There are three reasons why filmmakers distort science and technology: 1) to make things look cooler, 2) to make a story “work”, and 3) because they have no clue what they’re talking about, and they’ve chosen to ignore the advice (or pleas) of the film’s consultants. Although Stealth—a hypersonically paced Top Gun update about an unmanned air combat vehicle (UCAV) gone amok—gets correct some of the futuristic air-combat technology it depicts, much of it is dead wrong, and the film commits all three of the aforementioned sins.

Directed by Rob Cohen
Written by W.D. Richter
Cast
Josh Lucas—Lt. Ben Gannon
Jessica Biel—Kara Wade
Jamie Foxx—Henry Purcell
Sam Shepard—Capt. George Cummings
Richard Roxburgh—Keith Orbit
Joe Morton—Capt.