Paul Andrews Storm Catcher starts as Major Jack Holloway (Dolph Lundgren) & his co-pilot Captain Lucas (John Pennell) take a top secret Stealth bomber called the Phoenix that can become totally invisible to radar on a test flight (nothing like Broken Arrow (1996) then) which goes well. Then Captain Lucas steals the Phoenix Stealth jet (like I said, nothing like Broken Arrow) & leaves a trail of evidence that points to his co-pilot Major Holloway who ends up taking the wrap, however Holloway manages to escape custody of the US military & the bad guy's. Holloway sets out to clear his name with help from his mate Sparks (Mystro Clark) but discovers that the web of betrayal & treachery goes far deeper into the US military than Holloway could have imagined & it's up to him to stop a plan that could tear the American way of life apart...Directed by Anthony Hickox who also has a small role as CIA Agent Load this is a pretty poor attempt at an action thriller that has very few thrills & little in the way of action & any resemblance to Broken Arrow is purely coincidental, honestly. The fact that the ever awful Jim Wynorski acted as a producer is a bad sign & my fears were realised with a sloppy, limp, lifeless & dull action thriller. At 90 odd minutes in length Storm Catcher goes on for too long, it's boring & predictable & feels padded. The main plot is the often used enemy from within scenario but it's unfurled here without any imagination & everything is easy to see coming, there's just no attempt at any surprises & the whole thing feels routine. The action is poor, a few shoot-outs & a truck that flips over is all we get, the film takes itself too seriously & is a chore to sit through. The character's are all poor, Lundgren isn't a bad action film star when he's beating people up, spouting off one-liners or blowing things up but he gets very little screen time here doing anything other than looking bored, he has a cute daughter & a wife who are threatened, an annoying side-kick & the bad guy is bland & has little to no motivation. The entire film takes place in about three or four locations, it feels small scale, almost as if the script was written around some stock footage & the fact the makers knew they had a limited budget.The one thing that Storm Catcher has going for it as far as I am concerned is that it features the gorgeous Kimberley Davies who I used to have a massive crush on while she was in Neighbours, she was, is & probably still is a total babe. Period. While I would have given Storm Catcher an extra star for having Davies in a tight mini skirt that extra star is revoked for killing her off before the hour mark, I can't believe they killed the single best thing about Storm Catcher off like they did. Bad show guy's. Davies plays Agent Lock so that means we have a pair of CIA Agents named Lock and Load, enough said. The action is dull, there are a few shoot-outs many of which are in slow motion just to prolong the pain. There's a cool flipping truck stunt but nothing else. According to the IMDb parts of Storm Catcher were edited from Top Gun (1986) while another Lundgren action turkey Agent Red (2000) stole footage from this to edit into itself.Filmed in Los Angeles apparently this looks bland & more like something made for telly, to be honest there's nothing memorable about Storm Catcher at all. The acting is average, Lundgren is alright, Clark is annoying although Davies is super hot & almost makes this worth a watch on her own, almost.Storm Catcher is a poor action thriller that has no action or thrills to speak of & wastes Lundgren who can be a decent action film star with the right material & direction. One to avoid, watch the similar Broken Arrow again instead.

callanvass This an entertaining little flick, with a great performance from Lundgren!. it's always entertaining, with a good low budget cast, and an exciting finale. The effects are pretty good, and for a low budget, it was awesome especially the flying scenes!. i liked most of the characters, and it had 2 strong leads, plus i was able to root for all of the good guys since they were likable as a family unit. It started off a little slowly but then picks up soon, and becomes an action packed adventure, and it was great to see Lundgren do his thing!. The Direction is very good. Anthnoy Hicox does a very good job here, with some wicked camera angles, some really neat shots, and he keeps the film at a very good pace for the most part!. There is quite a bit of blood and violence. We get LOTS of very bloody gunshot wounds, knife in the back, with blood spurting,bloody stabbings, and a severed hand. The Acting is excellent!. Dolph Lundgren is AMAZING as always, and gives an awesome performance here, he is on top of things, kicks that ass, has good chemistry with Kylie Bax and was extremely likable! (Lundgren Rules!). Mystro Clark is very good here, as the comic relief and was very likable.Jon Pennell, is decent as one of the main villains. Robert Miano, is good as the main villain, and was fairly menacing. Yvonne Zima was cute, and does fine as the daughter, and was actually likable!. Kylie Bax is beautiful, and does fine as Lundgren's wife. Overall highly recommended! ***1/2 out of 5

bob the moo Major Jack Holloway is the pilot of a revolutionary new fighter jet that is totally invisible to all forms of radar when it goes into stealth mode. When ever someone steals the jet, they frame him for the crime and kidnap his family in order to force him to fly it (he being the only person able to). However Holloway escapes from the group and enlists the help of technical wizard Sparks Johnson to out smart the group.I'm not a big Lundgren fan but I'll always give his movies a go when they come on TV as I tend to hope that they will at least give me some cheap thrills as an average action movie. This film was a major disappointment in many ways. First of all the plot is not exactly clever but it hasn't been developed well enough to make it plausible, it feels like they wrote it with 8 key scenes in mind but were unable to make good links between them – hence we have bad guys simply bursting into Holloway's home etc. It all feels very bitty and this also affects any excitement or tension it may have been able to have – it simply doesn't flow as a film. In fact it is hardly developed at all when the climax occurs – I had to wonder about the extent of the chief villain's plan, his claims were grand on a global scale but we had seen no evidence of the might he would need to pull it off, all I'd seen was a few guys who had been mostly dispatched by Holloway!However a bad plot and poor development could easily describe many average action movie filling up the late night TV schedules, but this one has other flaws. The direction is indicative of the whole film – rushed, untidy and uncaring. The camera swings around wildly, but not like is the fashion with NYPD Blue or H:LOTS but really wildly so that the mildest scenes are supposed to feel exciting and frantic – they don't. The production values feel cheap with few special effects and al aerial stuff clearly stock footage. The most laughable thing (spotted as well by another reviewer) was when the unit came for Holloway's family and burst through his windows you could see the fake silencers on the toy guns bending all over the place! This is one example but it was full of cheap touches that gave me the overall impression that they just wanted to get the film finished and damn the quality.The acting is poor at best. Lundgren is poor as he clearly has no character and has been given no direction and is thus not involved with his character. Therefore he seems relaxed in the plane (despite the seriousness of the situation on the ground) and also doesn't even convince when cheering his daughter on at a football game. Only in the fight scenes (of which there are few) does he seem to be trying and even then it's temporary. Clark is a typical `comedy black sidekick' and just exactly what he has seen done in other films before and just mugs his way through. Bax is annoyingly wooden as Holloway's wife and has a grating cut glass English accent which I can only assume the casting crew thought would `add colour' to the film. Miano is a really poor villain and never gets even to the standard of average thrillers. His character has no teeth and I never really saw his plan as realistic or something that couldn't be easily overcome – his failure to be a threat really knocked whatever small amount of interest I still had out of me.Overall even people who look forward to the next Lundgren film will be disappointed with this. In every area it feels cheap and rushed – it is a product rather than a film. I had to wonder why I was bothering to watch this when it was so clear that everyone involved had put so little effort into this. Poor even by Lundgren's low standards.

liammurphy1 The Movie was pretty good for a typical Dolph Lundgren B - action movie, but the low budget is plain to see (especially as the director plays the CIA Agent in the movie himself) There are gaping plot holes and far too little action although the aerial sequnences were good. The acting is awful especially from Lundgren's wife. The movie was apparently shot in 18 days, so taking that into consideration it's a mindless fairly enjoyable lundgren veichle if not one of his best. a MUST for his fans My Rating 7/10