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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.

Top Cast

  • Wesley Snipes

    Wesley Snipes

    Pete Nessip

  • Gary Busey

    Gary Busey

    Ty Moncrief

  • Yancy Butler

    Yancy Butler

    Jessie Crossmann

  • Michael Jeter

    Michael Jeter

    Earl Leedy

  • Corin Nemec

    Corin Nemec

    'Selly' Selkirk

  • Kyle Secor

    Kyle Secor

    Swoop

  • Luca Bercovici

    Luca Bercovici

    Don Jagger

  • Malcolm-Jamal Warner

    Malcolm-Jamal Warner

    Terry Nessip

  • Rex Linn

    Rex Linn

    Bobby

Overview

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.

Rating

5.7 / 10
461 Reviews
3 Popular

2 Reviews

  • DanDare
    DanDare
    5 Jun 7, 2017

    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.

  • JPV852
    JPV852
    6 May 24, 2021

    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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