Well, this is a busy little film. There is a stricken submarine on the bottom of the sea, an orbiting death ray ("It's not part of the Star Wars project, IT IS the Star Wars project!") and a stolen stealth fighter that is used by one of the villains as a rather excessive assassination weapon. All of which add up to .... not much at all. Low budget film making can be an art in the sense that good imagination can make up for a lack of dollars, besting mega-budget productions, but not in this case. Using other people's footage can lead to wonderful continuity blunders. For example the villains are hiding out in Angola and our heroes get dropped off an aircraft carrier and paddle to the shore. Unfortunately the caption on the borrowed footage says the aircraft carried is off the coast of Lebanon! Our heroes had a heck of a lot of paddling to do.And Ice T may have played that funky music once upon a time but as an actor in this he is laughable. All the menace of a wet lettuce. A paltry effort and not even the great William Sadler could save it. His character blows his brains out near the end. One knew how he felt.

I watched this movie for the 1st time, today, Sep 5, 2006. As an "action movie" addict, I don't know how I missed it before.I knew, before watching, that it was, at best, a B MOVIE. The CAST gave it away!!! Ice-T as a Ex-Navy pilot. Get Real!! Ernie Hudson as the President!! Come on! Ya never know if he's gonna be a good guy(Everthings Jake) or a bad guy.(the Subsitute) William Sadler as a Navy Admiral- He's a BAD GUY IN EVERYTHING!! Andrew Divoff- Ya knew he was a bad guy!! Tommy "tiny" Lister. Ya never know what part he has.John Enos- A SOAP star in a real movie? There are others, but these were enough to tell me what I needed to know. It was going to be a B at best, but, I had to "stick it out" After all, IT"S AN ACTION movie.Tere a a number of "stolen scenes"-taken from other movies(previously sited) It kind of reminded me of some of the "westerns from the 50s/60s". Same scenes of stampedes, posse chases, etc.All in all, it real isn't "that bad", but, bad enough. Contas Mandylor reminded me of both Michael Pare and Michael Dudikoff.

Satellite ran this stinker late last night and, what seemed on the surface an interesting premise was lost quickly in the poor writing, stiff and otherwise horrible acting, mute extras, and overall lack of direction. Here are but a few examples: there are no colonels in the US Navy; men on the disabled sub were having difficulty breathing, but they were not breathing "carbon monoxide" as the med staff suggested unless their exhaust was leaking into the compartment; lifting off from an arms seller's supposedly isolated base of operations, the Nighthawk rolls along a clearly marked runway, then passes a VOR station, a type of navaid that would assist in identifying the location of this base. How about a GPS receiver that we're to believe also transmits its location, despite it being noted in the dialogue as simply for finding one's position?Most of the dough must have been blown on the really cool opening sequences that hooks the viewer, these scenes depicting Navy fighters roaring through and taking out an urban area, 'cause from there on out, it's the movie itself that proved stealthy.

I'm not going to argue with anyone else. This has "fortnight old turkey, should have been chucked in the bin after Christmas", writ large upon it.Ice and Costas have worked a lot together. They're obviously mates, the fight scenes are laughable. The only reasoning I can see behind why they would want to be involved in this, is that the gas bill must have been pressing again.They are both capable of much, much better.C'mon boys, don't do this kind of thing again. Please. Pretty please!