Interceptor - Netflix Movie

INTERCEPTOR | Official Trailer | Netflix
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Total comic book action movie. The heroine is a tough girl who takes on a succession of bad guys in the close confines of the command center of the SBX, a giant floating radar station. It's kind of like a James Bond movie, lots of high tech gadgets, a plethora of bad guys, really nasty villains and a smart, savvy hero who wins against impossible odds. The fight scenes are very well done. They are almost believable, not like some of these science fiction fantasies where a hundred pound cutey takes on a dozen bruisers and knocks them down with one blow. Our girl takes a beating, but she also responds in kind and manages to defeat them using skill and whatever material is within her reach. She does have a problem with running out of bullets at the wrong time. A little ammunition management would have helped, but I imagine that might be a little difficult to enforce in the middle of a fire fight.

The entire show (well, 90% of it) takes place in the command center. A rather small room filled with computers and radar displays and manned by 3 or 4 people. Entrance to the room is through two super-fancy security doors. Bad guys don't care, they have a cutting torch. Zero hour is approaching and they haven't finished cutting through the second door, so it looks like their fancy scheme will come to naught, but then a ninja jumps up from a hatch in the floor. Criminently, that looks like a weak point in the control room's security. Then we look down through the hatch and it's a straight drop to the water a hundred feet down. Evidently this ninja is Spider Man because he was able to crawl along the underside of the platform.

SBX

Later on, we open a hatch in the ceiling that gives us access to the upper deck. For all the planning the bad guys have supposedly done, you'd think they would have thought of this. Stupid bad guys.

The highlight of show is when our girl climbs up a ladder attached to the side of one of the supporting pylons. That's no small feat, it is at least a hundred feet straight up, and she does it with a broken arm that is just hanging by her side. Then she has to follow the ninja's path across the underside of the deck. Seems that someone thoughtfully provided a set of monkey bars and she manages to traverse them, once again one handed. In case your hands aren't sweaty enough she gets to a place were a couple of bars are missing, so she has to really swing to throw herself across the gap. Criminently, who is this chick? And was that a real stunt? Her name is Elsa Pataky and Netflix Tudum has the story.

The SBX is a real thing, though I don't think there are any missiles on board. The movie version has a bunch of anti-ICBM missiles, kind of like you might have on a G.I. Joe toy. Our real anti-ICBM missiles are carried on ships. We might have some on land bases but I'm not too sure about that.

The whole anti-missile missile thing is kind of iffy at best. They whiz kids in the military industrial complex have been working on the problem for years and they have some missiles that they have demonstrated successfully, but we don't know how reliable they are. A demonstration is one thing, but how well would they work against a real attack? Here's hoping we never find out. Then there's the problem of quantity. Russia has a zillion ICBM's. How many anti-missile missiles do we have? Assuming the missiles worked reliably, do we have enough to stop an attack? And how many do you need if the missiles are not reliable? And how do you demonstrate that your missiles are reliable enough to justify spending a zillion dollars to build up your inventory? I don't think Biden cares, he seems bent on armageddon.