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Excellent but underrated film

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Why was this on the Sci-fi Channel last night? Other than some off-putting babbling of a conspiracy theorist regarding aliens there was no mention of sci-fi themes at all. That theorist plot was plot c. Plot b, the love story of Midkiff and the blonde girlfriend who with her little girl leaves him before the 1st hour is over (having clearly giving up on getting more out of the relationship) was so annoying as the two had no real chemistry.Main plot was even more annoying with clichéd characters and big laspses in reality. Not one bullet touches "Rat" in the long, long shootout in the hangar sequence. No alarms around the electric fence, and no barb wire at the fence before the hanger holding the craft. Stupid and BORING. Only the presence of Shatner and Judd Nelson salvages this mess and makes me grant it a 4; it certainly isn't the writing.

Being a huge science fiction fan I picked this movie to balance out my wife's romantic comedy pick. Ironically, in spite of all the expectations of a terrible B grade movie, I was pleasantly surprised in some areas. OK, so there was a laughable storyline. Was this a blatant ripoff of that terrible 70's movie FIREFOX with Clint Eastwood? And if so, why would anybody choose to ripoff such a disaster to begin with? Dale Midkiff couldn't act his way out of a paperbag, much less this movie. The CGI special effects were embarrassingly bad and were barely a step above 1950's Buck Roger's flying saucers. BUT here's the good stuff. Judd Nelson is actually pretty good in this film. Maybe I'm so used to seeing him in his typical schoolboy role, but he really does a reasonable convincing job as the conspirator. And any opportunity to watch William Shatner is always good. The set design was surprisingly good for a movie that probably didn't have much for sets. A very interesting design for the flight deck, especially from an aircraft buff like myself. And a nice design for the aircraft itself, reminiscent of the old Valkyrie experimental airplanes that were mothballed by the airforce after a few disastrous test flights.

An ex-fighter pilot(Dale Midkiff)uncovers a military conspiracy after he is asked by the U.S. Government to steal a supersonic plane carrying a very deadly secret weapon. Little real action. No thrills. Mediocre special effects. Far fetched Sci-Fi. Most characters are over acted. A bad imitation of a good movie. The cast also includes: Cliff Robertson, William Shatner, Judd Nelson and Jennifer Rubin. Question: Does Midkiff actually report to the IRS that he is an actor?

The blurb on the DVD case lied when I saw this in the shop but thank goodness I had only paid 9 dollars for it. If ever one could win an award for making an awful movie this is it. The blurb told me it would be a somewhat exciting film but it was in my opinion woefully disappointing. The action scenes didn't contain much action, and the little video segments bordered on the hilarious.In short don't waste your money buying this film but if you must see it rent it.