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Don't listen to the negative reviews

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Why was this on the Sci-fi Channel last night? Other than some off-putting babbling of a conspiracy theorist regarding aliens there was no mention of sci-fi themes at all. That theorist plot was plot c. Plot b, the love story of Midkiff and the blonde girlfriend who with her little girl leaves him before the 1st hour is over (having clearly giving up on getting more out of the relationship) was so annoying as the two had no real chemistry.Main plot was even more annoying with clichéd characters and big laspses in reality. Not one bullet touches "Rat" in the long, long shootout in the hangar sequence. No alarms around the electric fence, and no barb wire at the fence before the hanger holding the craft. Stupid and BORING. Only the presence of Shatner and Judd Nelson salvages this mess and makes me grant it a 4; it certainly isn't the writing.

Film...the final insult. These are the voyages of the aircraft "Falcon." Her 2-hour mission: To revisit tired, old clichés, to seek out the phone-it-in skills of William Shatner and Judd Nelson, to hammily go where too many action films have gone before!Seriously, folks, AVOID THIS FILM AT ALL COSTS. I saw it on the Action Channel, and although it purported to be a thriller, it was bloody funny. Not that it intended to be, mind you. However, with the talents of William Shatner (Does anyone even remember he debuted with Yul Brenner in "The Brothers Karamozov?") and Judd Nelson (the jock in "The Breakfast Club," now playing a computer geek with a gun), a penchant to use every cliché convention in the book (the psycho cowboy who lives only to shoot, the overbearing use of "videotaped" confession segments --often with NO RELATION TO THE DAMN PLOT), and writers who have no conception of the laws of physics or how a bloody airplane works, I can do nothing but laugh or whimper -- "limper," maybe? In the end, all I can say is that it made no sense. It was, to steal from a far superior writer "A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

An ex-fighter pilot(Dale Midkiff)uncovers a military conspiracy after he is asked by the U.S. Government to steal a supersonic plane carrying a very deadly secret weapon. Little real action. No thrills. Mediocre special effects. Far fetched Sci-Fi. Most characters are over acted. A bad imitation of a good movie. The cast also includes: Cliff Robertson, William Shatner, Judd Nelson and Jennifer Rubin. Question: Does Midkiff actually report to the IRS that he is an actor?

The blurb on the DVD case lied when I saw this in the shop but thank goodness I had only paid 9 dollars for it. If ever one could win an award for making an awful movie this is it. The blurb told me it would be a somewhat exciting film but it was in my opinion woefully disappointing. The action scenes didn't contain much action, and the little video segments bordered on the hilarious.In short don't waste your money buying this film but if you must see it rent it.