Review of Flight of Fury

If you want to see Steven Seagal in his prime… then don't watch "Flight of Fury". Quite the bottom-of-the-barrel, straight-to-DVD enterprise and around this period it would be no surprise. One uninspired effort after another. Not as bad as "Attack Force", but it's down there. In a training exercise an American pilot steals a high-tech top secret bomber and flies it to somewhere in Afghanistan to sell it to some terrorists known as the Black Sunday group. Wanting their plane back, they get former air force pilot John Sands who just recently escaped prison to find himself back in custody. He's offered his freedom if he completes his mission of retrieving the bomber behind enemy lines. "Flight of Fury" is a boring political action-joint, which gains much of its thrills from its sequences of aircraft combat (namely the exhilarating cat and mouse interplay between the Stealth and an F-16), outside of that it's the usual predictable marital arts or better put lack of it from our star. The stuntman was doing double time, as it looked like some scenes it had them doing the walking, other than just the hand-on hand combat. However Segeal (the expert he is) mans the plane (that's the high-tech stealth bomber which has a cloaking system) and he does look quite comfortable in that sitting position. Too bad for him he doesn't have much time in the cockpit… but he still finds ways to go about things in a casual manner and being rather blunt with his dialogues "That's amazing". You could say the stealth bomber is metaphor to Seagal… cunning, fast and graceful when in action with those encountering them not knowing what hit them. One thing though Seagal is indestructible… I don't about the bomber. "It's the ultimate weapon". What really gave me a laugh were the early sequences when he takes out some thugs in a convenient store, as he slides across the floor shooting a gun. It looked like he was rolling along on possibly a board?! Another hysterical moment would be the randomly thrown in lesbian sequence. Where was Seagel when this was happening? Actually hiding out in the same building, probably watching on. It was supposedly a distraction for him to get away. We know how much of a ladies man he is and how the young ladies melt over him. Maybe it because of his knife, no gun skills. Shooting without looking while holding an automatic machine gun in one hand with exact precision. What can he not do? Then again the editing does make him look good, as the director's tight handling flashes up the screen with many hazardous techniques, stock footage and numbing poses.

"Rewind the security tape. You'll see it was self-deference."