Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Steven Seagal | ... | John Sands | |
Steve Toussaint | ... | Col. Ratcher | |
Angus MacInnes | ... | Gen. Tom Barnes | |
Mark Bazeley | ... | Capt. Richard Jannick | |
Ciera Payton | ... | Jessica | |
Alki David | ... | Rojar | |
Tim Woodward | ... | Admr. Frank Pendleton | |
Vincenzo Nicoli | ... | Peter Stone | |
Katie Jones | ... | Eliana Reed | |
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Gary Cooper | ... | Cmdr. Bud Jackson |
Bart Sidles | ... | Capt. 'Fox' Hinkle (as Barton Sidles) | |
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Cristina Teodorescu | ... | Pendleton's Operational Soldier Lisa |
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Rares George Panfil | ... | Williams |
Noah Lee Margetts | ... | Eliana's Soldier | |
Karen David | ... | Barnes's Operational Soldier Flanders |
--**Contains Spoilers**----Air Force pilot John Sands has been wrongfully imprisoned in a military detention center, where his memory is to be chemically wiped because some of his superiors feel threatened by the knowledge that he gained from his assignments to operations that were deemed too sensitive for the regular intelligence services. Later, after John escapes from the detention center, a top secret Air Force Stealth Bomber known as the X-77, which uses the latest in stealth cloaking technology, making it capable of going anywhere undetected, is stolen by corrupt Air Force pilot Ratcher. General Tom Barnes, John's former commander, hears that John has been arrested after taking down a group of men who were robbing a rest stop. Knowing that John was Ratcher's trainer, Barnes sends John to northern Afghanistan with fellow pilot Rick Jannick to recover the X-77, promising John that he will be a free man if he succeeds. Barnes has Admiral Frank Pendleton, who is on an aircraft ... Written by Todd Baldridge
Steven Seagal appears to be sleepwalking through a dreadful movie shot almost entirely in close-up to disguise the complete lack of budget and resources. To pick on the technical flaws - silver F/A-18s and F-14s take of from a carrier for an air-strike, and miraculously become camouflaged F-16s for the actual strike - would give this movie more credibility than it deserves. Suffice it to say that the most interesting thing in the movie is the credit titles which fade on and then disappear in a lightning wipe, which presumably is available to all users of Final Cut Pro. Putting all your creativity into your own credit puts Michael Keusch in the same category as Marcel Mandu.