Stealth Fighter (1999)

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:

Battle scenes from the beginning of the movie that feature Intruder bombers attacking a power plant and ammunition depot are taken from Flight of the Intruder (1991).

Goofs:

Factual errors: The stealth plane is shown using air to air missiles, which were never fitted to this type.

Quotes:

Roberto Menendez: What took your man so long to call us?
Owen Turner: Maybe he's developing a sense of humor!

Movie Connections:

Edited from The Dogs of War (1980)

Stealth Movie With Stealthy Plot

"Stealth Fighter" is perhaps one of the worst low-budget espionage films concievable. Ice-T's portrayal of a navy fighter pilot borders on ridiculous even comedic as he brings unbelivable adolescent "gang" behavior and language to the film. What happens when the gangsters of New Jack City meet political terrorists? You get "Stealth Fighter" a movie that is almost insulting to the intelligence. How is it possible that a pilot can be concurrently enlisted in both the Air Force AND Navy, be a Navy SEAL, and lastly, be qualified for all major US aircraft? And with all the intelligence neccessary to do all of those tasks, we're to believe that Ice-T's character can't even pronounce the words "seven-seven-seven" with good english? (Ice-T pronounces seven as 'tevin-tevin-tevin.') Not to mention that this film excessively steals stock footage heavily from such movies as Iron Eagle, Interceptor, Clear and Present Danger, US Navy Seals, Diamonds are Forever and includes a battle sequence constructed entirely from edited footage of the bombing scene from Flight of The Intruder, where the only noticeable difference is Brad Johnson and Williem Dafoe have been conviently edited from the scene. The "stealth" F-117 which is stolen from the US gov't is actually the prop used as the "Manta" transport plane from Executive Decision. What is supposed to be a high-tech Los Angeles class submarine is actually the WWII era submarine set featured in Down Periscope. And the center attraction, a stolen SDI satellite, is actually stock footage of the killer satellite from James Bond "Diamonds Are Forever." To make matters worse, the footage editors didn't even bother to remove the original on-screen text from US Navy Seals in the carrier scene...the text that says "Off The Coast of Lebanon" does not match the on screen text used earlier and for the rest of "Stealth Fighter" - it's like comparing italic Times New Roman to Arial font. There are way too many character flaws, plot inconsistencies, and easily recognizable props and footage from other movies included in "Stealth Fighter" to make it believable.