Stealth (2005)

Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control before it initiates the next world war.

Director:

Rob Cohen

Writer:

W.D. Richter

Stars:

Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel, Jamie Foxx

2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Josh Lucas	...	Lt. Ben Gannon
Jessica Biel	...	Lt. Kara Wade
Jamie Foxx	...	Lt. Henry Purcell
Sam Shepard	...	Capt. George Cummings
Richard Roxburgh	...	Dr. Keith Orbit
Joe Morton	...	Capt. Dick Marshfield
Ian Bliss	...	Lt. Aaron Shaftsbury
Ebon Moss-Bachrach	...	Tim
Michael Denkha	...	Naval Controller
Rocky Helton	...	Master at Arms
Clayton Adams	...	USS Abraham Lincoln Sailor
Maurice Morgan	...	USS Abraham Lincoln Sailor
Woody Naismith	...	USS Abraham Lincoln Sailor (as Christopher Naismith)
Charles Ndibe	...	USS Abraham Lincoln Sailor
Nicholas Hammond	...	Executive Officer

Storyline

In the near future, the Navy develops a fighter jet piloted by an artificial intelligence computer. The jet is placed on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific to learn combat manuevers from the human pilots aboard. But when the computer develops a mind of its own, it's the humans who are charged with stopping it before it incites a war...

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Plot Keywords:

bespectacled man | aircraft cockpit | missile attack | captain | bespectacled male | 

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Taglines:

Fear The Sky

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for intense action, some violence, brief strong language and innuendo

Details

Official Sites:

Columbia Tristar [France] Sony Pictures [United States]

Country:

USA

Language:

English Korean Russian Spanish

Release Date:

29 July 2005 (USA)

Also Known As:

Furtif

Filming Locations:

Australia

Box Office

Budget:

$135,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$13,251,545, 31 July 2005, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$32,116,746

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$76,932,872

Company Credits

Production Co:

Columbia Pictures Corporation,Original Film,Phoenix Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

121 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital SDDS (8 channels)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

David Bowie provided music, lyrics and voice for the track "(She Can) Do That", mixed by BT.

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Goofs

The bomb blows up a high-rise building in Yangon, Myanmar. It's actually in Thailand, on the west side of the highway leading from downtown Bangkok to the old airport at Don Muang. The cars on the nearby highway drive on the left. While Myanmar is former British colony, the country switched to driving on the right in 1970. Thailand drives on the left.

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Quotes

Capt. George Cummings: EDI is here to learn from you, so make sure these lessons are up to speed, alright.
Lt. Ben Gannon: Well then let the schoolin begin.

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Crazy Credits

After the end of the credits, we go back to Korea and see the wreckage of EDI. We pass through most of the wreckage until we stop on EDI's central core. Suddenly, the red eye begins to glow.....

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Connections

References Top Gun (1986)

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Soundtracks

Bug Eyes
Written and Performed by Dredg
Courtesy of Interscope Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

User Reviews

'Short Circuit' meets 'Top Gun'.

'Short Circuit' meets 'Top Gun' in Rob Cohen's CGI-packed action-fest Stealth, in which a trio of ridiculously attractive elite US fighter pilots (Josh Lucas, Jamie Foxx and Jessica Biel) must do battle with the latest in aeronautical warfare technology—an Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV), flown by a computer called EDI, which goes haywire after it is struck by lightning.

Tearing out of the stratosphere at Mach Impossible to blast the crap out of anything that looks even the slightest bit foreign, the hi-tech aircraft in this film are about as stealthy as a herd of stampeding fluorescent pink elephants blowing vuvuzelas; they sure are cool looking though, and provide action fans with plenty of moments of spectacular mid-air madness, Cohen's virtual camera whipping in and around the state-of-the-art aircraft with as much speed and agility as the planes themselves.

Anyone looking for realism need not apply (the film's corny plot is about as believable as an email from a Nigerian businessman), but with endless huge explosions, a psychotic A.I. jet plane, Foxx ploughing into the side of a mountain, and gorgeous Jessica Biel in a bikini, those after some slam-bang, big-budget popcorn trash to give the old brain cells a rest could do a lot worse than Stealth.

6.5 out 10, rounded up to 7 for IMDb.