![]() The director, John Badham (" WarGames"), possibly believes that his aerial sequences are so compelling that the rest of the plot can be hurried through. Logic, that tiresome specter at the feast of fantasy, here raises its skeletal hand and asks a few questions, like (1) Why does the computer whiz need to be in the building to crack the computers? Hasn't he ever heard of a modem? And (2) wouldn't people in central Washington be likely to notice skydivers parachuting into a semi driving down a major street? "Drop Zone" shrugs off those and all other questions as it hurtles to a conclusion. They jump to the top of a federal building, use the computer nerd to hack into secret files, and then escape by parachuting into the bed of a moving semi-trailer truck on the streets below. And he realizes that Busey and his gang have not only survived their jump from the 747, but now plan another audacious scheme. allegedly the only night of the year when skydivers can violate the capitol's protected air space. Soon Jessie points Pete to the legendary 4th of July jump in Washington, D.C. He's aided in his search by Jessie Crossman ( Yancy Butler), who runs her own skydiving school, makes her own rules, and treats Nessip to a dangerous thrill on his first ride, by pushing him out of the plane without a parachute. ("Give me your gun and your badge," his superior says not the first time we've heard that in a movie.) The marshal decides to sniff around for suspects in the world of championship-level skydiving, and soon picks up a promising trail. ![]() Everyone tells him it's impossible to jump out of a 747 at 38,000 feet and live (and I am prepared to believe this), but he's offended, because his brother (Malcolm-Jamal Warner) has been accused of endangering the airplane, and he is even a suspect himself. The stunt is so audaciously planned and executed that it doesn't look like an escape bid, and the missing persons are all presumed dead - by everyone except Nessip (an anagram for Snipes, although why they overlooked Pissen is beyond me). But first they need to spring computer mastermind Earl Leedy ( Michael Jeter) from prison, and that leads to a scene in a 747 at 38,000 feet where the bad guys snatch Leedy from his federal escort and parachute with him through a gaping hole in the side of the plane. marshal, and Gary Busey as Ty Moncrief, the leader of a renegade gang of skydivers who have an audacious scheme to sell the secrets of the DEA to druglords. The movie stars Wesley Snipes as Pete Nessip, a hard-charging U.S.
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