Flight of Fury

Plot synopsis:
Air Force pilot John Sands (Steven Seagal) has been wrongfully imprisoned in a military detention center where his memory is to be chemically wiped out. His superiors feel threatened by the knowledge he gained from his assignments to operations that were deemed too sensitive for regular intelligence services.
A top secret Air Force Stealth Bomber known as the X-77, capable of going anywhere undetected, is stolen by corrupt Air Force pilot Ratcher (Steve Toussaint). General Tom Barnes (Angus MacInnes), Sands' former commander, hears that Sands was arrested after taking down a group of men who were robbing a rest stop. It is revealed that Sands is Ratcher's trainer, Barnes sends Sands to northern Afghanistan with fellow pilot Rick Jannick (Mark Bazeley) to recover the X-77, by promising Sands that he will be a free man if he succeeds. Barnes has Admiral Frank Pendleton (Tim Woodward), who is on an aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Arabia, keep a team of pilots on standby just in case an air attack needs to be launched on the compound where the X-77 has been hidden.
Before Sands and Jannick arrive in Afghanistan, a Navy SEAL team that was planted there to meet them is killed by a group of men led by Eliana Reed (Katie Jones). Eliana kidnaps Jannick, and she takes him to her boss, Peter Stone (Vincenzo Nicoli), the man who paid Ratcher $100 million to steal the X-77. In a village close to Stone's compound, Sands meets up with his contacts Jessica and Rojar (Alki David).
As it turns out, Stone was born from a Muslim mother and a British father. Stone had spent his childhood in the Middle East, but was educated at Oxford. Stone's mother was killed in an attack by U.S. troops during Desert Storm, and as a result, a vengeful Stone formed the Black Sunday terrorist group. It is revealed that Eliana is Stone's second in command. She trains with a various guerrilla groups in the region, giving Stone the foundation he needs.
Now, Stone plans to use the X-77 and its pinpoint precision to drop two biological warfare bombs undetected one of them on Europe, and one of them on the United States. Stone plans to pay Ratcher another $100 million to fly the X-77 and drop the two bombs. Sands, Jessica, and Rojar, make plans to get into Stone's compound and launch an attack, but Stone has about 60 heavily armed mercenaries guarding the compound. Rojar starts a gun fight between the terrorists while Sands rescues Jannick. After a feud about the money, Ratcher shoots and kills Stone.
Sands takes on a few of the terrorists by hand as Jessica shoots and kills Eliana. Jannick catches Ratcher while Sands and Jessica leave in the X-77 but Ratcher manages to shoot him and get up in the air in a F16. After a brief dogfight, Sands manages to shoot Ratcher down and returns home.

Tags: violence

Review:
The producers can't be bothered to make anything remotely good, promising a 12 or so million dollar budget, and (after Seagal's obligatory 5 million) probably pocketing a nice hefty chunk of it themselves (If the film was made for the remaining 7 million, then I'm Elvis Pressley!).
Michael Keusch directs with some efficiency, while the cinematography is quite good, but in all technical areas (and as usual with Castel, a bog standard stunt team) there's nothing more than mediocrity, and nothing to help the film rise above its material, and bored leading man.
'Flight Of Fury' is a shockingly dire but worst of all boring Action Film - I don't expect a lot from a Seagal Film, all I expect is to be moderately entertained for 90 or so minutes with some mindless action -unfortunately this doesn't even achieve that low expectation, The action scenes are few and far between, the plot (which is totally irrelevant in these Films) is needlessly complicated and confusing with huge plot holes throughout, The acting is truly abysmal - bordering on embarrassing with Seagal and his whispering One expression performance being the best among the sorry lot of 3rd raters - I find it hard to believe that anything close to $12M was spent on this dire mess unless $11M of that 12 was Seagal's Salary - I somehow doubt it!
The one moment of any interest to Straight guys or gay girls is that out of seemingly nowhere two hot chicks end up in a lesbian sex scene of sorts complete with huge baps on display other than that - It's mediocre stuff which is no different to many of the Michael Dudikoff B-Movies I've endured1/10.
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..
Who would have thought that a Steven Seagal movie would employ loads of stock footage in it?
The flight scenes were far better some twenty years ago in "Top Gun" and the acting not very good.
There's even a lesbian scene here (completely out of the blue and pointless) but they're always quite the eye candy.All in all, not a good movie by any means but for fans of Steve it may be worth the hour and a half on a slow night..
I was convinced do watch this movie by worlds like action, F-117 and other hi-tech stuff, but by only few first minutes and I changed my mind...
You have seen it ones, and that was not worth re-running 3 or 4 times.It is time for Steven Seagal to retire from movie-making.His movies are getting worser every time.Black Dawn, and Submerged were already bad, but this movie is even worse..
Steven Seagal appears to be sleepwalking through a dreadful movie shot almost entirely in close-up to disguise the complete lack of budget and resources.
Ironically this film tries to cash in on this audience which a 'lesbian love scene' which is utterly cringe-worthy.Special Effects - wouldn't look out of place in a 60's sword and sorcery flick.Unless you suffer from insomnia and have exhausted all other cures, don't make the same mistake as i did and buy this DVD, as you will be asking for that hour and a half of your life back..
FLIGHT OF FURY takes the mantle of being the very WORST Steven Seagal flick I've ever seen...up to now.It's a dreadful bore with no action scenes of any interest, Seagal isn't really trying in this - he's fat and his voice is dubbed once more.The co-stars fare no better, being a rather sorry load of 3rd raters.The Direction by Keusch is very poor and it comes as no surprise that he's also responsible for another couple of Seagal stinkers (SHADOW MAN & ATTACK FORCE) The screenplay Co-written by Seagal himself is laughably inept.According to IMDb $12M was spent on this boring load of old tosh - more like $1.2MFLIGHT OF FURY is actually a shot for shot remake of the Michael Dudikoff flick BLACK THUNDER - A B-movie remake of a B-movie.This has NO redeeming qualities whatsoever,Give it a MISS!
The aeroplane action scenes where better than I expected them to be after reading some of the reviews of this film, and the acting was I thought OK.
There is not so much hand to hand fight scenes in this film as in other Seagal movies which might disappoint some Seagal fans,however, we do have a lesbian scene midway through the film with Steve lurking in the background looking a little like a seedy voyeur.
Steve does tend to mumble his lines at times so we are not sure what he has said, but still most Seagal fans should find this a decent movie..
Well, I can once and for all put an end to the question: 'What is the worst movie ever made...ever?' It is Flight of Fury, starring and co-written by Steven Seagal.
OK yes this is a direct to video movie but you know that not all direct to video movies are bad especially Steven seagals they just like his other ones lots of action good fighting scenes got a good story to it etc the only thing different is that it was not in theatres.
Seagal was really in his prime when he did movies like; Under Siege, Under Siege 2, and Executive Decision(at least on the action standpoint), but during the past ten years, these types of movies that star Segal really do not meet his past qualifications.On the more positive side, the movie did make good use of time, like some of the action sequences and use of wit.
But the enjoyment of these direct to video, low budget, foreign made movies is dependent on, as a Seagal fan, would you rather he retire and therefore be remembered in his prime, or continue to work with results such as this?
He escapes, of course, gets arrested and is located by his old general who needs his one man in a million experience to get back a stealth plane that has been handed over to a terrorist gang in Afghanastan by a rogue Air Force pilot who, surprise, surprise, Segal trained.
he was my hero for all time until he went along with {if you can call it a movie} I went to the show to watch it and come out and not just asking for me money back but asked for double the money thats how bad my hero's acting and the hole thing was.............I can't believe that Steven Segal's career has hit so low that he has been reduced to making 4th rate films with 5th rate secondary actors.
When he is reduced to using a single judo chop between the shoulder blades to take out an opponent and the guy falls like a ton of bricks something is wrong.The plot is unbelievable as a movie, and even if you excuse the visuals, and had read this story as a novel, you'd be left wondering why you had even picked up the book.Steven Segal goes through the motions and seems as if he is only doing this because he is under obligation.
When he is reduced to using a single judo chop between the shoulder blades to take out an opponent and the guy falls like a ton of bricks something is wrong.The plot is unbelievable as a movie, and even if you excuse the visuals, and had read this story as a novel, you'd be left wondering why you had even picked up the book.Steven Segal goes through the motions and seems as if he is only doing this because he is under obligation.
The zappruder film showing President John F Kennedy being assassinated is steadier and cleaner.My honest opinion is to tell you not to waste your time seeing this movie, it is not up to the standards of his work in the glimmer man or exit wounds.
The zappruder film showing President John F Kennedy being assassinated is steadier and cleaner.My honest opinion is to tell you not to waste your time seeing this movie, it is not up to the standards of his work in the glimmer man or exit wounds.
is about John Sands (The Big Man) who has to stop a renegade pilot from giving a powerful jet plane to "Romanian Russians" (?).The good news is that this is a step up from "Attack Force", which is great, and it looks like Seagal was trying.
This movie is chock, and I mean chock full of stock footage from other movies like "Stealth Fighter" and "Black Thunder".
Every aerial shot is mismatched.There's some good action and explosions toward the end, and Seagal's one liner is "Hell Yeah" which is funny.
Seagal gives one of his laziest and phoned-in performances here, but fortunately for him he isn't the only bad thing about Flight of Fury, next to nothing works.
you gotta love the girls going at it in this one,, what a way to get the opponent off-guard,, i know i would have died for sure,, this one is better than the last couple of flops, this one along with Pistol Whipped, and Merc , for Justice,, his films are slowly getting better Seagal fans,, this movie, kinda starts off like Broken Arrow,, but goes in a different direction.
Seagal does have some good fighting scenes,, especially with knives, not much dubbing his voice this time.
The plot was pretty typical,, but i think that the action more than makes up for it, i think it will only take 1 movie to go to the theatres for Seagal to get back on track..
I had a chance to see flight of fury from our UBC, I could say I've seen it more than 2 or 3 times, I could say it was good but there was something that bother my mind every time I looked to this movie, almost at the last part of the movie when the admiral decided to order the fighter to make bombard to the location where they put the powerful stealth aircraft, from the movie I could see the fighter left the carrier, If I am not wrong, I would say it was F14 Tomcats were departed the carrier.
FLIGHT OF FURY is another lacklustre effort from Seagal, a low budget, shot-in-Eastern-Europe escapade about a renegade pilot who steals one of the US's new planes and takes it to the Middle East.
He's got a stand-in for much of the fight scenes, his voice is doubled on occasion (my biggest pet peeve) and even scenes of him just walking or running around use another black-haired guy who's about ten years younger and who looks nothing like Seagal.To add insult to injury, Seagal seems bored and tired of the whole thing, going through his dialogue and fight scenes with a relentless monotony.
Stock footage of stealth bombers and ships is shown routinely and it's all completely boring.The supporting cast are mostly unfamiliar, although as this was made with some British financing there are a few Brits making up the numbers including Steve Toussaint's far-too-nice bad guy.
If you want to see Steven Seagal in his prime then don't watch "Flight of Fury".
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.
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.
General Barnes is worried by the loss of his plane & sends in one man army John Sands (co-writer & executive producer Steven Seagal) to get it back & kill all the bad guy's in the process...This American, British & Romanian co-production was directed by Michael Keusch & was the third film in which he directed Seagal after the equally awful Shadow Man (2006) & Attack Force (2007), luckily someone decided the partnership wasn't working & an unsuspecting public have thankfully been spared any further collaboration's between the two.
Flight of Fury is a terrible film, the poorly made & written waste of time that Seagal specialises in these days.
The action scenes are lame & there's no real excitement in it, the villains are boring as are the heroes & it's right down there with the worst Seagal has made.Flight of Fury seems to be made up largely of stock footage which isn't even matched up that well, the background can change, peoples clothes change, the area changes, the sky & the quality of film changes very abruptly as it's all too obvious we are watching clips from other (better) films spliced in.
The action scenes consist of shoot-outs so badly edited it's hard to tell who is who & of course Seagal breaking peoples arms.
The acting is terrible as one would expect & Seagal looks dubbed again.Flight of Fury is a terrible action film that is boring, amateurish & is an almost scene-for-scene remake of another film anyway.
Seagal seems a little more energetic in the action scenes, and looks a little trimmer than usual.
And the endless (i.e, borrowed, flight and naval footage) could soon form the basis of a new 'drinking game' (down a shot of whisky, when a military H.Q of any kind, comes into shot......you'll be drunk in 30 minutes) Seagal must retrieve an ultra-hi-tech Stealth fighter plane (with invisibility cloaking) from the Afghanistan terrorists, after his own student (and fellow pilot) steals it for the highest bidder.
Steven Seagal movies have never been Oscar material but with each passing release they get worse and worse.This one starts with Seagal getting picked up by the FBI because he killed a few people 'in self defence' he's active military so is saved from jail to rescue a stolen Stealth plane that will be used by the cliché 'evil English villain' that Hollywood is so obsessed with including these days.Suffice to say the film has terrible dialog that is almost always delivered with a hefty topping of cheese and lack of acting talent.
The story isn't interesting and there are segments of it which make absolutely no sense and do not add anything to the story, characters of movie as a whole such as the 'lesbian' interaction between the two main females in the cast which is there purely for titilation to get viewers and yet isn't even titilating just confusing as it makes no sense as to why it happened when it didn't need to.In short a terrible script with bad dialog, delivered by sub-par actors, boring and at times badly choreographed action scenes, and non-relevant parts that only serve to achieve the near-impossible and make the movie even worse.Save 98 minutes of your life and give this miss, even if you are Seagal's most ardent fan..
The classic b-movie showdown, really a lot of gunfights and so on, the last 15 minutes are excellent, and everything is done better than in Attack Force and better than in Shadow Man (as example this time the car-hunt is not so bad like in Shadow Man).
At the End after a 10 minute long showdown at the base Steven flies with his stealth bomber against his enemy in a F16, it was entertaining4/5Fights: So, were not back to the good old times There aren't much fights...
All short fight and action scenes are made by Seagal himself i think, but i didn't look sooo closely.5/5Acting/Shape: Steven looked great.
Even the flight action scenes (like the last fight at the end) are made very well, and were put really good together.
An awesome showdown, good gunfights, great using of stock footage, Steven looking better than ever, good actors, some pretty decent fights and a really easy to follow straight forwarded story.
It consists of stock footage for a lot of the plane shots, and Seagal looks bored to tears, phoning it in at least in almost every scene.
When a stealth bomber with the latest technical secrets is stolen, a general must get his best pilot John (Steven Seagal) out of prison to bring it back.
Seagal may be miscast as a pilot; he was more convincing in the good old "my fist, your face" fight movies.
flight of fury is an overall decent action flick.Even if it isn't in the level of under siege e.t.c it is still satisfying if you are looking for an action movie.it certainly has its flaws but if you skip them you will have a good timedubbing:some in the beginning and a line in the end.
Next time give me 90 minutes of Seagal killing people, and don't even bother with a story line, because the storyline not only stunk, but so did the acting, the fact that F-18's and F-14's somehow changed into F-16s, and also the fact that the Stealth was as fast as an F-16.
After a long, long absence from film reviewing, I'm back and this time I'm reviewing a Steven Seagal movie.
Predictably, he gets called on to find a hijacked, top-secret stealth bomber before it falls in the hands of stereotypical terrorists."Flight of Fury" is far from being one of the worst films that Seagal has ever done.