Lack of good storyline.

A different way of telling a story

Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

STEALTH is an incredibly bad Hollywood blockbuster and the worst I can think of of its type. It's an adventure story about a new fighter jet imbued with artificial intelligence that goes rogue after a lightning strike, leaving the human pilots with no option but to attempt to take it down. It sounds workable on paper but in terms of execution this is appalling stuff indeed, a mindless CGI adventure and nothing else.The story points are ludicrous and unbelievable, the characters cardboard-thin and clichéd. The film is nearly all action, action depicted by CGI which must have looked awful on release and looks awful now. You feel like you're watching someone play an old Playstation 2 game, not a film with real-life jets and hardware. There's a trio of heroes: Josh Lucas, wooden beyond belief; Jamie Foxx, awkward and out of place; Jessica Biel, basically treated as a sex object by the director.Outside of the awful effects, there are some hilarious moments in this. The Americans manage to shoot down a couple of Russian fighter jets over Russian airspace as well as pretty much invading North Korean and blowing up their defences and a helicopter at the same time. Apparently there's no comeback after these hostile incursions; no WW3, just gung-ho flag-waving and sentiment. STEALTH really does have to be seen to be believed because as bad films go this is one of the very worst.

If the reported $135k budget was accurate, this action film squeezed out great production values (some great explosions!), plus Jessica Biel to boot. Alas, they should've hired a better writer. Plot is as unfulfilling as can be expected when the main bad guy is AI gone rogue. For example, what of the minor villains? I never figured out their motives or ultimate goals, but it's too painful to re-watch. Now, there's a couple of possible satisfying conclusions: fixing the AI at the last moment before it destroys something; or battling it in a big climactic battle; or turning it back into an ally against an even more dangerous foe. Unfortunately, none of the above occurred. In the end, the AI wasn't intelligent at all - it should've at least been able to detect if there were friends or foes in the vicinity (a basic capability for even non-AI) then act strategically. Yes, I'm calling a self-aware jet stupid for not using built-in radar. Similarly, I'm calling out the writer for not catching that major goof, which made the final showdown, in a word, unnecessary. These aren't spoilers, as you still can't guess what happened or how the climax would've been affected, aside from a battle that shouldn't have ended that way, maybe shouldn't even have happened. Will the knowledge of a screwed up ending keep anyone from watching? I don't intend to stop anyone; for what's it worth, up to that point I was passing Stealth with a 7/10. This is like the lack of anger/outrage in Neo's message in the final scene made me drop Matrix from an overall all-time great 10 rating to an 8.

While the photography, special effects and acting are all excellent, this film just doesn't give us the resolution we were looking for. The bar scenes, the port visits, and even some of the shots of the main actors at play are there to give us a human identity as opposed to the EDI persona, I guess. But there are unneeded scenes, especially the one of Jessica Biel in a bikini, not that I found Ms. Biel unpleasant to look at, but the scene wasn't needed. The premise of the film has been done before (Frankenstein, Terminator, etc.), and while this film offers some splendid photography and great special effects of the planes and EDI, overall it lacks the authenticity Cohen is capable of. See it once as a rental, and don't forget to return it on time. You need not add this to your collection.

I've heard a lot of bad things about this movie, so I did not watch it until now. I decided to watch it, because there was nothing else on TV. I am now writing this review with my TV off. Movie still have about hour and forty minutes to go. Stealth is the worst movie ever. I would rather have my head kicked in, then watch this movie. I would rather watch whatever, honestly,there is nothing worse than this movie. Nothing!Horror, and actors are not that bad. I mean, there must be a law against this sort of movie. We need some reverse SOPA, to protect us from movies like this. Pain, pain, pain.