Active Stealth

The only way to watch this movie is with director's commentary on!

Which the movie itself is sub-par, maybe even below, I can't help but watch this movie over and over again.

Whether its the director talking about

-trying to get the actor's to shoot less blanks in exchange for more taco's -how one can't remove his super bowl rings and even points out a scene -how he wrestles some of the actor's -using the sub set from "Periscope Down" as a aircraft carrier -renting a plane prop from "JAG" that had no wings -always killing an actor -using a wal mart plastic airplane and holding it with his hands -The stock footage of a stealth plane and the one rented from JAG are completely different -simulating clouds with cigar smoke and a fan -Did I mention that for every blank you shoot that costs a dollar,and with that dollar we could buy another taco! -A water bottle is a cheap and effective sound effect to simulate the breaking of your neck

Ever since I saw this movie Daniel Baldwin is my hero, one day I too can be the 'Lost' Baldwin Brother.

I liked the movie except for two things. One, of the guys in the explosion scene, didn't "blow up" like he was supposed to. He fell forward about a second late. Secondly the number they used for the aircraft carrier was wrong. SSN's are submarines, not carriers. Any Navy/Military buff ( and this films target audience) probably picked up on that. It makes the director look bad as they didn't do their research . Other than that I liked it. I love the twists the film took at the end. And I can also agree somewhat with the earlier William Baldwin comment. He looked a little off in some scenes but maybe I'm just picky. Who knows. Also I thought they kept that agent's character a little too underplayed. It didn't make sense.

It seemed to me that she was just the "token woman" at times.

ACTIVE STEALTH is a military action film from B-movie purveyor Fred Olen Ray, who along with Charles Band must have made some of the silliest (and cheapest) movies of recent years. This one's a predictable action flick in which American stealth pilots go after the warlord of a made-up South American country and must rescue some kidnapped US hostages in the mean time.

As is the norm for one of these films - most of which seem to have been directed by Ray or Jim Wynorski - a lot of the more impressive action highlights have been lifted from other movies, CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER among them; this accounts for pretty much all of the aerial combat in this film. The stuff on the ground is a little more fun, with lots of cheesy macho dialogue, chest-thumping, and slow-motion shoot-outs with various goons.

The film features a laidback performance from Daniel Baldwin (recently of CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER fame, which says everything, and the least famous of the four brothers) as the tough hotshot, and he's supposed by a cast of the usual B-movie stereotypes. Watch out for a couple of old-timers, Andrew Stevens and Fred Williamson, playing officials. ACTIVE STEALTH is a pretty poor film but it's never boring, so it's far from the worst of this genre.

I can't comment on the military discrepancies (I think some 90% of all those watching this film also don't know anything as specific about the army as FLIRs and DLIRs) but the movie has some extremely silly situations in general. For example, take the scene where the two soldiers are playing with cups and a coin in a cell and fool their guard. It wouldn't be funny even in a comedy.

Indeed an appalling movie. When I saw the ridiculous air explosions effects I thought the movie had been made in 1980s. But it was made in around 1999!

This is the most unrealistic military movie that I have ever seen in my life. There are too many inconsistencies too mention them all but here are a few: 1. There are no fighter pilots in the Army, let alone in the Army Rangers 2. In the beginning, the Rangers leave behind their dead and wounded comrades. Rangers would NEVER do this. as stated in the Ranger Creed "never shall I leave a fallen comrade to fall into the hands of the enemy" 3. The Ranger colonel is wearing a Ranger battalion scroll. A full bird colonel would not be in a Ranger battalion, the highest ranking officer in a battalion is a Lieutenant Colonel. The colonel would have to be wearing a 75th Ranger Regiment scroll. 4. The colonel is also wearing an 82nd Airborne Division patch. He COULD NOT be serving in both the Rangers and Airborne at the same time. 5. There is no button on a stealth fighter that turns the stealth on and off. The plane is stealth because of its shape and jamming capabilities, not due to some magic force-field or something. This movie is an insult to all Rangers past and present, and all copies should be burned in a public square.