Whilst it's a marked improvement from the dreadful Attack Force (mind you, you'd be hard pressed to make worse) Flight Of Fury still suffers from too much padding, and needless build-up. Seagal seems a little more energetic in the action scenes, and looks a little trimmer than usual. However, he spend too much time in a cockpit (uttering "Roger That!") or stood around, whilst the film-makers are tragically under-using his (still) mighty star presence. The 'voice dubbing' problem is also very evident...again! 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. Once again, the synopsis (on paper) sounds exciting enough, but there are just too many scenes of naval commandos discussing the whereabouts of Seagal (probably to pad out Seagals limited involvement?) There's some nice (small) fights near the end (and in slo-mo, they all look like Seagal) but as usual, these brutal fight scenes, are edited together too quickly (when will a director ever zoom back, and showcase Seagals technique, to it's maximum potential?)
All in all, with a bigger budget and less padding, Flight Of Fury could have easily slipped into theatres around the world. However, it's limited budget (and sometimes limited imagination) forever consign it to s-t-v hell, which is a shame, because on paper (as previously stated) it seemed an exciting change of pace for the stout sensei.
All in all, i'd give it a 6, but to casual viewers, i'd give it 4 to 5
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. Once again, the synopsis (on paper) sounds exciting enough, but there are just too many scenes of naval commandos discussing the whereabouts of Seagal (probably to pad out Seagals limited involvement?) There's some nice (small) fights near the end (and in slo-mo, they all look like Seagal) but as usual, these brutal fight scenes, are edited together too quickly (when will a director ever zoom back, and showcase Seagals technique, to it's maximum potential?)
All in all, with a bigger budget and less padding, Flight Of Fury could have easily slipped into theatres around the world. However, it's limited budget (and sometimes limited imagination) forever consign it to s-t-v hell, which is a shame, because on paper (as previously stated) it seemed an exciting change of pace for the stout sensei.
All in all, i'd give it a 6, but to casual viewers, i'd give it 4 to 5