighter for their own air force. Like I said
before you can only truly appreciate this film if you’re a hardcore fan of
military hardware and computer programming and applications. The acting is not
bad, I mean we got Jamie Foxx on board here come on! In case you don’t know he’s
already won the best actor academy award for his outstanding performance in Ray. His co-stars are just as incredible we got Jessica Biel
who has been in several men's magazines for being HOT and mind you she’s also a
good actress. I think I remember her best in the TV series 7th Heaven as one of the preacher’s children, she did a great
job there also. Josh Lucas is fairly new but to be included in the cast of an
Ang Lee film as the antagonist Glenn Talbot in The Hulk (2003) means something, Lee has an eye for picking his actors in his
movies. Plus the guy has got good looks, so what more do you want?
The
movie is definitely not good for kids below 15 years old unless they’re
researching about computer programming or quantum mechanics or anything
unusually high-tech stuff. But for all other ages, yes I would recommend it and
it may help if we read into something related to the movie plot before judging
it. However, I don’t think everybody has the luxury of time to do that with all
the ads and movie trailers coming out bombarding our brains and getting us all
excited about it. It’s a good film to pass up the time if you’re on a weekend
break or just hanging out with friends at home.
