Drop Zone started out fresh and exciting. I could get behind a prison break at 38,000 feet no matter how improbable. It was something new and definitely extreme. Then it became a 90 minute skydiving video. Oh yeah, we got to see tandem skydiving, skydiving ground work, skydiving teams, skydiving hangouts, and of course skydiving jargon. I almost forgot that it was an action crime movie and that U.S. Marshall, Pete Nessip (Wesley Snipes) was after some bad guys.
If the movie wasn't already at the outer regions of believability there was a scene (one of many far-fetched scenes) where skydiving instructor, Jessie Crossman (Yancy Butler), decides to show the newby how hard skydiving is by dumping him out of the plane. Of course she jumps after him, attaches herself to him and brings them both down safely.
Why did that scene stick out to me and had me so uptight? Because I skydived before and NO instructor would do something so reckless. Even if the instructor caught up to the falling student, the student would be in perpetual propeller mode making him impossible to haul in. She would have been committing murder if she had really done that. To the movie's credit they did have Pete giving Jessie a left cross to the face after that stunt.
Still, the movie didn't have enough going for it. Snipes and Busey did their best but there wasn't enough to work with. I'm sure skydivers worldwide appreciated this movie while non-skydivers suffered.
If the movie wasn't already at the outer regions of believability there was a scene (one of many far-fetched scenes) where skydiving instructor, Jessie Crossman (Yancy Butler), decides to show the newby how hard skydiving is by dumping him out of the plane. Of course she jumps after him, attaches herself to him and brings them both down safely.
Why did that scene stick out to me and had me so uptight? Because I skydived before and NO instructor would do something so reckless. Even if the instructor caught up to the falling student, the student would be in perpetual propeller mode making him impossible to haul in. She would have been committing murder if she had really done that. To the movie's credit they did have Pete giving Jessie a left cross to the face after that stunt.
Still, the movie didn't have enough going for it. Snipes and Busey did their best but there wasn't enough to work with. I'm sure skydivers worldwide appreciated this movie while non-skydivers suffered.