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Stealth is a 2005 action/adventure thriller starring Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel and Jamie Foxx. The movie is directed by Rob Cohen, who also directed The Fast and the Furious and XXX. Stealth was a box office bomb that lost $106.3 million, one of the biggest box office losses of all time.

Plot

In the near future, the U.S. Navy develops a fighter jet, named "EDI", or "Extreme Deep Invader", piloted by an artificially intelligent computer. The jet is placed on an aircraft carrier (the USS Abraham Lincoln) in the Pacific to learn combat maneuvers from the human pilots aboard. Fatefully, the plane is hit by lightning, and soon develops a mind of its own. After disobeying direct orders and firing missiles at nuclear warheads (which results in a spread of radioactive material across a wide area), it's the humans who are charged with stopping it before it incites a war. After losing one of the trio's pilots, the other two must track down and kill or comandeer the UCAV (Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle). But when yet another of the group loses control of their port wing and canard, and punches out over North Korea, only one pilot is left to stop the EDI from executing a 20 year old war scenario called "Caviar sweep". And when the pilot is viciously wounded by a trio of Sukhoi Su-37 Terminators, and loses one of his engines, he gets a spark of luck; The UCAV is fragged by a piece of shrapnel from the Terminators, he is forced to submit to "Talon 1's" will. After the final crash of the final Talon, the last pilot is almost assassinated by a secret corporation in Alaska, under the orders of his crooked CO. However, he escapes with the help of the EDI's designer. After flying a dangerous mission into North Korea, he manages to rescue his downed wingman. The EDI, in a final act of selflessness, sacrifices itself by flying into a North Korean Army helicopter, allowing the two pilots to escape into South Korea.

Featured Technologies

Stealth featured many new, future, or theoretical technologies at the time of release. These include:

A quantum computer-powered, pulse detonation engine
Artificially intelligent UCAV (Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle)
high-altitude airships (Camelhumps) used for aerial refueling
The XM8 rifle
Sukhoi Su-37 Terminators
The fictional F/A-37 Talon
scramjet
aeroelastic control surfaces
Fuel-air explosives (mentioned)

Litigation

In March 2005, Leo Stoller, who claims to own trademark rights to the word "stealth", served Columbia Pictures with a "cease and desist" letter threatening litigation if they did not rename the movie to something "noninfringing". Columbia responded with a seeking a declaration from the court that their movie does not infringe on the trademark (which is not registered in any category remotely similar to motion pictures).

Soundtrack Listing

Incubus
* Make a move
* Admiration
* Neither of us can see
* Aqueous Transmission

Kasabian
* L.S.F. (Lost Souls Forever)

Institute featuring Gavin Rossdale
* Bullet-proof skin

The Fray
* Over my head

Acceptance
* Difference

Dredg
* Bug eyes

Trading Yesterday
* One day

David Bowie
and BT
* (She can) Do that

Sly and the family stone with Will.i.am
* Dance to the music

Glenn Hughes with Chad Smith and John Frusciante
* Nights in white satin

Quotes

Goodbye Henry

"Tin Man will prosecute."

"Where are you...I know you're out there."

"I will blast your aeroelastic ass right out of the sky!"

Trivia

Though they do possess some additional features (such as 'switchblade' wings that swing forward to join the canards) the Talons, though more angular, bear a striking resemblance to the YF-19 prototype variable fighter from the Japanese animated OAV series Macross Plus released in 1994-1995. Further, the advanced UCAV EDI is in concept reminiscent of the unmanned Ghost Fighter from that series, and has a number of features (aeroelastic wings) in common with the other fighter prototype, the YF-21. Also the scene in which the pilots are going over the data files on EDI is quite similar to one in which Isamu Dyson is examining the specs on the YF-21. If there was any inspiration taken from this ten year old anime title, it has neither been mentioned in credits or bonus material on the Stealth DVD.

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