FLIGHT OF FURY is another lacklustre effort from Seagal, a low budget, shot-in-Eastern-Europe escapade about a renegade pilot who steals one of the US's new planes and takes it to the Middle East. From then on in, it's up to Seagal to go and save the day. Blah blah blah, the same type of plot we've seen a million times before, except this one is apparently a virtual remake of the '80s Michael Dudikoff vehicle BLACK THUNDER. In any case, it sucks. Seagal is overweight and doubled here, for pretty much everything. He's got a stand-in for much of the fight scenes, his voice is doubled on occasion (my biggest pet peeve) and even scenes of him just walking or running around use another black-haired guy who's about ten years younger and who looks nothing like Seagal.To add insult to injury, Seagal seems bored and tired of the whole thing, going through his dialogue and fight scenes with a relentless monotony. The fights, which invariably involve sharp knives being pushed into people's necks, have some of the worst and most choppy editing I've watched which effectively saps them of the energy and excitement that they're meant to generate. Still, they're a lot better than the in-the-air stuff, which really is pants. Stock footage of stealth bombers and ships is shown routinely and it's all completely boring.The supporting cast are mostly unfamiliar, although as this was made with some British financing there are a few Brits making up the numbers including Steve Toussaint's far-too-nice bad guy. The military types are boring beyond belief and the Middle Eastern terrorists have British accents for the most part. The sole stand-out is the sexy Ciera Payton, who's one of the most gorgeous women I've seen on film, but she's wasted here. The low point of the whole film is a shoehorned-in lesbian scene that comes out of nowhere and disappears again just as fast, a really inexplicable moment in a film full of them. Rubbishy car chases, boring aerial combat, routine shoot-outs, and some fun hand-to-hand combat is all you'll find in this dud.

The only good thing about this movie is the girl-on-girl scene (that was unnecessary anyway). Also , the movie is basically a remake of one of Michael Dudikoff's movies - "Black thunder" , I believe . Yet , Seagal and the writer claim that this is an original piece of work . I guess this was something different for Seagal in his career.Original or not , this movie SUCKS. Big time . Everything here is bad. The unimaginative dialogues , the visually ugly fight scenes , lame flight scenes and crappy acting . Really , this movie screams "Were making this for money".I give it 1/10.

I don't think Flight of Fury is his very worst, I think Out for a Kill and Submerged are worse, but for me it is down there. Seagal gives one of his laziest and phoned-in performances here, but fortunately for him he isn't the only bad thing about Flight of Fury, next to nothing works. The photography and editing looks cheap, as does the stock footage, while the direction is next to non-existent. The action is tedious, the characters indifferent, the dialogue atrocious, the story predictable and full of holes, the pace pedantic and sluggish and absolutely nobody gives a good, let alone credible, performance in the cast. All in all, a mess. 1/10 Bethany Cox

Nobody could like this movie for its merit but, if you have a sense of humor and enjoy schlock movies for their MST3 quality, then this is for you. It ranks up there with "Road House" for its preposterous characters, sets and story line. The bad writing really cracked me up: "I want you to dust those guys off" instead of ". . . dust those guys." F-14s take off from the carrier but, when they get into formation, they're F-16s! Without a hint of anger or skepticism, Segal goes back to work for the general who, only minutes before, was overseeing a covert "mind wipe" on Seagal. Segal runs out of bullets and resorts to a knife to kill the guards. So naturally, the guards all drop their guns and fight with knives too! The hand grenade is a dud but explodes anyway. The little stealth fighter can fly all the way from California to Afganistan without refueling. Then Segal flies it back to California - the long way, i.e., by way of Europe - even though there's a carrier giving him air support 20 minutes away in the Arabian Sea. The CIC in the carrier consists of 3 black PCs, 2 flat screen TVs and pictures of gauges and maps on the walls. What a hoot!