Stealth Fighter (1999)

User Rating:

3.8/10   

Director:

Jim Wynorski

Writers:

Lenny Juliano (writer)
T.L. Lankford (additional dialogue)

Genre:

Action | Drama

Tagline:

The Ultimate Street Fight At 50,000 Feet

Plot:

Ice-T stars as a naval pilot that fakes his own death, and later ends up employed by a Latin American arms dealer...

Plot Keywords:

Stealth Fighter | Military | U Boat | Aircraft Carrier | Computer

Cast

Ice-T	...	Owen Turner (as Ice T)
Costas Mandylor	...	Ryan Mitchell
Erika Eleniak	...	Erin Mitchell (as Erika Eleniak-Goglia)
Sarah Dampf	...	J.P. Mitchell
William Sadler	...	Adm. Frank Peterson
Ernie Hudson	...	President Westwood
Andrew Divoff	...	Roberto Menendez
William G. Schilling	...	Harry Goldberg
John Enos III	...	Larry Ramsey
Alex Meneses	...	Roberto's Young Lady Desidea
Tommy 'Tiny' Lister	...	Berg (as Tommy 'Tiny' Lister Jr.)
Steve J. Hennessy	...	Brett Kelly (as Stevie J. Hennessy)
Michael Gregory	...	Gen. Elliott Wasserman
Mark Adair-Rios	...	Manuel Vega (as Mark Adair Rios)
Paul Terrell Clayton	...	Lt. Phillips

MPAA:

Rated R for violence and language.

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Iceland:12 | Germany:18 | USA:R

Company:

Artisan Entertainment

Trivia:

Footage of the satellite Thanatos is taken from the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

Goofs:

Factual errors: GPS receivers do not transmit any signal and could not be used as a tracking device.

Quotes:

Roberto Menendez: [to Berg] Did you find Mitchell?
Owen Turner: Obviously not
[Points at Berg]
Owen Turner: *He's* still alive!

Movie Connections:

Edited from Crimson Tide (1995)

A Battle for the World???

I don't know who came up with this film, but the casting director and the props person need to be glued together for about a month just to teach them a lesson. President Ernie Hudson? Do you take us for saps? Did anyone notice that during the tense negotiation scene with the bad guys, the President and his cabinet are sitting in what could be characterized as a small grade school classroom? watching a 19 inch tv monitor? while all assembled around a small dinner table? You can actually see them all being visibly uncomfortable, since they all can't fit into the picture at once. Ernie has a look on his face as though the camera crew didn't let him eat any catered donuts that morning--he's hungry and wondering where his life went.

Isn't the President supposed to have a big "situation" room, with padded chairs, big screen tv monitors and a huge conference table for when he negotiates with bad guys? If I were a bad guy, negotiating with Pres. Hudson while his staff all has to stand over his shoulder so they can see the tv would be impetus for all kinds of mischief. I bet when one of them stands up, he better call "fives" or someone takes his chair.

And who wrote Ice-T's lines? I certainly hope it wasn't the Ice-Man himself. Note to self, Ice: any tough-sounding one-liner that ends in the phrase "peach trees" is not all that tough to begin with. Wasn't this guy a rapper? Can't he sound any more intimidating than that?

Ice - T vs. Ernie Hudson in a battle for the world? Perhaps under-water living is the life for me, after all. Do yourself a favor..don't watch this movie. Go rent Ghostbusters, put on an Ice-T CD, and punch yourself in the groin for 2 hours.