* BillingDisplacement: Fourth-billed Creator/RosannaArquette hardly appears.
* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $35 million. Gross, $14 million.
* BackedByThePentagon: The producers used a connection to the military to scrounge up an aircraft carrier for the movie.
* CreatorKiller: For Creator/JohnMilius.
* FocusGroupEnding: The original ending featured a court martial scene where Ed O'Neill played a JAG prosecutor. The test audience laughed at the sight of him and yelled "Al Bundy!". The scene had to be reshot with Creator/FredThompson playing the part.
* FollowTheLeader: The novel was only the second fiction publication by the Naval Institute Press, the first being ''Literature/TheHuntForRedOctober''.
* TheOtherMarty: Originally, Creator/EdONeill played the prosecuting attorney in the court martial scene. The moment he appeared at a test screening, people laughed at the sight of [[Series/MarriedWithChildren Al Bundy]] in an army uniform. The scene had to be reshot with Fred Thompson in the role.
* StarDerailingRole: This film ended Brad Johnson's career in Hollywood movies and reduced him to roles in straight-to-video features.
* StillbornFranchise: This movie's failure did not lead to adaptations of the other Jake Grafton novels.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: Stephen Coonts was an A-6 Intruder pilot in Vietnam before he became an author.
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