Drop Zone 4K 1994 Ultra HD 2160p

Police officer Wesley Snipes and his brother are transporting a criminal computer expert to testify in court. On the airplane in which they were carrying this computer genius, they were attacked by terrorists. They blew up a piece of paneling and jumped out with parachutes, taking with them this valuable guy, so much needed for their “work”. Snipes's brother was killed, and he was suspended from his job because the rules of investigation demanded it. But Snipes, of course, could not leave it like that. He starts searching for the killers, for which he had to learn to parachute. The film (reminiscent of “On the Crest of the Wave”) has a lot of beautiful filming in the air, dizzying stunts; there are fights, shooting and not bad humor. Gary Busey is as good as ever as the main villain, a former drug agent now selling his former colleagues to the drug mafia.

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U.S. Justice Department officials, or, simply put, Marshals Pete and Terry Nessip (Wesley Snipes and Malcolm-Jamal Warner) escort the oddball and mannerly hacker Earl Leedy (Michael Jeter) to testify in court on a passenger airliner. Right in the air, the plane is hijacked by an armed group of individuals who wanted Lidy specifically. Quite naturally, the marshals couldn't sit idly by, resulting in a firefight, the cabin depressurizes, Terry Nessip dies, and the attackers parachute in from a great height, taking the escort with them. Pete is removed from the investigation, but, driven by a vendetta, he begins to look for very cool and equally crazy skydivers who could make such a dangerous jump. So he gradually infiltrates their environment, where he encounters rogue ex-narcotics agent Ty Moncrief (Gary Busey) and his crew.

It's often the case that it seems like the movie is simplistic, almost primitive, the plot is secondary, and there isn't even box office success as such. However, despite all this, the movie is not just liked, but also repeatedly subsequently revisited, and not without pleasure. I personally had similar things happen to a lot of movies. “Drop Zone” by the experienced John Badham - just from this opera. See for yourself.

First of all, the plot. It, in general, is very much like “On the Crest of the Wave”, at least, with its basic plot - the introduction into a certain subculture of extremists in order to catch criminals. Second, the script. Maybe it abounds with unexpected findings and interesting dialog? It seems not, there is nothing special in this regard. Thirdly, the performance of the actors. Perhaps there is a performance even partially close to outstanding? And here it misses. There is not a single star of the first magnitude in the movie, although at the time Wesley Snipes' status was approaching that, the actors employed played their roles fairly evenly, without any significant deviations into one or another category of evaluation. So what's the gimmick, then?

And the gimmick, friends, is that Drop Zone is, in my opinion, one of the prettiest action movies made in Hollywood in the nineties. Largely due to its excellent visuals, which must have taken up a significant portion of the not-insignificant budget. The movie is literally saturated with parachute stunts of varying degrees of complexity, quantitatively surpassing the standard action, and it looks just fine, especially since much of what we saw was filmed live. For this, Badham and his assistant D.J. Caruso, who was responsible for staging the fight scenes, are to be thanked. And almost twenty years later, the picture does not look anachronistic.

Well, and did not fall below its rather high bar trio of actors Snipes-Busey-Jeter. The latter had almost nothing to play here, as the role is primitive enough for such an interesting (and, unfortunately, already deceased now) actor, but this little cowardly and mustachioed man is instantly memorable. Again, the role of Moncrief for Busey is also quite typical, but this actor is so charismatic that he looks great even in small roles. Here, his performance is a pleasure to watch. And Wesley Snipes - as always not bad, in fact, frankly bad roles I have not seen him before.

“Drop Zone” is just a vivid example of the definition of ‘Bad movie we love’. Well there is nothing outstanding here, practically there is nothing original, but it has been liked since childhood and continues to be liked now. So if you want to pass the evening with some adventure action movie, I advise you not to think long about John Badham's picture.

Info Video

Codec: HEVC / H.265 (80.4 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 2.37:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

Info Audio

#English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
#English: Dolby Digital 2.0 (Commentary with John Badham, Roy H. Wagner, Justin LaLiberty)
#English: Dolby Digital 2.0 (Commentary with film journalist Max Evry)

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