The film is set in war-torn Yugoslavia in Eastern Europe in the late 1990s. A young navigational pilot aboard a military aircraft carrier was bored with the boring routine flights and planned to take early retirement from the Navy. What was meant to be another routine flight over a demilitarized zone on the borders of Yugoslavia suddenly turned into a harrowing ordeal when his plane was shot down and his pilot friend killed by a mercenary sniper attached to the Serbian army. . The “shot down” navigator soon became a victim caught in a suffocating web of war and politics, relentlessly pursued by the mercenary sniper and the Serbian army under the command of a ruthless Serbian general. The general was determined to cover up the genocide perpetrated against the Bosnian population by retrieving digital photos of the mass graves taken from his fighter plane during his failed reconnaissance mission.
I especially liked the scene where two heat-seeking missiles were chasing the jet. As the man was about to fire the missiles, the camera focused on the man’s face as he looked at the sky with determination and confidence. Then, instantly, the camera switched to his hands pressing the button to fire the missiles with “techno” music playing in the background. The next clip was of the missiles fired from the tank. The launch of the missiles began with a loud solid bang to a screeching sound as it gained speed. The scene became more exciting as another missile chased the fighter jet through the forest, clearing snow from the treetops at speeds that exceeded the sound barrier caused by the plane’s loud sonic boom. Unable to “shock” the last missile, the pilot decided to perform a near-suicidal “pass head-on” maneuver to confuse the missile’s guidance system. The pass was almost successful, except that the missile had “clipped” the plane’s right wing. The right wing split in 2 which made the plane uncontrollable. As the “smart” missile made a return path and approached its target, the camera then focused on the missile releasing its lethal payload in stages onto the aircraft. The navigator’s eyes were wide with shock as his face turned to look at the exploding missile amid the loud sounds of activated alarms, a highly charged and emotional background orchestra, and opera music. The scene stopped during takes and that created a more dramatic overall situation. The exploding missile caused a fire that engulfed and cut the plane in half.
The same “pause” technique was used during the ejection scene and throughout the film to capture similarly intense moments. Such a combination of computer graphics and fantastic camera angles and video techniques in the sky made the scene a success in the sense that I felt as excited and intense as if I were one of the pilots.
From then on, the failed rescue attempts to save the surviving navigator, the Navy Admiral of the carrier battle fleet began to feel responsible for the unfortunate events that had befallen the surviving navigator and the killed pilot. The US Navy Admiral was frustrated by the political hurdle placed on him because his Allied Forces counterpart unfairly opposed his actions in the name of upholding the peace treaty that does not actually exist in the United States. Balkan regions.
After receiving word that the surviving navigator had been found dead by Serbian forces, the US Navy Admiral was notified of a radio signal that could only have been triggered by the downed pilot believed dead. Consequently, the US Navy Admiral decided to lead a final rescue mission to get the surviving navigator pilot out from behind enemy lines, regardless of the consequences for his safety and his own career. .