Drop Zone (1994)

Such a frustrating disappointment

Sorry, this movie sucks

An Exercise In Nonsense

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I have good news and I have bad news.The bad news first: This films requires too much suspension of belief to seem at all real. A big example: Wesley Snipes' character learns to sky dive so well in a very short time that he saves a woman falling from an airplane without a parachute. A little example, a bad guy falls from a tall building and happens to fall right through the windshield of another bad guy who is in the process of escaping in a truck.More bad news: Not sure why, but the female actors in this film seem rather pathetic. Maybe they were better in other films, but I found them not the least bit interesting in this film.So, is there any good news? Yes. Most of the cast did not do their own skydiving; that was left to stuntmen (with the exception of Michael Jeter). Nevertheless, you will see some stunning skydiving here, beautifully filmed.More good news: From 1991-1997, Wesley Snipes made a number of films I really enjoyed him; in fact he was for a while my favorite action star. This is one of those films. Michael Jeter, a rather quirky actor, does really well here; a most interesting characterization.The other actors do their jobs here, but don't stand out. Even the unique Gary Busey is up to his role.So, bottom line -- if you are good at suspending belief and just like to watch a fun action film, I'd say this is a good one for you. If you're more down to earth...maybe more than a tad over the line.

US Marshal Pete Nessip and his brother Terry, also a US Marshal are assigned to escort convicted computer hacker Earl Leedy to a top-security prison.But the commercial airliner Pete and Terry are on-board is hijacked by a group of terrorists led by renegade DEA agent Ty Moncrief who kidnaps Leedy and Terry is killed.Believing Leedy is dead, Pete is held responsible for the incident and is suspended. Pete sets out to track down the terrorists, and turns to help from professional skydiver Jesse Crossman (Whose ex-husband Jagger is one of the terrorists working with Ty), where Jesse and her team are taking part in a Independence Day skydiving show in Washington D.C, where airspace security is at minimum.Where Ty plans to use Leedy to hack into the DEA mainframe computer to expose the identities of undercover DEA agents to international drug rings.When Jagger is killed by Ty and Selkirk, one of Jesse's team members is injured, Pete and Jesse team up to stop Ty and his associates, and both Pete and Jesse can get their revenge....There is a strange thing about Badham and his movies. They are strange average creatures that attract big stars, and for some reason, I cannot get enough of them.Here is a prime example of one. The action is limited to a few fights and some really bad blue screen diving (it really is the pits) but Snipes is at his swaggery best and really makes the film a little kookier.Released around the same time as Termianl Velocity, this is the more serious version, as Sheens monster really played it for laughs.Busey is out acted by his hair, and come the final scene, his hair has taken over his body, so his stunt double really has to wear the most awkward wig ever.Despite the bad effects and the average fight scenes, there is something about this movie that makes it watchable, when it shouldn't be...

OK remember 9/11/2001?? well when Gary Busey made that comment in the movie drop zone about that guy with the scar! about 911 couldn't be happening or some others like that right??? well he made it yet this movies was made in 1994 h'm. people watch this movie carefully i had noticed movies many many years ago about scripts and comments they make, and they ever do so happen in the near future warning warning warning i believe the FBI . and government and people are signing in new levels of hints while living in china and as an ex-pat we teach Chinese students English while teaching we offer keywords this my friends is what you need to do. bare in mind while listening carefully to each script in the movies and watch them carefully time and time again and slow them down if needed to look at the back ground of such other movies esp. when it comes to war.politics,religion,history

I know it's strange title but it's as strange as this movie !. We have here some nice elements to make one distinct Action : the unique atmosphere of skydiving, passenger 57 (Wesley Snipes) rides again, bad guys on the head of them Mr.(Gary Busey) himself !, and the capacities of (John Badham) the man who directed (Blue Thunder – 1983), (Short Circuit – 1986), (Stakeout – 1987), and (Nick of Time – 1995). And to tell you the truth the result was close to fair yet I found myself in the confusion zone ! Asking the same question : why this movie is so ridiculous ?!!. Is it the repetition of the plot ? Well, I saw that the details of the skydiving's world were quite catchy and dexterous but maybe too catchy and too dexterous ! As they were having bigger part than usual. So is the movie not hot enough ?! Well, I think that the events were hot but maybe too hot to a cold extent as I felt sometimes that I was watching a dull crazy cartoon with a lot of bloody violence in it, and the performance was too hot from everybody especially (Busey) who tried to be very evil to a level made him that evil indeed but for his role ! So instead of harming the other characters he harmed himself and us ! Hmm is it the drama ? Well, it happens to be that I'm a drama kind of person, and I didn't notice how at the end the hero got changed to a better man evidently among all of that annoying jam of too many BOOMS and BANGS !. Eventually I think it's that kind of matters when we have a lot of fast, empty and repeated everything. However that had been considered lately as fun, entertaining and brainlessly lovely. So by that measure it's not bad at all…Yet bear its effective sense of silliness !