What makes Birds truly riveting entertainment is not the conflict between good and bad guys, but the clash between the film's apparent intent and the loony subversiveness of its performances.
Fire Birds (1990)
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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:1
Rotten:12
Average Rating:3.1/10
Runtime: 86 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: When the United States Army and the Drug Enforcement Agency join forces to break up a South American drug and terrorism operation, a crack army helicopter pilot goes into training to learn how to... When the United States Army and the Drug Enforcement Agency join forces to break up a South American drug and terrorism operation, a crack army helicopter pilot goes into training to learn how to fly the special Apache aircraft needed for the mission. At the same time he tries to resurrect an old romance with a tough female pilot who is also preparing to go into combat. [More]
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Tommy Lee Jones, Sean Young, Mary Ellen Trainor
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Tommy Lee Jones, Sean Young, Mary Ellen Trainor
Director: David Green
Director: David Green
Composer: David Newman
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Oct 14, 2003
Reviews for Fire Birds
Fire Birds resembles a morale booster project leftover from the Reagan era.
With a gung ho script, sometimes rudimentary editing and uninvolving relationships, the whole effect is rather flat.
Fire Birds has one director (David Green), two writers (Nick Thiel and Paul F. Edwards) and many laughs, all of them unintentional.
We get five minutes of halfway-decent action that hardly makes up for the other 90 minutes of this lukewarm diarreah-fest.
The actors try hard, but only Jones manages anything approaching sympathy; Cage seems to be doing a bizarre John Agar imitation and Young is terribly miscast.
Cage is a magnetic presence, for sure, but little things -- like making an actual connection with his costar -- are beyond him.
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