Drop Zone (1994)

Sorry, this movie sucks

Please don't spend money on this.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Drop Zone (1994) ** (out of 4)Gary Busey plays (what else?) a crazy DEA agent who decides to work the other side of the law by stealing various computer files. The difference is that they basically drop out of the sky and onto planes where they get the information, which means cop Pete Nessip (Wesley Snipes) must train in skydiving to go after them.There were some great action pictures that were released in the 1990s but DROP ZONE certainly isn't one of them. I still remember watching this in the theater and the buzz after the movie was over was everyone being really letdown. I mean, you've got a likeable action star in Snipes and a great villain in Busey yet the end result was something rather boring and certainly not exciting.I think the biggest problem was the screenplay and the entire idea of this skydiving team doing all of this stuff. It just seemed very far-fetched that all of this could happen and there just wasn't any drama or suspense in the movie. I think the lack of suspense is due to the filmmakers wanting us to suspend our brain function a bit too much.For the most part Snipes turns in a good performance and Busey is always fun to watch but neither man is given much to work with here. Their characters are clearly trying to draw off of some of their earlier work and there's just no fresh magic in DROP ZONE.

I must say I have absolutely no clue what all the bad reviews are about. What were people expecting from Gary Busey and Wesley Snipes? As a matter of fact I read that Steven Seagal was suppose to be Wesley Snipe character. But he had to do Under Siege 2. This movie just is what the 90's was all about. Action movies which the 80's pretty much did a good job of but the 90's perfected it. Gary Busey plays your typical bad guy. I for one was excited about sky diving after this. Made me want to and I was always afraid of it. This reminds me of what the 90's were like for me as a teenager. A lot of extreme sports which is why they made the Espn made the X games. This movie had a lot of action in it. But I must say it has a 7. It is missing a lot of the one liners in movies. And people are right about one thing, it doesn't flow well. Well Gary Busey is a great actor along with Wesley Snipes, Yancey Butler doesn't measure up. Good actor but her part needed more. I just wasn't sold on her having any kind of record or even a parole officer. Let alone carrying a gun at any time. She looked my like a lost librarian if anything. And the ending was down right awful. The director didn't do a great job of tying things in the film to make you want to see the ending. Like they do in all the other action movies. Overall a lot of people are too harsh on this movie. Its a 7. Its fun to watch and you can actually watch it again because of the all the great action shots. But I'm seeing 4's and 2's in these reviews which is too low. You can sit through this whole movie and not be bored to be honest .If you are asking whether this movie is worth to watch, it is. Its worth it to me to have in the collection. Just not really a go to movie.

US Marshal Pete Nessip and his brother Terry, also a US Marshal are assigned to escort convicted computer hacker Earl Leedy to a top-security prison.But the commercial airliner Pete and Terry are on-board is hijacked by a group of terrorists led by renegade DEA agent Ty Moncrief who kidnaps Leedy and Terry is killed.Believing Leedy is dead, Pete is held responsible for the incident and is suspended. Pete sets out to track down the terrorists, and turns to help from professional skydiver Jesse Crossman (Whose ex-husband Jagger is one of the terrorists working with Ty), where Jesse and her team are taking part in a Independence Day skydiving show in Washington D.C, where airspace security is at minimum.Where Ty plans to use Leedy to hack into the DEA mainframe computer to expose the identities of undercover DEA agents to international drug rings.When Jagger is killed by Ty and Selkirk, one of Jesse's team members is injured, Pete and Jesse team up to stop Ty and his associates, and both Pete and Jesse can get their revenge....There is a strange thing about Badham and his movies. They are strange average creatures that attract big stars, and for some reason, I cannot get enough of them.Here is a prime example of one. The action is limited to a few fights and some really bad blue screen diving (it really is the pits) but Snipes is at his swaggery best and really makes the film a little kookier.Released around the same time as Termianl Velocity, this is the more serious version, as Sheens monster really played it for laughs.Busey is out acted by his hair, and come the final scene, his hair has taken over his body, so his stunt double really has to wear the most awkward wig ever.Despite the bad effects and the average fight scenes, there is something about this movie that makes it watchable, when it shouldn't be...

This is a very disappointing Snipes film that has some good action scenes and some great sky diving stunts, however Snipes plays a pussy. All the characters are OK, and the story was decent, and while Snipes is simply amazing in this, i didn't care for his character, he was a pussy, and got his ass kicked throughout the movie,plus the fight scenes are bland, and we never see Snipes incredible martial arts talent!. Yancy Butler and Snipes had great chemistry together, and the plot was good, however the finale was lame. Gary Busey, is surprisingly bland here as the main villain, and looked bored, and i thought the movie could have been an awesome one!, however the opening was fantastic!, and very memorable and disturbing. The 1st half is really good, but falls completely apart in the 2nd, and as i said i was rather ticked, at Snipes's character,he was kind of a wuss, and this guy is an incredible martial artist!. The ending is satisfactory, however there are no thrills and suspense to be had. This is a very disappointing Snipes film that has some good action scenes and great sky diving stunts however Snipes plays a Pussy it's still worth the watch though, but not anything more then that. The Direction is OK. John Badham does an OK job here, with some good camera work, great angles, and he kept the film at decent pace. not much gore except some gunshot wounds. The Acting is very good. Wesley Snipes is AMAZING as always, however his character i did not like he was a bit of a pussy, and he got his ass kicked lots in the film, however he had great chemistry with Yancy Butler and was very charismatic, i just wished he showed off his incredible martial arts ability!. (Snipes Rules!!!). Gary Busey is not his usual fantastic self, he was quite bland as the villain, and looked bored, watch Lethal Weapn and Under Siege, to see him play a fantastic villain! (Busey rules). Yancy Butler is STUNNINGLY GORGEOUS!, and does fantastic here, she had great chemistry with Snipes, is extremely sexy, fantastic in the acting department, and had a very cool character! (Yancy rules). Rest of the cast do OK. Overall worth the watch. **1/2 out of (very close to a ***).