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- 1990
- PG-13
- Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
- 1 h 25 m
- 1990
- PG-13
- Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
- 1 h 25 m
Summary Elite Apache helicopter pilots are tasked with destroying powerful armed drug cartels operating in South America.
Directed By: David Green
Written By: Step Tyner, John K. Swensson, Dale Dye, Nick Thiel, Paul F. Edwards
- 1990
- PG-13
- Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
- 1 h 25 m
- 1990
- PG-13
- Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
- 1 h 25 m
Fire Birds
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Summary Elite Apache helicopter pilots are tasked with destroying powerful armed drug cartels operating in South America.
Directed By: David Green
Written By: Step Tyner, John K. Swensson, Dale Dye, Nick Thiel, Paul F. Edwards
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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5% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
32% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
63% Negative
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
31
5% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
32% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
63% Negative
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
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.
The best to be said for the current production is that the editing is refreshingly swift, the cinematography is clear-eyed and the running time is mercifully short. (I clocked it at just under an hour and a half.) But do I recommend Fire Birds? That's a negative. [29 May 1990, p.D1]
Originally titled Wings of the Apache for the Apache assault helicopters prominently featured, Fire Birds resembles a morale booster project leftover from The Reagan era.
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]
A sure sign that a movie is doomed from the start is when it opens with a printed quote from President Bush's September 1989 so-called "war" on Colombian drug lords, and the screening audience giggles. Fire Birds tumbles to the very depths of lousy filmmaking on that note. [21 May 1990]
Cage plays his part in exactly the mode of the maimed swain of Moonstruck -- his voice is flat, his jaw slack, his eyes glazed over. He knows it's junk, and he just can't help himself. [26 May 1990, p.E1]
Fire Birds is Top Gun without wings. Without personality. Without sex appeal. Nicholas Cage is no Tom Cruise. Sean Young is no Kelly McGillis.
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Production Company
Touchstone Pictures,
Nova International Films
Release Date May 25, 1990
Duration 1 h 25 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline The best just got better.
Website
https://mt2.org/konu/anka2.4893/
