This film is pretty damn bad. As has already been mentioned the film steals the plots of Executive Decision and borrows a bit of the Rock for good measure.
What I did not understand was why would the kidnappers hijack the Vice Presidents plane ?? Surely with all that potential chemical death on board any plane would have done. In fact why use a plane at all just use a bomb in a warehouse with the chemical. Oh well who knows the minds of master criminals in terrible films ?
The plot is stolen from executive decistion. The aerial shots are borrowed from stock footage. This really only leaves the acting to save it - sadly it doesn't. Stereotypical bad guys and Stereotypical good guys (the leader of the special forces team sent in to rescue the Vice President is a gung ho idiot so that the main film hero can take over - oh my god).
Good look finding more work for all involved in this turkey.
Strategic Command
1997
Action / Drama / Thriller
Strategic Command
1997
Action / Drama / Thriller
Plot summary
Rick Harding is a former Marines officer, now working in the FBI as a chemical weapons designer. While packing up for the night, a group of armed soldiers led by wanted criminal Carlos Gruber, break into the FBI research lab. They steal large amounts of a newly created germ warfare chemical called Bromax-360, loosing two of their men in the process before escaping into the night.
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Good look finding more work for all involved in this turkey.
Hollywood should sue the filmmakers
*SPOILERS*SPOILERS*SPOILERS*SPOILERS A movie that rips off "Executive decision" , but also "Air force one" , "Die hard" , "Passenger 57" , "The Rock" and "Broken arrow" . To add an insult to the injury shots of the SR-71 leaving the airfield hanger and taking off where also used in Michael Dudikoff's "Black thunder ". Portions of the musical score were used in Dudikoff's "Counter Measures ".The shots of the F-16 were actually stock footage from the movie "Iron eagle".
How the makers of this crap got away without being sued for every penny they had beats me.
There is also a lot of stupidity here. Few examples : - A vice president traveling in a standard 747 passenger plane ? The vice president always travels in a US government plane Air Force 2.
- Why would the kidnappers hijack the Vice Presidents plane ? With all that potential chemical death on board any plane would have done.
- Why use a plane at all ? Just use a bomb in a warehouse with the chemical.
- How come everyone in the plane did not die horribly poisoned with the "biological weapon"? - Explosive decompression does not last 10 minutes like shown in the movie - How is it possible that Dudikoff, who did not know how to fly a plane, manages to land a 747 so smoothly and smack in the middle of the runway without any kind of coaching?
This is a terrible movie. Avoid it. I give it 1/10.
Cheap clone of Executive Decision & Airforce One
This is a low budget clone of "Executive Decision" (1996) and "Airforce One" (1997). It was also made in 1997 more than likely after seeing the other two films and they thought it would be a good earner to almost directly rip off the two big budget films. It is not the worst film ever made (That would have to be "House of the Dead"), but it is quite weak. Apparently a crack team using stealth tactics don't think of using silenced guns, and gun fire in a pressurized plane does not cause any damage. It was funny seeing "Hal" from "Malcolm in the Middle". He looked quite young in this. If you have nothing better to do, it is still worth a watch, if only to spot the direct copied scenes and script errors. Mind you, it was nice to see the old SR71 Blackbird being used. I always loved this sleek high speed stealth aircraft that led to the B2 Bomber and F117 Nighthawk - used in "Executive Decision".