Plot
A team of skydiving crooks led by DEA-agent-turned-bad Busey specialize in landing on police roofs and breaking in so their evil computer nerd can steal undercover agents' files and sell them to drug lords. Federal Marshal Snipes lost a brother to this crew and learns skydiving with the help of tough-but-lovable instructor Butler so he can track them down. DIE HARD meets PASSENGER 57 meets CLIFFHANGER.
Keywords: action-hero, ambulance, base-jumping, beretta, black-hero, blood, blood-spatter, brawl, brother-brother-relationship, catfight
Taking crime to new heights
La amenaza está en el aire. (The threat is in the air.) [Spain]
Something Dangerous Is In The Air
Jessie Crossman: People probably told you that Jessie Crossman was the only person skilled enough to jump from a 747.::Pete Nessip: Well, the actual phrase used was "dick brain".
Ty Moncrief: Let me tell you about Jagger. He betrayed you. He left you in prison to rot like jailbait.::Ty Moncrief: This [Kara] is his girlfriend. You meant nothing to him.::Ty Moncrief: He's dead. You're on the wrong team.
[after learning the identities of three undercover DEA agents]::Ty Moncrief: These narcs are walking around somewhere thinking they're alive! [laughs]
Swoop: [laughing] Fuckin' awesome, man!
Drop Zone is a 1994 action movie directed by John Badham. It stars Wesley Snipes, Gary Busey and Yancy Butler.
Aboard a commercial airliner, U.S. Marshal Pete Nessip (Wesley Snipes) and his brother Terry (Malcolm Jamal-Warner), a fellow marshal, are escorting prison inmate Earl Leedy (Michael Jeter), who is a computer wizard, to a high-security prison.
When an apparent terrorist hijack attempt blows a hole in the airplane, Terry is sucked out to his death, and the terrorists parachute out of the same hole, taking Leedy with them. A devastated Pete is blamed for overreacting to the incident, and he is forced to turn in his badge.
Pete believes that the assault may have been an elaborate prison break meant to free Leedy. But the FBI refuses to listen saying that the chances of sneaking a parachute through airport security and parachuting at 30,000 feet are impossible. Renegade skydiver and former DEA agent Ty Moncrief (Gary Busey) is the mastermind behind the attack, which culminated in the first-ever parachute jump from a commercial jet at 30,000 feet. Ty plans to use Leedy to hack into the DEA mainframe computer in Washington DC so Ty can auction off the names of undercover agents to drug cartels worldwide.
Anti-aircraft flak lights up the evening sky
Enemy radar spotted our chopper's arrival
Rocket propelled grenade takes out one of four
Cast aside fear and tighten the grip on your M-16
Hueys stationary firing missiles and gattling guns
Cover our asses as we descend into battle
The choppers leave us behind / Hostile enemy lines
We must destroy their installations / Failure is not an option
Into the Drop Zone! Into the Drop Zone!
Our mission perfectly thought and mapped out
Ready thermal imaging and mine detection
Cannon fire ceases as we cut the enemy down
Mortars and grenade launchers utterly precise
They pushed our leaders to the brink of war
We warned you many times, "Don't fuck with the U.S.!"
The choppers leave us behind / Hostile enemy lines
We must destroy their installations / Failure is not an option
Into the Drop Zone! Into the Drop Zone!
The battle smoke begins searing the eyes, oh the pain
Corpses of our enemies lie smoldering about
I bleed from the lead I caught on that last hill
My blood-stained uniform a tribute to victory
The F-16's finish sweeping up the last enemies
We return home to our friends and families
The choppers leave us behind / Hostile enemy lines
We must destroy their installations / Failure is not an option
Into the Drop Zone! Into the Drop Zone!