History Film / Stealth

* ChekhovSGun: EDI's cockpit chair.

* HalfwayPlotSwitch[=/=]ConflictKiller: 90% of the film revolves around [=EDI=] gaining sentience, and the three pilots ending up in conflict with it as it goes on an AIIsACrapShoot rampage. The finale of the movie has Jessica Biel getting shot down in North Korean territory, and the movie ends with [=EDI=] and Gannon teaming up to fight North Korea and save her.

* {{Fanservice}}: Bikini-clad Jessica Biel? Yes, please. Doubles as a ShirtlessScene for Josh Lucas, and it's certainly just as nice for the chicks and non-heterosexual males in the audience.

** And the third act could count as one to ''Film/IronEagle'' (see TrappedByMountainLions).

* ViewersAreMorons:
** When a prime number is brought up, [[CaptainObvious someone has to explain that it's a number only divisible by one or itself]]. Lampshaded since the guy who was getting lectured had just as much patience for it as the audience.
** A SpySatellite is shown with a hammer and sickle flag painted on it to indicate that its supposed to watch over Russia, even though it is explicitly marked "Russian Federation" on the map. Apparently production team felt that the USSR flag was more instantly recognizable to viewers than the Russian tricolor. It is also especially weird because it was an ''American'' satellite, so having another country's flag there wouldn't make sense except to serve as an audience aid.

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* BlackDudeDiesFirst

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: EDI, though it's pretty obvious.]]

The United States Navy has built three new top-of-the-range fighter jets called F/A-37 Talons. From over 400 applicants, 3 pilots are chosen to fly them; smart hotshot Lieutenant Ben Gannon (Josh Lucas), tomboyish Lieutenant Kara Wade (Jessica Biel), and street-wise, philosophical Lieutenant Henry Purcell (Jamie Foxx). When the three are flown out to the aircraft carrier USS ''Abraham Lincoln'' in the Philippine Sea where the jets are, they learn the navy's developed a fourth jet; unmanned artificial intelligence "EDI" ([[FreudWasRight Extreme Deep Invader]], no relation to [[MassEffect2AntagonistsAndNpcs/NormandyCrew that EDI]]).

** CustomUniformOfSexy: Given how tight her uniforms are.

* AerialCanyonChase

* HeyItsThatGuy: It appears that one of Lieutenant Gannon's [[IdenticalGrandson descendants]] will be a hot-shot test pilot a few hundred years later during the events of ''VideoGame/WingCommander III''. Where he'll fight along side [[StarWars Luke Skywalker]].
* HeyItsThatVoice: EDI's voicebytes were recorded by [[PrisonBreak Michael Scofeld.]]

* ViralMarketing: Shots of the life-size Talon props on the deck of the USS ''Abraham Lincoln'' were leaked with claims that they were taken by a crew member and showed a new US fighter prototype. Of course, the shots were all in perfect focus and showed the pilots were Hollywood actors, but some people were still taken in.

* AIIsACrapshoot

'''''Stealth''''' is a 2005 action film directed by Creator/RobCohen (the guy who did ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' and ''Film/XXx'').

The film cost $138 million to make, but was savaged by critics and was a colossal box office bomb making only [[LudicrousPrecision $76,932,872 worldwide]], one of the biggest losses in cinematic history.

'''''Stealth''''' is a 2005 action film directed by Rob Cohen (the guy who did ''[[TheFastAndTheFurious The Fast and the Furious]]'' and ''Film/XXx'').

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* StealthPun: According to the Tech Guy, the guy who made EDI was only 22 when he programmed the AI for the Raptor, a relitively new fighter aircraft. [[spoiler: The Raptor's designation is F-'''22'''. Note that this is also literally a [[IncrediblyLamePun Stealth Pun.]]]]

* ThereAreNoGlobalConsequences: So the pliots shot down 3 Russian pilots after invading their airspace, shot a bunch of North Korean soldiers in the finale... And all's well. No international incidents. No World War 3.

* XMeetsY: From us: ''VideoGame/AceCombat'' meets ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''.

The pilots are to take EDI out on a mission and train it. While they're at it, debate rages amongst commanders about whether it's ethical to use artificial intelligences in war, given that although a computer is not subject to the physical limitations of a human pilot and can calculate strategies more quickly; they likewise possess no sense of morality. At least; theoretically... can you guess where this is leading? And indeed, sure enough, with the mission a success, on the way back, EDI is (we shit you not) ''[[LightningCanDoAnything struck by a lightning bolt, thus zapping his circuits]]'', and he develops a moral code. Initially, everything is fine. But then, on a subsequent mission in Pakistan, [[AIIsACrapshoot EDI decides that the decisions of the humans are faulty, and he starts doing his own thing]]... Now it's up to the three pilots to stop him.

Now available for streaming on YouTube [[http://www.youtube.com/movie?v=q-PPH_X46Us here]].

* StealthPun: According to the Tech Guy, the guy who made EDI was only 22 when he programmed the AI for the Raptor. [[spoiler: the Raptor's designation is F-22. Note that this is also literally a [[IncrediblyLamePun Stealth Pun.]]]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The power that be want EDI to learn from the three mains. It watches and learns from Ben that getting the mission done is more important than following orders from that stupid stunt in Rangoon. If Ben had JUST let EDI take the damn shot... we wouldn't have a movie.

The United States Navy has built three new top-of-the-range fighter jets called F/A-37 Talons. From over 400 applicants, 3 pilots are chosen to fly them; smart hotshot Lieutenant Ben Gannon (Josh Lucas), tomboyish Lieutenant Kara Wade (Jessica Biel), and street-wise, philosophical Lieutenant Henry Purcell (Jamie Foxx). When the three are flown out to the aircraft carrier USS ''Abraham Lincoln'' in the Philippine Sea where the jets are, they learn the navy's developed a fourth jet; unmanned artificial intelligence "EDI" ([[FreudWasRight Extreme Deep Invader]], no relation to [[MassEffect2AntagonistsAndNpcs/NormandyCrew that EDI]]). The pilots are to take EDI out on a mission and train it. While they're at it, debate rages amongst commanders about whether it's ethical to use artificial intelligences in war, given that although a computer is not subject to the physical limitations of a human pilot and can calculate strategies more quickly; they likewise possess no sense of morality. At least; theoretically... can you guess where this is leading? And indeed, sure enough, with the mission a success, on the way back, EDI is (we shit you not) ''[[LightningCanDoAnything struck by a lightning bolt, thus zapping his circuits]]'', and he develops a moral code. Initially, everything is fine. But then, on a subsequent mission in Pakistan, [[AIIsACrapshoot EDI decides that the decisions of the humans are faulty, and he starts doing his own thing]]... Now it's up to the three pilots to stop him.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The power that be want EDI to learn from the three mains. It watches and learns from Ben that getting the mission done is more important then following orders from that stupid stunt in Rangoon. If Ben had JUST let EDI take the damn shot... we wouldn't have a movie.

'''''Stealth''''' is a 2005 action film directed by Rob Cohen (the guy who did ''[[TheFastAndTheFurious The Fast and the Furious]]'' and ''[[XXx xXx]]'').

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