Drop Zone

12/8/19941h 41m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Taking crime to new heights. ~

Overview:

A daring prison break from an airliner at 30,000 feet leaves U.S. Marshal Pete Nessip mourning a brother and gunning for revenge. After being ordered to turn in his badge, he seeks out Jessie Crossman, a noted skydiver, and offers to sponsor her crew for the annual Independence Day parachuting show in Washington, D.C., if she trains him. Meanwhile, the mastermind behind the mid-air jailbreak is planning a daring computer theft on Independence Day.

Director:

John Badham

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$45,000,000.00

Revenue:

$62,000,000.00

Key words:

florida
washington dc, usa
miami, florida
extreme sports
training
emergency landing
u.s. marshal
tragedy
airplane hijacking
skydiving
break in
federal agent
fourth of july
escaped prisoner
criminal gang
dea
prison break
loss of brother
revenge thriller
prisoner transport
airplane passenger
crazy
former agent
prisoner escort
robbery crew
skydiving school
skydiving instructor
skydiving team

Cast

Wesley Snipes

~ as ~

Pete Nessip

Gary Busey

~ as ~

Ty Moncrief

Yancy Butler

~ as ~

Jessie Crossmann

Michael Jeter

~ as ~

Earl Leedy

Corin Nemec

~ as ~

'Selly' Selkirk

Kyle Secor

~ as ~

Swoop

Luca Bercovici

~ as ~

Don Jagger

Malcolm-Jamal Warner

~ as ~

Terry Nessip

Rex Linn

~ as ~

Bobby

Grace Zabriskie

~ as ~

Winona

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Reviews (2)

DanDare
Written 8 year(s) ago
5
Drop Zone is a cheesy action film which wants to emulate Point Break with even more green screen.

Wesley Snipes plays US Marshal Pete Nessip (Wesley Snipes) who with his brother Terry (Malcolm Jamal Warner) are transporting a prisoner on a plane which is then hijacked.

The hijackers led by Ty Moncrief (Gary Busey) capture the prisoner and parachute out of the plane from a very high altitude. Pete's bosses believed that all the hijackers died when his brother shot one of the hijackers that caused an explosion.

Pete remains unconvinced that they died and does his own digging. He meets Jessie Crossman (Yancy Butler) a female parachutist and finds clues by hanging about other parachutists.

The film is has a nice balance of humour and violence with appealing leads but some of the action scenes could had been better, in fact some of it looked cheap.
JPV852
Written 4 year(s) ago
6
Adequate enough crime-thriller with some nice aerial photography mixed in with bad 90s-era green screen. Not at all a strong star vehicle for Snipes and pales to Passenger 57 released two years prior. But still entertaining especially with Gary Busey playing a villain as he tended to do in the 80s and 90s. 3.0/5