With a gung ho script, sometimes rudimentary editing and uninvolving relationships, the whole effect is rather flat.
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01/26/06
Fire Birds (1990)
8
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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... [More]
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Tommy Lee Jones, Sean Young, Mary Ellen Trainor
Director: David Green
Reviews for Fire Birds
1 - 13 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top CriticCage's worst movie to date.
05/24/03
Top CriticWhat 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.
09/16/08
Top CriticFire Birds resembles a morale booster project leftover from the Reagan era.
09/16/08
Top CriticNo review available.
09/01/05
No review available.
07/05/05
Fire Birds has one director (David Green), two writers (Nick Thiel and Paul F. Edwards) and many laughs, all of them unintentional.
05/17/04
Top CriticNo review available.
10/05/03
We get five minutes of halfway-decent action that hardly makes up for the other 90 minutes of this lukewarm diarreah-fest.
03/19/03
No review available.
02/10/03
Nicolas Cage and Tommy Lee Jones in a helicopter adventure. You've been warned.
07/25/02
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.
01/01/00
Cage is a magnetic presence, for sure, but little things -- like making an actual connection with his costar -- are beyond him.
01/01/00
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