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...three white-clad pilots raised their glasses after a hard day’s work in Rob Cohen ’71’s latest flick, “Stealth,” I regretted not being able to follow their lead. Surely, some pre-gaming would have dulled my growing desire to end my misery by inflicting bodily harm upon myself...
...surprise that the camerawork, which espouses the philosophy that the more the camera shakes, the more action must be happening, is the work of Academy Award-winning cinematographer Dean Semler (he won for 1991’s “Dancing with Wolves”). Semler and Cohen “pioneered” the camera shake in 2002?...
...George Cumming (Sam Shepard) announces, “Edi flies all by himself,” Gannon quickly corrects, steely-eyed, “You mean itself.” Sadly, Edi isn’t all that scary, even when he (it?) starts threatening to bomb things, because Cohen only lets his computer villain speak in “traditional computer...
...Cohen, who put his Harvard credentials to good work with such masterpieces (gasp) as “The Fast and the Furious” and the aforementioned “xXx,” drops to new levels here. Despite giving Edi a full database of angry rock music to play while he zooms through the sky, we never really feel the action. The ring of fire explosion shown in the trailer doesn’t leave your heart pumping, and even a total building demolition seems lackluster. Though Foxx is trying hard to emulate Will Smith (with the hippest...
...surprises remain at the end, including a new enemy or two, which are mildly unexpected, though mired in pitiful dialogue and unintentionally comical scenes. Certainly Cohen was not aiming for greatness, but he couldn’t even break the summer action sound barrier. A few careers are in danger of crash landing along with “Stealth”; we’ll have to wait and see if someone makes it out alive...