Flight of the Intruder

                  "El vuelo del intruder"

 Esta película del año 1991 está dirigida por el conocido director Jon Milius (Amanecer Rojo, Apocalipse Now como guionista, o El gran Miércoles) , que contaba entre otros actores como Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe, Brad Johnson, Rosanna Arquette.

 Sinopsis:

Lieutenant Jake "Cool Hand" Grafton (Brad Johnson) and his bombardier/navigator and best friend Lieutenant Morgan "Morg" McPhearson (Christopher Rich) are flying a Grumman A-6 Intruder over the Gulf of Tonkin towards North Vietnam. They hit their target, a suspected truck park which actually turns out to be trees. Morg is fatally shot in the neck by a Vietnamese peasant. Landing on the USS Independence with Morg dead, a disturbed Jake, covered in blood, walks into a debriefing with Commander Frank Camparelli (Danny Glover) and Executive Officer, Commander "Cowboy" Parker (J. Kenneth Campbell). Camparelli tells Jake to put Morgan's death behind him and to write a letter to Sharon, Morg's wife. New pilot Jack Barlow (Jared Chandler), nicknamed "Razor" because of his youthful appearance, is then introduced.

Lieutenant Commander Virgil Cole (Willem Dafoe) arrives on board and reports to Camparelli. Jake, his roommate Sammy Lundeen (Justin Williams), Bob "Boxman" Walkawitz (Tom Sizemore) and "Mad Jack" (Dann Florek) fly into Subic Bay the next day. Jake goes to see Sharon, but she has already departed. He runs into a woman named Callie Troy (Rosanna Arquette), who is packing Sharon's things. After an altercation with civilian merchant sailors in the Tailhook Bar, Jake runs into Callie again. After they spend the night together, she reveals her husband was a pilot himself and was killed on a solo mission over Vietnam.

Jake returns to the carrier, where Camparelli confronts him regarding the incident. Cole and Jake are paired on "Iron Hand" A-6Bs loaded with Standard and Shrike anti-radiation missiles for SAM suppression. On the mission, they encounter and manage to evade a North Vietnamese MiG-17.
Jake suggests to Cole that they bomb Hanoi, which could get them court-martialed. Cole rejects the idea. On the next raid, Boxman hits the suspected target, but is shot down by another SAM and killed. On the TV news, the North Vietnamese in Hanoi gloat over the downing of U.S. aircraft. Cole agrees with Jake's plan to attack Hanoi. They decide to hit "SAM City", a missile depot.

Sent to bomb a power plant in the vicinity of Hanoi, they drop two of their Mark 82 bombs, keeping eight for the missile depot. On their first pass, their armament computer goes out and after barely surviving a SAM detonation, their bombs do not release. They come back around, drop their bombs, and manage to obliterate the missile depot. Camparelli informs them of their court martial at Subic Bay. During the preliminary hearing, Cole and Grafton are chastised for their actions, and informed that their naval careers will essentially be over.

Reparto:

    Danny Glover as Cmdr. Frank "Dooke" Camparelli

    Willem Dafoe as Lt. Cmdr. Virgil "Tiger" Cole

    Brad Johnson as Lt. Jake "Cool Hand" Grafton

    Rosanna Arquette as Callie Troy

    Tom Sizemore as "Boxman"

    J. Kenneth Campbell as Lt. Cmdr. "Cowboy" Parker

    Jared Chandler as Lt. (j.g.) Jack "Razor" Barlow

    Dann Florek as Lt. Cmdr. "Mad Jack"/"Doc"

    Madison Mason as C.A.G.

    Ving Rhames as CPO Frank McRae

    Christopher Rich as Lt. Morgan "Morg" McPherson

    Douglas Roberts as "Guffy"

    Scott N. Stevens as Hardesty (listed as Scott Newton Stevens)

    Justin Williams as Lt. Sammy Lundeen

    John Corbett as "Big Augie"

    Captain David Wilson as "Naval Officer in Control Room and Flight Briefing

Crítica:

• "Milius es un cineasta que jamás se ha distinguido por su sutileza y sí por sus querencias militares. (...) Un dislate."

  Miguel Ángel Palomo: Diario El País
• "Las interpretaciones son correctas, pero 'El vuelo del Intruder' es tan vacía como un pack de cervezas tras las Super Bowl." 

  Vincent Canby: The New York Times

Comentarios:

La película me capto principalmente por la sinopsis, una venganza en un avión... pero la película resulta en algunos tramos vacía, con falta de sentido... finalmente perdía mucho dinero, tras necesitar una cantidad de 35 000 000$  para rodarse, mientras que tan solo recaudó la suma de 15000 000 $ de recaudación.