Why it may be worth watching
- Drop Zone combines Action and Thriller elements in one feature.
- The principal cast includes Wesley Snipes, Gary Busey, Yancy Butler.
- Viewers currently rate it 5.8/10 from 482 votes.
Movie
Drop Zone
Taking crime to new heights.
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.
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Cast
Wesley SnipesPete Nessip
Gary BuseyTy Moncrief
Yancy ButlerJessie Crossmann
Michael JeterEarl Leedy
Corin Nemec'Selly' Selkirk
Kyle SecorSwoop
Luca BercoviciDon Jagger
Malcolm-Jamal WarnerTerry Nessip
Rex LinnBobby
Grace ZabriskieWinona
Robert LaSardoDeputy Dog
Sam HenningsTorski
Claire StansfieldKara
Viewing guide
Is Drop Zone right for you?
Who may enjoy it
Best suited to viewers looking for Action, Thriller, Crime.
Content notes
A regional age classification is not currently listed. Metadata signals include violence or peril. Ratings vary by country; use this as a quick screening note rather than a complete parental guide.
Themes and topics
floridawashington dc, usamiami, floridaextreme sportstrainingemergency landingu.s. marshaltragedy
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Reviews
DanDareExternal review ·
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 …
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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.
JPV852External review ·
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**
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