Flight of Fury
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Actor: steven seagalBrand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-02-20
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Flight of Fury
Movie Review: Too Tired To Fly
Summary: 2 Stars
How versatile and unpredictable is Steven Seagal? Mind you, I'm not referring to his fighting skills or his resourcefulness as an actor, but rather to the fact that he can make a film as bad as "Flight of Fury" and follow it up with the much-applauded "Urban Justice". Seriously, I have no idea how he does it...and neither, it seems, does he.
After escaping from a "memory wipe" session set up by military minds afraid of his acquired knowledge (what he supposedly knows, however, is never discussed), Air Force pilot John Sands (Seagal) is rediscovered by the military and offered his freedom in exchange for bringing back a prototype stealth bomber which has been stolen and set to be sold by a treasonous pilot (Steve Toussaint, "Shooting Dogs"). Aided by a young airman (Mark Bazeley), John must travel undetected into northern Afghanistan, locate and retrieve the plane, and try not to get killed by the guerrilla group hoping to make deadly use of its technology.
For some reason, I was hopeful about "Flight", but was soon brought back down to earth upon discovering that it's just another run-of-the-mill Seagalian DTV drag.
The first line uttered by Seagal's character is dubbed by another actor, and the majority of his dialogue remains this way: "Flight" matches "Attack Force" for sheer amount of dubbing, so we can be sure that Seagal himself wasn't attached enough to this movie to redo his own lines. Still, that doesn't mean his ego can't be dutifully stroked: besides being lauded as both the best pilot and martial artist on the face of the earth, he gets to kiss the red-hot Ciera Payton on the lips and call her "babe" (then again, so does Katie Jones), and keeps his title of "most unbeatable action hero" throughout some pretty lacklustre fight scenes and shootouts.
To the film's credit, the editing and cinematography (with the exception of stock footage used for almost every shot featuring an airplane) is a step above average for Seagal's flicks. Seagal also looks in better shape than he did for his last few outings, the supporting cast does its best, and the assault on the terrorist base near the end of the film is thoroughly decent, giving Alki "Kiss my big, fat Arab a--" David ("The Bank Job") a moment to shine.
Still, the film moves at all-too-slow of a pace for any kind of action movie, and any and all scenes featuring flying aircraft are best left forgotten - a shame that these encompass a large part of the movie. Rest assured, this is not "Top Gun"; just a patchwork of recycled footage and ideas that must be viewed in the company of one or two hotdogs or a distracting home-improvement project to be fully enjoyed.
Since it was followed by "Urban Justice" and "Pistol Whipped", I hope that "Flight of Fury" marks the end of the long procession of so-bad-they're-good films for Steven, because not even his fans want to see much more of this. Thus, I'd recommend the film only to fans that have not yet been too jaded by the likes of his recent films to give this one a buy.
Summary of Flight of Fury
Steven Seagal stars in this high-octane thriller as John Sands a secret operative used by the United States Air Force for those covert operations deemed too sensitive for the regular intelligence services. When his own Agency feels threatened by the knowledge he gained from past exploits -- they quickly imprison him and schedule a chemical wipe of his memories. Feeling betrayed by his Agency John escapes the hi-tech detention center and plans to assimilate into society. Unfortunately the Air Force has other plans for him. A top secret Stealth Bomber that uses the latest in stealth cloaking technology has been hijacked and it s their belief that John s the only man capable of getting it back before it falls into the hands of a terrorist group that could prove to be an unstoppable force.System Requirements:Running Time: 98 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating:?R UPC:?043396160453 Manufacturer No:?16045Anyone who seeks out a Steven Seagal movie has certain expectations: Bone-crunchingly brutal martial arts action; spiritual or ecological wisdom uttered in Seagal's hoarse monotone; and one long relentless scowl. Flight of Fury fails to deliver on all counts. Seagal plays an ex-military guy who's the only man who can retrieve a stolen stealth fighter. So he goes to Afghanistan, where he teams up with a sexy agent of some kind (Ciera Payton, making her cinematic debut) to shoot a bunch of Afghan mercenaries and fly away. The only plausible explanation for this movie's existence is that Seagal and his producers bought some stock footage of jet fighters and decided to build a story around it. The action scenes are murky, brief, and edited to compensate for Seagal's increasing bulk. The rote dialogue--co-written by Seagal--is recycled from a dozen other action movies. And Seagal can't even muster the energy to frown, let alone scowl. This inert lump of a movie is the latest in a series of clumsy, incompetent, straight-to-video clunkers from Seagal, who is cynically squeezing every dollar he can out of his long-suffering fanbase. --Bret Fetzer
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