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Fire Birds

Name: Fire Birds
Genre: Action, Adventure
Released: 1990-05-25
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 5

★ 5,0 /10 (203 Votes)

1990 EN 85 min

Overview

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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Release date

25/05/1990

Votes

203

Popularity

3.5

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Genres

Action Adventure

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

85 min

Budget

$22,000,000

Nicolas Cage

Jake Preston

Tommy Lee Jones

Brad Little

Sean Young

Billie Lee Guthries

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Bryan Kestner

Breaker

Dale Dye

A.K. McNeil

Illana Diamant

Sharon Geller

Peter Onorati

Rice

Marshall R. Teague

Doug Daniels

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Gregory Vahanian

Tom Davis

Cylk Cozart

Dewar Proctor

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Charles Kahlenberg

Oscar De Marco

Robert Lujan

Steward Rives

Charles Lanyer

Darren Phillips

Mary Ellen Trainor

Janet Little

J.A. Preston

General Olcott

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Mickey Yablans

Butch Tippet

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Bert Rhine

Eric Stoller

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**A miserably bungled Top Gun impersonation with helicopters… why?** Lame Top Gun with helicopters. Almost everything is a straight rip-off. Nic Cage is a much more exaggerated Maverick. Tommy Lee Jones fills the Viper role. Flight school. Overly cocky pilots. Contentious playful romance. Fire Birds so closely replicated Top Gun that it forced a comparison that Fire Birds lost miserably. The cheese factor was cringe. The soundtrack was nowhere near the quality of Harold Faltermeyer’s anthem. David Green couldn’t measure up to Tony Scott’s directing mastery. Even with some of the 90s’ bigger…

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This is a helicopter-based version of Top Gun and it has a lot of issues. The unlikability of the characters is enough to make me want to turn this off and the horrifyingly bad attitude that our main protagonist has towards what is framed as his love interest but is portrayed more as a very toxic relationship is gut churning. You then add some really bad pseudo-military jargon and some half decent footage of Apache attack helicopters and you have a slightly below average movie. This isn't fun. It isn't good and it isn't enjoyable. I would not recommend you spend your time watching this.

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