Flight of Fury (2007)

Good movie but grossly overrated

Don't listen to the negative reviews

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Are all movie directors idiots? If a guy throws a hand grenade it goes off as if it was a four gallon air-fuel incendiary with a 12 foot fireball. It all has to be huge plumes of fire and smoke. So childishly theatrical. I wish directors would treat their audiences with more respect and assume we actually have intelligence. It's not just low-budget plank- fests like this that do it either; if anything it's the bigger the budget the bigger the explosions. A bit of reality might work, try it for a change.I really like and respect Sensei Seagal, but I can see he is struggling with this lame-ass script. I guess he has bills to pay like me.

I have always been a fan of a good Segal romp, even a bad Segal romp, but this takes the biscuit. I have just sat through this and agree with previous reviews, the ONLY good bit about the movie is the completely unnecessary brief girl-on-girl scene.The direction is terrible, the script is worse, the sound quality is dire and the (ab)use and rapid repetition of stock footage is diabolical, especially during flight scenes.I've not written a movie review on here before, but this film was so bad it actually drove me to warn other movie-lovers NOT to watch this one.

this is a decent little action flick for a quite night in, this time steven seagal has been sent to find a stolen stealth fighter, and as any good steven seagal movie does, he kicks ass, pure and simple steven seagal is still bad ass, sure he's got a little older, and put a bit of wheight on but he's still the most badass action hero out there, and while this movie is no classic, it delivers, it's an action movie, and you get plenty of it as seagal breaks necks, wrists, throws knives in ya through, this is good stuff, and definitely better than some of the movies he's bought out of recent times, and too me at least he proves here he's still got what it takes and is still the king of cool. bottem line it's a standard steven seagal movie if you like his movies, your gonna dig this, if you don't then you won't simple. but definitely recommended to seagal fans

Steven Seagal, Mr. Personality himself, this time is the United States' greatest Stealth pilot who is promised a pardon from the military(..who attempted to swipe his memory at the beginning of the movie for which he escaped base, later caught after interrupting a gang of robbers in a shootout at a gas station)if he is able to successfully infiltrate a Northern Afghanistan terrorist base operated by a group called Black Sunday, who have commandeered an Air Force stealth fighter thanks to an American traitor. Along with a fellow pilot who admired the traitor, Jannick(Mark Bazeley), John Sands(Seagal)will fly into enemy territory, receiving help from his Arab lover, Jessica(Ciera Payton)and a freedom fighter, Rojar(Alki David) once they are on ground. Jannick is kidnapped by Black Sunday leaders, Stone(Vincenzo Nicoli)and his female enforcer, Eliana(Katie Jones), and Sands must figure out how to not only re-take command of the kidnapped stealth fighter, but rescue him as well. And, maybe, Sands can get revenge on the traitor he trained, Rather(Steve Toussaint)in the process. Sands has 72 hours until a General's Navy pilots bomb the entire area. On board the stealth, Black Sunday equipped a biochemical bomb, hoping to detonate it on the United States.Seagal gets a chance to shoot Afghans when he isn't slicing their throats with knives. The film is mostly machine guns firing and bodies dropping dead. The setting of Afghanistan doesn't hold up to scrutiny(..nor does how easily Seagal and co. are able to move about the area undetected so easily) and the plot itself is nothing to write home about. The movie is edited fast, the camera a bit too jerky. Seagal isn't as active a hero as he once was and his action scenes are tightly edited where we have a hard time seeing him taking out his foes, unlike the good old days. One of Seagal's poorest efforts, and he's as understated as ever(..not a compliment). Even more disappointing is the fact that Seagal never fights in hand to hand combat with the film's chief villains, tis a shame. He doesn't even snap a wrist or crack a neck in any visible way(..sure we see a slight resemblance of some tool getting tossed around, but it's not as clear a picture as I enjoy because the filmmakers have such fast edits and dizzying close-ups).