![]() ![]() They blow a hole in the side of the plane and escape using parachutes. US Marshall Pete Nessip (Snipes) and his brother Terry (Malcolm-Jamal Warner) are accompanying computer whizz prisoner Earl Leedy (Michael Jeter – Waterworld) aboard a jet airliner when it is hijacked by a gang of ruthless killers, led by former DEA agent Ty Moncrief (Gary Busey – Predator 2, Under Seige), in order to kidnap the prisoner and use him for their own nefarious purposes. Oh, watching it again recently was a blast, mainly because of its simpler-times aesthetic, Gary Busey’s all-teeth performance, and some cool skydiving footage, but you’d hardly describe it as a good film. And Drop Zone, for all its glorious 90’s goodness, sits right in that middle ground of mindless bland sufferance, an empty spectacle with a bombastic Hans Zimmer score and John Badham’s kitschy action sequences. Whereas Stallone and Schwarzenegger had a definite X-factor, be it accent, stature, or some other physicality to trade with, Snipes was a fairly straight-up bland action lead, a subset of the hardass Steven Segal archetype without the swagger. Despite not a single definable trait that his contemporaries had, Snipes starred in a number of hugely successful action films, including Passenger 57, Demolition Man, and the Blade franchise. The 1990’s were a great time to be an action star, and an even better time to be Wesley Snipes. Synopsis: A tough cop teams up with a professional skydiver to capture a renegade computer hacker on the run from the law. Principal Cast : Wesley Snipes, Gary Busey, Yancy Butler, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Kyle Secor, Rex Linn, Grace Zabriskie, Corin Nemec, Claire Stansfield, Mickey Jones, Robert LaSardo, Michael Jeter, Andy Romano, Luca Bercovici.
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