The "skydiving movie" curse carried over, though, and after this film – his fourteenth – he only made three more before leaving film behind for television. John Badham's pre-1994 filmography includes the varied likes of Saturday Night Fever (1977), Dracula (1979), Blue Thunder (1983), WarGames (1983), Short Circuit (1986), Stakeout (1987), Point of No Return (1993), and more. the winner is Drop Zone.īy contrast, Drop Zone's director was already a filmmaker with numerous hits to his name. Of course, the good guys here end the film being awarded medals by the Russian government so. Terminal Velocity is a bit more straightforward in its tale, and after a couple minor surprises it's a more traditional tale of good guys versus bad guys. Bad guys accessing federal NOC lists is a familiar enough setup, but hijacking a plane to kidnap a hacker so you can parachute into the DEA headquarters and steal said NOC list directly off the agency's mainframe computer system just so you can turn around and sell it to the highest bidder? Well that's a plan too crazy to fail. Winner: Drop Zone's story gets a bit messy and convoluted despite its simple beginnings, and I'd be lying if I said it makes much in the way of sense.
Answers don't come cheap, though, so Pete is forced to join the team, practice landing correctly in the drop zone (he did it again!), and kick ass in the regional competition. Fired for blending his grief with attitude and insubordination, Pete goes looking for answers with a super cool skydiving exhibition team. Marshals escorting a prisoner are ambushed mid-air as hijackers blow a whole in the 747 and parachute out with the prisoner in hand, and while Marshal Pete Nessip lost his brother and partner in the attack he hasn't lost his sense of justice.
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