Review of Stealth
October 25th 2006 21:02
Stealth
Stealth(2005)
Directed: Rob Cohen
Written: W.D. Richter
Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel, Jamie Foxx.
Something Sucky This Way Comes
Hollywood has something (although they’ll never admit to it) called the paint-by-number film. You all know what I mean; Hot actors, fast action, a huge advertising campaign, a script that should be lining a bin somewhere… all packaged together to give maximum punch. 2005’s Stealth is just such a movie.
Focussing on the high paced antics of three jet pilots (Lucas, Biel and Foxx). Stealth is the sorry tale of man’s natural instinct to trust in artificial intelligence, and the desperate fight to the death that will occur when no one listens to the good-looking heroes despite all evidence to the contrary.
As a film, well, there’s very little good that be said about it. Cohen appears desperate to milk every cliché possible. There’s the tentative romance between the two white leads. The lightning-strike that miraculously turns the functioning Ai into a vicious killing machine. The air-chase halfway around the world (in less then ten minutes I might add). The girl stuck behind enemy lines. The gallant rescue. Even the old favourite – the heartless machine learns how to love. About all I can say is that the pyrotechnics rock (as long as you can ignore the impossible physics of it all) and the actors, while stymied by a truly, truly terrible script, don’t entirely disappoint, Jamie Foxx being the best of the bunch.
Perhaps one day there will be some kind of law from unleashing rubbish like this on the unsuspecting public. Until then you’ll just have to take my advice and avoid it like the plague.
3/10
Stealth(2005)
Directed: Rob Cohen
Written: W.D. Richter
Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel, Jamie Foxx.
Something Sucky This Way Comes
Hollywood has something (although they’ll never admit to it) called the paint-by-number film. You all know what I mean; Hot actors, fast action, a huge advertising campaign, a script that should be lining a bin somewhere… all packaged together to give maximum punch. 2005’s Stealth is just such a movie.
Focussing on the high paced antics of three jet pilots (Lucas, Biel and Foxx). Stealth is the sorry tale of man’s natural instinct to trust in artificial intelligence, and the desperate fight to the death that will occur when no one listens to the good-looking heroes despite all evidence to the contrary.
As a film, well, there’s very little good that be said about it. Cohen appears desperate to milk every cliché possible. There’s the tentative romance between the two white leads. The lightning-strike that miraculously turns the functioning Ai into a vicious killing machine. The air-chase halfway around the world (in less then ten minutes I might add). The girl stuck behind enemy lines. The gallant rescue. Even the old favourite – the heartless machine learns how to love. About all I can say is that the pyrotechnics rock (as long as you can ignore the impossible physics of it all) and the actors, while stymied by a truly, truly terrible script, don’t entirely disappoint, Jamie Foxx being the best of the bunch.
Perhaps one day there will be some kind of law from unleashing rubbish like this on the unsuspecting public. Until then you’ll just have to take my advice and avoid it like the plague.
3/10
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