Movie starts with an attack on some terrorist
They get blown up, but we find this is a training excercise... just with live missiles and bullet - sucks to be them
Terrorist site get blown up
Team goes back to training base
They make some lame jokes
They find out they are getting a 4th wingman but CO won't say who
They go to a public party while talking openly about their top secret project because they are upset about having another member
They get assigned to a carrier for training
On a dark and scary night the robot plane joins them
Its passed off as L33T
Captain of carrier reveals he doesn't like systems being rushed into action
They start off on a training excercise
They get a quick mission to blow up some terrorists in building in Rangoon
The lead pilot gets a chance to be leet by defeating the laws of physics and dropping precision munition at a velocity that it wouldn't survive through roof of building thereby preventing civilian casualties (though moments earlier we see them all around the building... guess it was just time for them to leave) - side plot is that the plane is learning bad habits from the l33t pilot
They go back to base, but on the way home there is an electrical storm (because they are attracted to intelligent robotics... which is why robots will never take over the world, their nemesis - the electrical storm will kill them all)
Plane is not only not struck by lightning, it is hit by lightning that struck another plan
They take the AI of the plane apart
"Tech Support" reveals that the plane has a problem but evil CO wants it to fly anyway for reasons unknown
CO sends the pilots on a vacation for no reason
Pilots arrive in Thailand
Revealed that lead pilot is hot for female pilot
Some more scenes apparently sent in from the Thailand Bureau of Tourism
Their pagers go off
Somehow they are teleported back to the ship fast enough so that no other of the thousands of stealth aircraft, bombers, or conventional bombers are able to respond
They get a briefing that 4 nuclear warheads are going to be attached to some SCUD launchers by some russian warlord
Next we have a candidate for the dumbest scene ever, warlords shown moving 4 warheads on muleback OUT IN THE OPEN - not even a tarp covers them. Guess they don't know much about satellite recon, but apparently know enough to reprogram nuclear warheads
Planes arive to the target but oh teh no, the fallout from the warheads would kill farmers in the area (I guess perhaps the folks on weather were sleeping when they planned this mission)
L33T pilot dude says no - robot says 'oh fuck that, I'm going to blow it up because I'M the l33T one'
Robot plane starts getting shot at
Other pilots assist
Bombs and such destroyed
Scene of amazing hurricane gust winds of nuclear waste descending on the farming towns
L33T pilot dude says 'robot plane you ignored me'
Robot plane says 'well you ignore people too, I'm going to go kill more stuff for no reason - see yah'
CO says 'hey I want my plane back' (though its unclear if he equipped his planes with some form of unmentioned tow cable)
RObot plane flys into mountains to evade pursuit
Jamie Foxx kills self NOOB style by firing a missile which hits mountain and he flys full speed into mountain wall
Romantic interest chick's plane starts crapping out
Oh teh no, she's over North Korea (you'd think they'd revector over FRIENDLY territory since they had been there up to this point)
Romantic interest chick (RIC) plane self-destructs (amazing) but not before RIC can eject almost getting hit by aircraft. FLaming debris falls from above her so she resets parachute to open at 2500 feet.
Gratuitous scenes of flaming parachute and debris... too bad no one in the theater cares if she lives or dies
(some people leave the theater)
Her chute catches fire and falls apart, but she uses jedi powers to only manage to get a few scratches on her body and face
CO says 'hey let the plane run out of fuel, don't let it refuel' at what is apparently some massive greenhouse in the sky that holds fuel and is all automated and robotic
Robot plans says 'fuck this noise' and uses cannon to shoot nozzle off fuel line. Stupid refueling tanker doesn't simply turn off the fuel so robot plane fuels up.
L33T pilot dude shows up and isn't curious why the refueling tanker is trailing fuel and going around in a circle
While he is refueling out of the clouds JAWS STYLE (No I'm not kidding) we see the tail fin of the robot plane who sets the fuel that's apparently lighter than and sitting in the clouds on fire
Gratuitous scene of flaming ring, l33t pilot dude escaping and then what shows up from space as a nuclear explosion (could hardly contain my laughter)
Plane Inventor guy somehow has the ability to get into the memory of the plane to learn that it plans to blow up some target from a hypothetical war plan scenario - but amazingly has no way to stop the plan, or I dunno - just tell it to fly home
L33t pilot guy talks robot plane into following him
Oh t3h no - its the russkies sending up antiquated planes to intercept
They blow up the russians - easily and apparently the russians are cool with that because they never get upset or send any more planes or I dunno - declare war or anything
Robot plane after many many aerobatic maneuvers and VTOL actions is seriously wounded by a large and slowly moving piece of debris setting the inside of it on fire
L33t pilot guy says 'hey I could blow you up - follow me or burn up....' because its all good that robot plane killed a friend and possibly is responsible for the death of RIC
L33t pilot guy drops a bomb into the water and the explosion puts out the fire on robot plane
Meanwhile in the other stupid subplot - CO talks with mysterious washington guy who says 'fuck you dude - you need to kill everyone or we're screwed' although there are countless witness in the program who all heard the radio traffic
CO tells l33t pilot dude to land in some base in alaska
robot plane and l33t pilot dude both get to alaska but l33t pilot dude's plane has to crash land
Meanwhile in the other stupid subplot - RIC drinks some water and is spotted by a native girl who screams... apparently loud enough to bring North Korean special forces to this absolutely remote region in the mountains only moments later (since we see RIC a scant 4-500 yards away when the NK special forces arrive by helicopter)
L33t NK special forces leader starts tracking RIC, and with sniper rifle shoots her one time in the shoulder ... because RIC is slow... slow as hell
She does manage to find a rock surface that conforms to her body, however, and manages to shoot off 2 bursts from her gun - wounding L33T NK special forces leader and he and ALL his soldiers run in the other direction
Meanwhile in the stupid main plot - Evil CO has told evil base staff they need to kill the pilot. Never mind the fact that they could have put two in his skull while he was in his plane. Using special king foo action grip, L33T pilot kills evil doctor (though perhaps he should have known something was up when he saw several torture tables at base Alaskan evil) acquires a weapon
We see that inventor guy is here and evil CO wants him to erase the planes memory (I asume he has men in black technology to erase the memories of the rest of the carrier crew)
L33t pilot kills the people defending inventor guy and gets in robot plane's cockpit which comes equipped with a pilots stick although there is absolutely no need for it AT ALL. His goal is to get to RIC.
L33T pilot dude calls the captain of the carrier and says - 'hey CO did some bad stuff'
Good wise captain goes with marines to arrest evil CO. CO says 'hey can I use the bathroom first', calls evil mysterious washington guy, then kills himself.
Finally at least one stupid subplot has ended
Meanwhile in North Korea, RIC has made it all the fucking way to the north korea/south korea DMZ after being shot and should probably be in shock from blood loss - but her determination allows her to live just long enough to get to the DMZ (which BTW is full of a shitload of mines) and get spotted by the one guard tower which is using flares and a spotlight to see people. Guess the NKs just haven't invested in infra red. Anyways he spots her because he sees waves in a pool of water (which apparently NEVER happens any other time) and at the same time the North Korean special forces that were chasing her show up at the same time and she is trapped.
But have no fear - L33t pilot guy riding in robot plane arrive just in time to fire their last missiles to blow up the guard tower and the soldiers all huddled together in the treeline.
Robot plane lands and there is a reunion.
L33T NK special forces guy was apparently not leading his forces when they got killed because he shows up with a bandaged wound and a sniper rifle. L33T pilot guy kills kim with a rocket launcher which catapults him into a barbed wire fence.
But oh t3h intense no, a HIND helicopter variant shows up. RObot plane sacrifices himself, showing that he was human after all... a slow motion ball of fire descends (and I'm sure most of us in the theater hoped it would set us ablaze for being in this movie for THIS long) and then on the carrier we have the funeral for Jamie Foxxs character as opposed to war with Russia and North Korea.
I go home and take a crap that was far more entertaining than this film.