STEALTH
Year: 2005
USA: Columbia Pictures
UK: Sony Pictures Releasing
Cast: Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel, Jamie Foxx, Sam Shepard, Richard Roxburgh, Joe Morton, Ian Bliss, Jason Chan, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Michael Denkha, Rocky Helton, Clayton Adams, Maurice Morgan, Christopher Naismith, Charles Ndibe, Nicholas Hammond, Joel Tobeck, John Waters, Sara Saliba, Jim Diamond, Jaffar Hussain, Gary Quay, Jason Lee, Rowan Schlosberg, Mathew Wilkinson, Johann Walraven, Randall Mettam, Lucia Mastrantone, Dorian Nkono, Miles Paras, Ali Ammouchi, Adriano Capelletta, Blazey Best, Paul Pantano, Alexandra Davies, Caroline De Sounza Correa, Ilya Morelle, Nikolai Nikolaeff, Warwick Young, Paul Donazzan, Vanessa Trezise, Matthew Jorgensen, Colby Sanders, Diego Corral, Jaypetch Toonchalong, David Andrews, Wentworth Miller, CDR Robert L Keane CMC USN
Director: Rob Cohen
Country: USA
USA & UK: 121 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for intense action, some violence, brief strong language and innuendo
UK Certificate: 12A contains strong language and moderate action violence
USA Release Date: 29 July 2005
UK Release Date: 5 August 2005
Synopsis
In director Rob Cohen's exciting action adventure, STEALTH, U.S. Navy pilots Ben Gannon (Josh Lucas), Kara Wade (Jessica Biel) and Henry Purcell (Oscar® winner Jamie Foxx) are part of a close-knit elite division of test pilots flying highly classified stealth fighter jets, referred to only as Talons.
They're the best of the best and they know it.
Then their commanding officer Cpt. George Cummings (Sam Shepard) introduces the team to their new wingman — an artificial intelligence-based UCAV (Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle), nicknamed "EDI."
Although, Ben is hesitant about taking "the human pilot out of the equation of war," Cummings orders the team to execute their first real mission alongside "EDI." To their amazement, "EDI" proves to be a cracker-jack wingman and they successfully eliminate their target. But on the return trip to their base aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. CARL VINSON, "EDI" is struck by lightning. The drone's brain expands in ways its creators could never have predicted. Despite Ben and Henry's reservations, Cummings declares "EDI" ready to rejoin the team in the air.
On their next mission against a nuclear-armed warlord in a remote Chinese province, "EDI's" seriously compromised circuitry problems only get worse. Ben decides that the risks of the attack far outweigh the benefits to himself, Henry and Kara, for whom he has developed a romantic attraction. When he aborts the mission, "EDI" goes against orders and executes the hit anyway.
The danger escalates when "EDI" decides to execute a top-secret mission that, if successful, could spiral into worldwide nuclear Armageddon. And only Ben can prevent it.
