It's sad to see how Steven Seagal has, somehow, become the outcast of 'mainstream' Hollywood, as he nowadays lives in a camper trailer-truck with a German chauffeur driver, somewhere in Romania. Something is definitely not right in his U.S. Homeland.
The movie starts off with a U.S. military prison somewhere in LA. If you missed the caption telling that, you would immediately believe it was a modern day Nazi/SS detainee camp, where medical 'doctors' pray on their inmates brains. And indeed John Sands' (Seagal's) brain memory is ordered to be erased by 'high command'. Next a X-77 stealth fighter is tested and hijacked, where old-timer general Barnes has no alternative as for Seagal's envoy mission into Afghan territory to fly the X-77 home.
It's interesting to see how Seagal only shows obedience to these old-timer U.S. Military Generals. A sure hint that recent changes in the military command could very well be seen as a silent coup, where Seagal on a earlier mission winded up in military confinement, where he should forget about things, the nice way or by brute medical force.
Next Seagal flies with a Big Black Bird, a SR-71, to Afghanistan where some unique footage is shown. Interesting is also that the bad guys are a mix of British educated Balkan mercenaries which show Israeli terrorist (Black Sunday) mentality. The bad bitch even turns out to be gay. The uninformed naive audience could very well believe that Afghanistan had been hijacked by a international mercenary gang, where the local people have no alternative as to hide in mountain caves.
No surprises though, as Seagal turns out, yet again, as the man who always wins, and delivers the X-77 at Andrews air-force base in mint condition, with two chemical bombs as extra bonus. A shame though that old timer General Barnes and Admiral Pendleton are only allowed to settle their scores with crates of single malt whiskey and are not allowed to discuss some boxes of Cuban cigars, let alone to light one up. The nice spy plane footage and Seagal's point of view on the Afghanistan situation make it a 9 out of 10 for me.
The movie starts off with a U.S. military prison somewhere in LA. If you missed the caption telling that, you would immediately believe it was a modern day Nazi/SS detainee camp, where medical 'doctors' pray on their inmates brains. And indeed John Sands' (Seagal's) brain memory is ordered to be erased by 'high command'. Next a X-77 stealth fighter is tested and hijacked, where old-timer general Barnes has no alternative as for Seagal's envoy mission into Afghan territory to fly the X-77 home.
It's interesting to see how Seagal only shows obedience to these old-timer U.S. Military Generals. A sure hint that recent changes in the military command could very well be seen as a silent coup, where Seagal on a earlier mission winded up in military confinement, where he should forget about things, the nice way or by brute medical force.
Next Seagal flies with a Big Black Bird, a SR-71, to Afghanistan where some unique footage is shown. Interesting is also that the bad guys are a mix of British educated Balkan mercenaries which show Israeli terrorist (Black Sunday) mentality. The bad bitch even turns out to be gay. The uninformed naive audience could very well believe that Afghanistan had been hijacked by a international mercenary gang, where the local people have no alternative as to hide in mountain caves.
No surprises though, as Seagal turns out, yet again, as the man who always wins, and delivers the X-77 at Andrews air-force base in mint condition, with two chemical bombs as extra bonus. A shame though that old timer General Barnes and Admiral Pendleton are only allowed to settle their scores with crates of single malt whiskey and are not allowed to discuss some boxes of Cuban cigars, let alone to light one up. The nice spy plane footage and Seagal's point of view on the Afghanistan situation make it a 9 out of 10 for me.