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William C. Martell (writer)
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The World's Most Powerful Jet Fighter Is In Enemy Hands. Only One Man Can Steal It Back.
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When the top secret prototype of the Nova Stealth fighter has been stolen, the Pentagon launches big... more | add synopsis
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List: The 10 Most Slanderous Cinematic Slights*
(From IFC. 28 July 2008, 7:59 AM, PDT)
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one of my favorite Dudikoff flicks more (7 total)
Cast
(Credited cast)| Marcus Aurelius | ... | Hinkle | |
| Catherine Bell | ... | Lisa | |
| Michael Cavanaugh | ... | Barnes | |
| Michael Dudikoff | ... | Vince | |
| Frederic Forrest | ... | The Admiral | |
| John Furey | ... | Moore | |
| Landon Hall | ... | Eileen | |
| Gary Hudson | ... | Jannick | |
| John Lafayette | ... | Demuth | |
| Robert Madrid | ... | Stone | |
| Robert Miranda | ... | Rojar | |
| Richard Norton | ... | Rather | |
| Dean Scofield | ... | Captain Jones | |
| Sonny Surowiec | ... | Alias | |
| Marc Vahanian | ... | Radio Operator | |
| Nancy Valen | ... | Mela | |
| John Patrick White | ... | Winston |
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Rated R for violence and sexuality.
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Germany:84 min (cut version) | Germany:89 min | USA:85 min
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Germany:16 (cut) | Germany:18 | USA:R | Philippines:R-18 | Iceland:16
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Shots of the SR-71 taking off are from Michael Dudikoff's Strategic Command (1997), and the scenes on board the aircraft carrier are from Dudikoff's Crash Dive. more
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Factual errors: When "Blue One" gets into trouble on his way back from the test, he calls in "Flame out! We just lost both our engines". We've previously established that the test aircraft were F16s, so the "we" in this case would be just him, as the F16 is single-seat, plus, it has just the one engine. more
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Remade as Flight of Fury (2007) (V) more
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BLACK THUNDER isn't really a good movie, but it's definitely fun and is one of my favorite Dudikoff movies. Several of his movies have had interesting concepts, this one included: a prototype fighter jet with a stealth mode that hides it not just from radar, but from the human eye as well, rendering the plane completely invisible. When karate expert Richard Norton steals it, Michael Dudikoff is recruited to steal it back. Flying into enemy territory with an SR-71 and comedic sidekick Gary Hudson, Dudikoff sets out to recover the stolen aircraft, finding help from a local villager, BAYWATCH beauty Nancy Valen. (Sadly, that's a body double for Valen during the nude scene.) One of my favorite scenes is towards the end, when Dudikoff takes on a whole airfield full of enemy soldiers with a machine gun and a couple grenades. The climactic dogfight between Dudikoff and Norton has some cheapo effects (especially of that missile flying around), but it's all tongue-in-cheek fluff that can turn a rainy Saturday afternoon into something fun.