Stealth

I went to see this movie on July 30 2005 at Old Capitol Mall in Iowa City at the 7:20pm showing.

This film centers around a triad group of Naval pilots who are the cream of the crop. Training for highly covert missions, the team discovers their first live assignment will suddenly provide their formation with a fourth plane and unknown pilot. The new pilot turns out to be an AI device called EDI (pronounced Eddy) with the three pilots (Josh Lucas, Jennifer Biel, and Jamie Foxx) mistrustful in varying degrees of this new partner, which they dub Tin Man.

Stealth showers a slew of large explosions amid a subplot of pining love between 2 of the pilots (no not the 2 men) to try to serenade our heartstrings, however, the shallow scripting skews the plot while most of the movie is simply too fantastical to believe and too silly for us to care. If Jamie Foxx hadn't managed to prove in Ray and Collateral how terrific he can act, this sad tale would be hard pressed to show off such skills. Thankfully, he has moved to better pastures. The lead, Josh Lucas, simply can't pull off the movie despite being likeably cute as his screen presence simply isn't strong enough to be a leading man, although no-one could really have turned this film into a decent one by terrific acting alone.

This film isn't worth a rent on DVD or a see at the theatre. It did manage to get an decently large audience showing in the box office, likely those tricked into thinking it would be far more exciting. If you manage to get snared into watching this film, stealthily sneak out during the first 15 minutes so you won't waste almost 2 hours of your time. The film earns an okay rank for being only slightly above crummy.

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