Slipstream

Sometime and somewhere in a desolate future made bleak by man's abuse of the environment, a fugitive, Byron (Bob Peck), is apprehended by Tasker (Mark Hamill), a gung-ho cop, and his partner, Belitski (Kitty Aldridge). When Matt (Bill Paxton), a roving jack-of-all-trades, learns that there's a price on the wanted man's head, he tricks the police and spirits the prisoner away in his rickety plane. Before Matt makes his getaway, Tasker shoots him with a poison dart tracking device, then Matt flies into the dangerous slipstream (an area blasted by harsh winds that are treated as gods by superstitious locals). While Tasker is busy playing Dirty Harry and eliminating so...