Stealth 2005

Critics score:
13 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Stealth doesn't so much crash and burn as just fly and fade into its CGI-created sunset. Read more

Peter Debruge, Miami Herald: Stealth succeeds in satisfying a dozen different pubescent fantasies while simultaneously violating every aspect of logic and good taste. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Rob Cohen's airborne adventure Stealth commits the cardinal sin for an action movie: It's very, very dull. Read more

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Stealth's strengths are obvious -- high-tech marvels and a good cast -- so are its flaws. At its worst moments, a mad robot seems to have taken over the movie, too. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: No matter how hard Cohen flogs it, whips it, beats it, shakes it, kicks it and prods it with a sharp stick, Stealth, his latest, just doesn't spring to life. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: Cohen undermines his own effort to make a 21st century Top Gun by using so many quick cuts and zooms that we can't even appreciate the action sequences. I almost got motion sickness. Read more

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Move over, Michael Bay. The Island is no longer the loudest, dumbest movie of the summer. Read more

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Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: The movie is absolutely consistent -- it's just as wildly improbable at the end as in the beginning. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Stealth is a pretty fair military-hardware action movie until you start thinking about it -- at which point it turns incredibly sour in your mouth. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: A slick piece of summer entertainment that is counting on elaborate special effects to make its derivative, convoluted story line all but irrelevant. Read more

Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Beyond mind-numbing explosions, Stealth's effects are good, especially the whooshing flight scenes. But as Eddie shows, humanity matters, and computer wizardry won't fill an empty plot. Read more

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Hollywood hokum? Absolutely. Pop-culture propaganda? Perhaps. Yet Stealth goes beyond feeding our popcorn proclivities. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The stars are asked to chew on the driest of technobabble, and to strike poses of flyboy and flygirl moxie that make them look callow rather than heroic. Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: It ain't brain surgery, but Stealth is one of the smartest stupid movies of the summer. Read more

Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: The sort of movie that makes you pine for Michael Bay. Read more

Jan Stuart, Newsday: After 110 minutes of this, atheists will storm monasteries and acrophobics will scale redwood trees, anything to find an oasis of calm. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Harsh and tasteless, it doesn't even qualify as a popcorn movie. Popcorn, at least, has some taste to it, and a certain airiness. Read more

Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: Stealth is flimsy and forgettable, but it does have a few worthy action and special-effects sequences. Read more

Manohla Dargis, New York Times: Has the makings of a kitsch classic. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Stealth flirts with competence when it reprises Behind Enemy Lines, and staggers into hilarious ineptitude when it borrows from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Overlong, disjointed, and rarely compelling, Stealth has the capacity to put viewers into a catatonic state. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Stealth is a offense against taste, intelligence and the noise pollution code -- a dumbed-down Top Gun crossed with the HAL 9000 plot from 2001. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: While Stealth repeatedly hits air pockets of plot nonsense, Cohen provides [fun] in abundance. Read more

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Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Cohen is no stranger to cornball excess but Stealth is his chef-d'oeuvre, a movie so audaciously preposterous and jingoistic it plays like a parody of the genre. Read more

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Stealth manages to be so ridiculously unconvincing you think you're watching a live-action version of last year's sublime action-movie puppet satire Team America. Read more

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Robert Koehler, Variety: Aiming to join the Jerry BruckheimerJerry Bruckheimer/Michael BayMichael Bay school of American movie war games, Stealth is just too dumb to make the grade. Read more

Ed Halter, Village Voice: If we're going to be fighting the war on terror in perpetuity, could we at least get better movies out of it? Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: The dialogue is often drowned out by engine noise. Read more

Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: It's not new. It's not interesting. I wish it would go away. Read more