1/1/2024 0 Comments Dropzone full movieAre there no modems or telephones lines in the Drop Zone universe? Not important. He offers Leedy freedom if follows them into the DEA building and hacks their mainframe, instantly proving that Leedy is the world’s worst hacker if he needs to be working on the same computer he is meant to be hacking. ![]() He wants to steal the names of undercover agents and sell them to drug lords. The high security building is the DEA headquarters. The leader is Ty Moncrief (Gary Busey) and he’s also an ex-DEA agent with a vendetta. Meanwhile, Leedy is held captive by some low-life’s who need him to hack into a high security building. He pays her back with a punch her to the face. Probably does that with all first-time jumpers. She jumps after him and latches on for a tandem jump. And by that, I mean she literally drops him out of the plane. She takes Pete up in her plane to give him an idea of what it would be like to drop from a jet airliner. She’s belligerent, sassy, sexy, and no fan of the law. So he does, but all he finds is his rowdy ex-wife, Jessie, who runs a skydiving school. ![]() He discovers that some SEALs (Military dudes, not aquatic mammals) did a rescue training jump from 28,000 feet and is told that if he’s interested in finding a guy who might be crazy enough to attempt what Pete thinks happened, they should go see some fella named Dominic Jagger. So he surrenders his badge and gun and decides to take things into his own hands. Blame it on the seasoned law enforcement officer instead. (I said cockamamie.) But why should anyone believe him? Right? No branch of investigation would ever consider the testimony of an eyewitness. But Pete’s not convinced, though no one believes his cockamamie theory about a prison break at 38,000 feet. He also gets blamed for over reacting and causing fourteen deaths because why not? And that bitten finger. Oh, and Terry the brother gets sucked out and dies. No one.įine, they take over the plane, kidnap Leedy, bite off one of his fingers, yes, you heard that right, blow a hole in the fuselage and jump out. They are putting on bulletproof vests, parachutes, oxygen masks, goggles, and arming themselves with guns found in the seats. They are putting on bulletproof vests, parachutes, oxygen masks, goggles, and arming themselves with guns found in the seat-backs. They are seated right among the passengers. This scene is the single most unbelievably, lame-headed, insulting, ridiculous, idiotic, moronic, stupid, ninny-brained, cock-eyed, who-the-hell-let-this-happen moment in all of cinema. But I feel I need to say this, and I’ll be as respectful to the art of film making as well as I can. Now I don’t want to get all concerned with the little things in film and be that guy who rags on every minor problem. Did he just find guns behind the tray table of the seat in front of him? Yes he did. comedy! But hey! Isn’t that Gary Busey taking a seat on that plane? Yes it is. Now they are on a 747 flying to the new prison and Leedy is excessively worried about three cats he befriended at the previous jail that for some reason are also along for the ride because. We learn that the stabby thing is because our gawky inmate (named Earl Leedy) is a key material witness in a trial. Marshals, so in come Terry and Pete Nessip (Yup, an anagram of Snipes!), brothers who have small talk in the ride over about things like blind dates and sex lives because. Tough-guy one-liners, awesome stunts, sexy ladies, and the bad guys get what’s comin’ to ‘em.REVIEW: So there’s this genius nerdy gangly fellow locked up in prison with some highly developed hacking skills that needs a transfer to a more secure facility because some of the other inmates are getting stabby with him. And that seems to be in very high demand nowadays - The Fast and The Furious, anyone? ![]() It just has to be loud enough and fast enough to shake loose all that is weighing us down, and give us someplace to hide for two hours. It doesn’t need to be smart, or even particularly well-made. We can dial out, suspend our reality and just disappear into two hours of non-stop action. But they give us something else, too, something that gets lost a lot of the time: an ESCAPE. These are the sort of movies that gave us Michael Bay. I have clear memories of catching Point Break on some weekend when we had a free preview of Cinemax, and of seeing Cliffhanger in the theater with my folks, of huddling around one of those big old TVs that sat on the floor and weighed 200 pounds, watching Gleaming the Cube with my friends (yeah, that was the 80s, and a slightly different subgenre, but whatever, you know what I mean). Still, I do have a love for these 90s action movies.
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