Fire Birds

Name: Fire Birds
Genre: Action, Adventure
Released: May 25, 1990
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 31
Cast: Bryan Kestner, Charles Lanyer, Dale Dye, Illana Diamant, J.A. Preston

1990

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AFMD | Release Date: May 25, 1990 | PG-13

Starring: Bryan Kestner, Charles Lanyer, Dale Dye, Illana Diamant, J.A. Preston, Mary Ellen Trainor, Nicolas Cage, Peter Onorati, Sean Young, Tommy Lee Jones

Summary: Elite Apache helicopter pilots are tasked with destroying powerful armed drug cartels operating in South America.

Director: David Green

Genre(s): Action, Adventure

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 85 min

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Routine military melodrama leads to a satisfactorily explosive climax. But 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. Read full review

Harper Barnes

Twenty or 25 minutes of good air-action sequences, otherwise dull. [17 Jun 1990, p.7F]

Matthew Gilbert

There are the obligatory bonding scenes, including a boxing match and an early morning heart-to-heart, but without tension and warmth. Jones manages to be lovable, but he and Cage never manage a chemistry. [25 May 1990, p.50p]

H. J. Kirchhoff

Once it is said that the helicopters are good and the movie is bad, there isn't much left to say about Fire Birds. [26 May 1990]

Michael Wilmington

Lean, mean, clean and empty-hearted, Fire Birds is a video-game recruiting poster with a bomb ticking inside--a bomb that never goes off. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

A third-rate knockoff of Top Gun and Blue Thunder. Read full review

Hal Lipper

Fire Birds is Top Gun without wings. Without personality. Without sex appeal. Nicholas Cage is no Tom Cruise. Sean Young is no Kelly McGillis. Read full review

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