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Actors: Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel, Jamie Foxx, Sam Shepard, Joe Morton, Richard Roxburgh, Ebon Moss-Bachrach
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Stealth |
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An elite U.S. naval air force squadron, comprised of Lts. Ben Gannon, Kara Wade, and Henry Purcell, pilots three advanced, experimental stealth fighter jets designed to target terrorists. A fourth jet, nicknamed EDI and piloted by artificial intelligence, joins them on an aircraft carrier in the Phillipines to learn their combat manouevers. While carrier captain Marshfield and Lt. Gannon are hesitant about pushing digital warfare, commanding officer Cummings is gung ho.
The team is thrust from its first test flight into a real emergency mission in Rangoon. EDI, using biometric eye scans and fingerprint/voice analyses, identifies the terrorists from the air, and suggests diving dead vertical with implosion bombs to avert collateral damage. EDI is ordered to do the deed, but, not to be outdone, Gannon takes it over. The mission is a smashing success. As they return to the carrier, lightning strikes, reconfiguring EDI's neural network. Before repairs are complete, a crisis in Tajikistan calls them back to action. To avert unacceptable deaths, Gannon exercises his "abort" authority. But EDI, an indiscriminate learner, mimics Ben's previous defiance, opens fire, and heads for the Russian no-fly zone to select more targets. Purcell gives chase, crashes, and dies. Hit by his frags, Wade ejects into hostile North Korea and must fight for her life to reach the South Korean border, 12 miles away.
Dr. Orbit, EDI's creator, discovers that EDI has broken into secure files and selected a mission called Caviar Sweep - a hypothetical strike concocted by a think tank, but about to become disastrously real if EDI isn't stopped. Cummings, to lessen his chances of triggering a war and being court martialed for having cleared EDI to fly, gives codes to the Russians so they may shoot the jet down; but still needs a way to silence Gannon. As Gannon chases and argues with EDI, Russians fire, and EDI's port fuel line ruptures. Programmed to survive and not fall into enemy hands, the jet is left no option but to obey Gannon's order to cancel all targets.
Low on fuel, both jets follow Cummings' order to divert to an unmapped "security facility" in Alaska. Both can tell Cummings is lying when he says Wade is "on approach," so EDI invades flight logs that track her to North Korea. At the Alaskan facility, EDI lands safely, but Gannon's jet crashes and burns. On Cummings' orders, Orbit is there to erase EDI's memory banks; but hesitates as his creation expresses actual feelings about its actions. Gannon, dodging a fatal injection, and fueled by rage, urges Marshall to go after Cummings, and flies EDI to Korea to try to rescue Wade.
--vjm, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Stealth |
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- near future
War Thriller
Yes
Armed Forces:
- Air Force
Technology/treasure/info search
Yes
involving:
- special plane
Romance
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- military pilot
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- cynical
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) long straight
Body type
- average (woman)
Unclothed?
- very tight clothes
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- An "It".
Has special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist:
- is very quick
- super strength
- can fly
- can read emotions
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
- deluded
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 90%-100%
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Alaska
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Russia
Asia/Pacific
Yes
Asian country:
- Southeast Asia
Air?
Yes
Air:
- warplane
Misc setting
- fort/military installation
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
How many deaths in film?
- hundreds
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 10 (a tremendous amount)
Kind of violence:
- mission to destroy something
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- exploding vehicles
- exploding bombs
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Modern rock/pop
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