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This flashy techno-thriller sports a wildly improbable plot and frankly risible situations, but it moves like greased lightning and has enough action to keep any viewer’s adrenaline pumping. The story opens with three Navy “top gun” pilots -- Lieutenants Ben Gannon (Josh Lucas), Kara Wade (Jessica Biel), and Henry Purcell (Jamie Foxx) -- going through their paces in hopped-up fighter jets. But their war games are child’s play compared to the mission that will shortly put them in grave danger. A state-of-the-art, computer-guided UCAV (Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle) sustains a malfunction that overrides its program and sends it streaking toward North Korea on a bombing run. In the ensuing pursuit, Wade is forced to land behind enemy lines, and Gannon is torn between rescuing her and neutralizing the UCAV. Director Rob Cohen, whose previous movies include xXx and The Fast and the Furious, is definitely a filmmaker who always feels the need for speed, and he outdoes himself in Stealth: with so many quick cuts and rapid accelerations, we’d advise you to keep air-sickness bags at the ready while watching this puppy. Lucas, Biel, and Foxx have ample opportunities for good-natured banter and a little romance on the side, but they play their roles with just enough gravitas to lend the film some much-needed credibility. Of course, nobody expects Shakespearean drama here; Stealth never pretends to be anything but a two-hour amusement-park ride, and in that respect it succeeds admirably. Ed Hulse

All Movie Guide

The latest innovation in high-tech defense hardware turns out to have a very dangerous mind of its own in this action thriller. Kara Wade (Jessica Biel), Henry Purcell (Jamie Foxx), and Ben Gannon (Josh Lucas) are three highly ranked U.S. Navy pilots who are part of a top-secret project involving the next generation of stealth fighter technology, the Talon Jet. Wade, Purcell, and Gannon are surprised when their commander, Captain George Cummings (Sam Shepard), introduces them to the new member of their team -- "Edi," an "extreme deep invader" developed as part of the "Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle" program. Utilizing the latest innovations in artificial intelligence, Edi is a computer-based flight controller that will take over the wingman's position in the team's formation, and while the pilots initially balk, Edi performs admirably in its first mission. However, after Edi is struck by lightning on a return trip, the computer's circuits and software begin to change in unexpected ways, and Edi not only begins to think for itself, it begins to violate direct orders. During a mission investigating the forces of a dangerous Chinese extremist, Edi starts an attack that could launch World War III, and it's up to Wade, Purcell, and Gannon to stop both Edi and its dangerous plan before it's too late. Stealth also stars Joe Morton and Richard Roxburgh. Mark Deming

Product Details

• UPC: 043396151260
• Source: SONY PICTURES
• Region Code: A
• Presentation: Wide Screen
• Sound: Dolby AC-3 Surround Sound
• Editions: Subtitled, Dubbed
• Time: 2:01:00
• Sales Rank: 32,190

This DVD is also available as part of a box set:

• Stealth/Air Force One
• Stealth / XXX: State of the Union

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