![]() ![]() The team regulars is injured, and foul play suspected, rookie Nessip is tapped as a fourth. She agrees to act as Nessip's entree into this closed world, if he will sponsor her team for the competition. Plane crash, Nessip finds his way to Jess Crossman (Yancy Butler), a world-class skydiver and ex-con, whose ex-husband Jagger, unbeknownst to all, is one of Busey's crack team. This is to be accomplished during an Independence Day parachute exhibition and fireworks display, which is the one day every year when security is loosened around the airspace above Washington, D.C., "the most restricted drop zone in the world." Intuiting that skydiving played some part in the He plans to use Leady to hack into the DEA mainframe computer in Washington, auctioning off the names of undercover agents to drug cartels worldwide. (Gary Busey) is revealed as the mastermind behind the coup, which culminated in the first-ever parachute jump from a commercial jet at 30,000 feet. Meanwhile, ex-DEA loose cannon and renegade skydiver Ty Moncrief He soon begins to suspect that the assault may have been an elaborate prison break. Which Leedy and the terrorists, as well as Terry, are sucked out, a devastated Nessip is blamed for overreacting and forced to turn in his badge. When an apparent terrorist hijack attempt blows a hole in the plane, through Marshall Pete Nessip (Snipes) and his brother Terry (a beefed-up Malcolm-Jamal Warner) are escorting criminal computer wizard Earl Leedy (Michael Jeter) to a high-security prison. While star Wesley Snipes hasn't yet mastered the insouciant delivery that 90s action flicks seem to demand, the film's action set-pieces are effective and the macho mystique of the skydiving subcultureĪboard a commercial airliner, U.S. John Badham's DROP ZONE successfully transposes POINT BREAK to the world of sky-diving. ![]()
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