Fire Birds
The best just got better
The best just got better
Action, Adventure
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1990
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A joint task force operation between the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Army has been formed to dismantle one of the largest drug cartels operating in South America. Multiple attempts to assault the cartel's mountainous compound have been thwarted by a Scorpion-attack helicopter piloted by a cartel leader, Eric Stoller (Bert Rhine). After having several aircraft shot down, most notably a pair of UH–60 Black Hawks and their AH–1 Cobra escorts, the army turns to the new AH–64 Apache attack helicopter, which can match its enemies' maneuverability and firepower.
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Runtime:
85 min
Release date:
25 May 1990
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$22,000,000
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
N/A
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
If you think of movies as big-screen video games, see Fire Birds. If not, you may want to skip this Top Gun with copters and cartels.
– John Hartl,
Seattle Times,
28 May 2013
rotten:
David Green structures the film in the mold of the time-honored boys-into- men military exercise, but don't go looking for The Sands of Iwo Jima.
– Desmond Ryan,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
28 May 2013
rotten:
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.
– Michael Wilmington,
Los Angeles Times,
28 May 2013
rotten:
Sir. No, sir.
– Jay Boyar,
Orlando Sentinel,
28 May 2013
rotten:
The action here is more like something you'd expect to pop a quarter in a machine for.
– Owen Gleiberman,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Sep 2011