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Flight of Fury

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FLIGHT OF FURY really boils down to a remake of Clint Eastwood's Firefox leavened with a little of Lou Gossett Jr.'s Iron Eagle. In FLIGHT OF FURY, Steven Seagal plays the world's greatest Special Ops soldier who is sent to recover the United States' prototype "active stealth" fighter jet (a jet with a cloaking device that renders it invisible) which has been stolen by a traitorous pilot for sale to a group of Middle Eastern terrorists (led by a British expat).

There are a slue of high pyrotechnic explosions, a little gratuitous lesbianism that adds nothing to the storyline but comes as an unexpected development, much gunfire, Steven's usual muttered monotone, and some martial arts action.

The fairly chaotic screenplay manages to hold together despite its spit-for-glue quality. FLIGHT OF FURY gives us nothing new at all in the action genre, but if you are a fan of this type of film FLIGHT OF FURY is worth the effort of crackin' a cold one and mowing down on a couple of microwaved hot dogs on a slow Sunday. (A hint: use the extra spicy mustard.)

I have NO idea why there are negative reviews of this show.
As an avid Seagal fan, who has seen ALL his movies, & owns several of them; I have been disappointed in the past by some of his releases.

Foreigner being one of them.

Flight of Fury is an excellent show! I thought the fight scenes were ok, not as good as we have seen before...but good.

I will be buying this one! SEE THIS MOVIE!

The style of Flight of Fury (2007) is kind of a throwback to 80's arena style military air adventures, though the story is shaky story, and special effects subpar. Steven Seagal is John Sands, an ex-air force pilot recruited for a mission to recover a stolen X-77 stealth bomber. Sand's former student, USAF Colonel Ratcher (Steve Toussaint) has taken the plane to Afghanistan, where the Black Sunday terrorist group, plans to arm it with biological weapons, and then strike Europe and America.

Under the command of General Barnes (Angus MacInnes), Sands and Captain Jannick (Mark Bazeley), are sent to Afghanistan, backed by a SEAL team. When the SEAL's are wiped out, and Jannick is captured, Sands turns to Jessica (Cierra Payton), an undercover agent, to try and salvage the mission. With the help of Rojar (Alki Davis), another local ally, they mount a raid on the air base, and Sands manages to get the X-77 in the air. It is along way back to Edwards AFB, with Ratcher in pursuit in an F-16.

Flight of Fury rates low marks for credibility. We are in trouble, if the military chain of command operates anything like this, where clowns like General Barnes are running cowboy missions, just to cover his own butt. Starting a war is evidently not a concern to Barnes, as he orders the destruction of the enemy base.

How Sands is able to land a USAF plane safely at an Afghan airfield is a mystery. Since he departs in the X-77, his original plane was apparently left as a goodwill gift from America. It is amazingly fortuitous that the beautiful Jessica, who coincidentally is a close friend of Sands, just happens to be living near where Black Sunday is headquartered.

The 'special' effects for the stealth effect are passable, and the brief air battle relies heavily on editing to convey the impression that the action is continuous. It appears that stock footage was used for some of the battle scenes, both in the air and on the ground. The fight scenes are rather messy, and not that well done. The dialog throughout the film is horrible, with hardly a line not sounding like some stupid cliché.

Flight of Fury is cartoonish effort that's mildly entertaining if you turn your critical meter way down. The script is reality challenged, and the budget was probably insufficient to provide decent special effects. The wide scope of the film, deflects the focus from Seagal, which probably serves well here, as being an obedient subordinate that follows orders, really isn't his thing. Presentation is widescreen, and like Seagal's previous direct to video releases, the DVD contains no bonus materials.

Give the man a break! Yes, "Attack Force" was horrible but this one is worth to be watched.

The opening scenes were quite good and after ten or fifteen minutes, "Flight of Fury" seemed quite promising. Unfortunately, it didn't last very long and soon it became like the rest of Seagal's recent movies: a mix of average to below average action sequences mixed into an incoherent story. Although not as bad as "Attack Force" or "Mercenary for Justice", "Flight of Fury" is still a rather bad action movie, and it makes you wonder if he'll ever make a decent movie again (He came close with "Out of Reach" and "Into the Sun".)

Let me begin by saying that I am a huge fan of Steven Seagal. I love his movies, even the newer ones; I thought A Dangerous Man and The Keeper were entertaining action movies.

But Flight of Fury is horrible, downright devastating to watch. It took me three viewings to complete the film. It was slow-moving, and when there was action, most of it was stock footage of fighter jets dancing around in the skies. When I watch a Seagal movie I want to see Seagal breaking dudes' arms and tossing them, in slo-mo, through storefront windows, I don't want to see fighter jets doing stunts in the sky. For that, I'll watch Top Gun.

Another thing that hurt this movie was Seagal was barely in the thing. You hear his voice a lot as he flies his jet, but then it's not even his own voice. It's a voiceover actor! I know he uses a voiceover actor in most of his newer movies, but some of them aren't too bad. Most of the time, they are used to correct the sound in scenes where it appeared his voice was too low and inaudible. But when you have a movie where you barely see his face, and you rely on hearing his voice, it does more damage than good. Hell, most of the time I didn't even feel like I was watching a Seagal movie.

If you're a diehard Seagal fan, check it out; just to say you saw it. If you're not, stay away, stay far away...

It was a cool dvd, a good movie not one of his best movies but ok to me, the plans were cool, i wish he would make more movies and not with words that not his own just subtitled words, maybe he can get back onto A list movies

I'm not sure why people are trashing on this film. Sure there are a few inconsistencies in the story but this is actually one of the better Seagal films I've seen recently. I'm more of a fan of his military-style movies (which this one is) rather than his cop films. There's a lot to like in this film if you are a Seagal fan or a fan of military-style B-movies. The fighting and action scenes look pretty well done and unlike a couple of his recent films I've seen, it's not obvious that a stunt double is doing most of the work. There is some cute girl on girl action, though brief (LOL) and some cool military aircraft. All-in-all I liked it.


**contains spoilers** At the end of the film, why does the black pilot worry about chasing down Seagal's character in air? He's trying to talk Seagal into landing the stealth so that they can sale it on the black market, but if Seagal was going to consider this, wouldn't he have done that back at the hangar before they got into the air? Plus, once it's clear that Seagal isn't going to land the stealth, why does the black pilot knowing he is in an inferior plane, attempt to shoot it down? He's already received a large sum of money that he got from the Arabs when he killed the main "bad guy" and before he killed him, he already found out that the wire transfer had been initiated. So why not just fly off in the F-16 which is probably worth some money on the black market as well, and keep the money he's already got? I suppose you could argue that it is a "pride thing" - the student wanted to defeat the master, but it's a really weak plot point in my opinion.

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" here and follow it up with the much-applauded Urban Justice shortly afterwards. Seriously, I have no idea how he does it...and neither, given his iffy track record, does he.

The story: after escaping from a memory wipe session by military minds wary of his acquired knowledge, pilot John Sands (Seagal) is recaptured by the Air Force but offered his freedom in exchange for bringing back a stolen prototype stealth bomber set to be sold by a treasonous jet ace (Steve Toussaint, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time). Aided by a young airman (Mark Bazeley, The Damned United), John must travel undetected into northern Afghanistan, 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" being a good action flick - the cool effect used in the opening credits helped cultivate this - but I was soon brought back down to earth when it became clear that this is 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 in post-production. Still, that doesn't mean his ego can't be dutifully stroked: besides his character being lauded as both the best pilot and martial artist in existence, 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 lackluster fight scenes and shootouts. There's much less doubling than usual when it comes to the hand-to-hand stuff but it's all still pretty uninspired.

To the film's credit, the editing and cinematography - with the exception of the stock footage used for almost every shot featuring an airplane - is a step above average for Seagal's flicks. Seagal also looks in better physical 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 movie 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.

The movie "Flight of Fury" is a festival of bad acting, stock footage and an aging star past his prime by 10 years.

The following are 7 reasons Flight of Fury resembles a poor attempt at making an action movie:

1. The box depicts a thin Seagal under 300lbs.
2. Corny airplane on the box cover,which is not even the same plane
in the movie.
3. A plot that makes no sense.
4. Seagal has a double for walking in and out of doors and fight
scences.
5. The double can be clearly seen during fight scences.
6. Seagal's voice is dubbed at times.
7. Seagal is always in bad lightening.
8. NO ACTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RENT FLIGHT OF FURY AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!
IT WILL CAUSE CONFUSION, FRUSTRATION AND A LOSS OF MONEY!!!!!!!!