Bill Gunston, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Ian Bliss

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.

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PG-13, 2 hrs. 1 min.

Directed by: Rob Cohen

Release Date: July 29, 2005

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DVD Release Date: January 29, 2008

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  • November 5, 2009
    You will probably try to compare this to Top Gun, understandable, as therereally hasnt been any hollywood movies about the Air Force since Tom Cruise took our breaths away. If you give the movie a chance you will notice that Stealth is a good movie in its own right and really doe...( read more)snt follow the Top Gun formula. But there really is nothing going to ever be better than Top Gun. Yet the Russian Terminators in Stealth are hot and you'll drop your mouth or say out loud "OMFG"
  • August 16, 2008
    Lt. Henry Purcell: [to a random Asian girl in the street] "Excuse me, I'm from America. I fly jets. Do you like to go fast?"

    Are you fucking serious?! What a complete piece of crap!
  • April 15, 2008
    Pretty good action flick.
  • April 9, 2008
    Sometimes when you expect a movie to suck you get rather pleasantly surprised. Not really being a fan of jet fighter movies and having heard of rather bad reviews for this I didn't check it out for a long time but guess what? I was pretty well entertained. Sure, the story isn't m...( read more)uch to write home about, although I must say that I didn't really see the direction of the second half of the movie coming. The flight sequences and action scenes are pretty impressive though and the effects together with some nifty camera tricks really neat. Also nice use of some kickass Incubus songs. So, rather silly but actually quite fun movie. Jessica Biel in a Bikini helped too.
  • January 13, 2008
    Directed by:Rob Cohen
    Starring: Jamie Foxx, Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel, Sam Shepard, Joe Morton.

    I knew that I shouldn't have watched this. I always had no interest in seeing it, because I knew what I would have endured...but when it was on when I turne...( read more)d the TV on and there was literally nothing else on, I watched...I asked for it.

    The story follows a squadron of elite pilots in the Navy who seem to have it all, they are great friends, have great lives and work well together. The Navy soon develops a fourth wingman for the squadron...an artificial intelligence. Believed to be the future of modern warfare, it is smart and also learns from it's co-pilots in combat maneuvers so that it works as a team...but when it develops a mind of its own (WOW...really? I never saw that coming), they must stop it before it gets out of hand and starts destroying at will.

    Rob Cohen, another recent 'go to guy' in Hollywood for action, he did a rather decent job with 'The Fast and the Furious' and 'XXX' in the way of keeping the action high and create reasonably compelling viewing...but what is he doing here? Not only does he cut and paste a lot of ideas and shots from his previous films, he also over stylizes with the spectacular CGI and everything is way to hyper and quickly cut that we can never enjoy any of it, it's all out of control for any balance...and it really lacks the intensity and compelling factor you would hope for and he resorts to explosions, just for the sake of it.

    The screenplay, along with the story is so terribly tripe, predictable, muddled and ultimately, a waste. It follows the same old formula...we see the characters doing there thing (the brief outline), they meet there 'new wingman' (the situation), he turns bad (the problem) and they fix it in the most obvious way (the solution)...sure this maybe a typical structure, but it is one that works...but how you make it work makes all the difference, it doesn't here and also, everything has to be so terribly flawed and defy gravity in every way possible (we are meant to believe half of what they are able to do is real?). As you would expect, the screenwriter follows his dummies rule list and tries to add some development of the character...you know, to let us know who we are watching and try and add either an emotion core between them or a level of likeness...neither is given, instead we are shown, in a short amount of time (including the obvious points during the film where the action dies down), small sequences of what they are like...all while reading bullshit on the technical details of there work...you know, just to remind us that they are actually pilots...and not to mention the fact that they are boring as hell, supplied with very unrealistic dialogue (Who the hell says 'Pardon my C cup' to a guy who accidentally walks into her bra hanging on the line?).

    The acting is as you would expect, especially with the characters they each have to work with. Jessica Biel is beautiful, no denying that (Oh yeah and to remind us of that, they put in bikini shot), but she seems to be picking roles (or maybe doing them to finish a 5-picture deal or something) that copies her image from previous films, that she is more of a boyish bad ass. She has always shown potential, yet she follows a similar formula for her characters tone and it isn't anything special at all. Jamie Foxx only works his style right with the right role and he sure can be an Academy Award winning actor...but with nothing to work with, he throws in his silly, shallow modern-aged attitude and humor and it just shows stupidity to the role. Josh Lucas...simple, he has no charisma or qualities to be in a leading role.

    The moral of the story...don't trust machines...what I don't trust is that they have to make this as the big plot point of the film and never take it in any refreshing or original direction. I don't know what Hollywood tries to achieve with films, when they are always 60/40 with what they release (take a guess what takes the 60), but this continues a new low. Boring, predictable tripe that lacks intensity and is way too over stylized to be entertaining...and the fact that they have to insult my intelligence at the same time is the wrong way to go.
  • October 22, 2009
    Was just as bad as I thought it was going to be.
  • October 19, 2009
    not my type of movie
  • October 18, 2009
    Hey, must see for those interested in Artificial Intelligence...
  • September 23, 2009
    good intense actions...
  • September 15, 2009
    Another mindless, action-packed piece of crap by Rob Cohen, probably his worst. It has cool explosions and Jessica Biel is hot, though. Avoid. It is worse than the worst film by Michael Bay, so go figure.

    34/100

Critic Reviews


July 29, 2005
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

Rob Cohen's airborne adventure Stealth commits the cardinal sin for an action movie: It's very, very dull. full review

July 29, 2005
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

No matter how hard Cohen flogs it, whips it, beats it, shakes it, kicks it and prods it with a sharp stick, Stealth, his latest, just doesn't spring to life. full review

July 29, 2005
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

Cohen is no stranger to cornball excess but Stealth is his chef-d'oeuvre, a movie so audaciously preposterous and jingoistic it plays like a parody of the genre. full review

July 29, 2005
Ty Burr, Boston Globe

Stealth is a pretty fair military-hardware action movie until you start thinking about it -- at which point it turns incredibly sour in your mouth. full review

July 29, 2005
Kyle Smith, New York Post

Stealth is so over-painted with CGI that it doesn't look as real as the sequence starring Shepard that inspired it in The Right Stuff, a movie made with model airplanes. full review

July 28, 2005
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune

While Stealth repeatedly hits air pockets of plot nonsense, Cohen provides [fun] in abundance. full review

July 28, 2005
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Stealth is a offense against taste, intelligence and the noise pollution code -- a dumbed-down Top Gun crossed with the HAL 9000 plot from 2001. full review

July 26, 2005
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine

Reflects Cohen's own aesthetic modus operandi of replacing all traces of humanity with digitized artificiality. full review

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  • nbhatti3000
    December 3, 2007
    This is a movie of air force in this movie it is shown America can do anything anywhere in the world they can destroy what ever they want in they world, send their fighter planes. But very nice movie
  • jbpelican
    August 18, 2006
    Pretty cool, if not cheesy at times though. I thought Jammie Foxx would have lasted longer. watch it when you cant find Top Gun in your collection.

    Justins Best Bit: Airborn fuel tankers make quite the explosion.

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