Fire Birds
Director: David Green
Starring: Nicholas Cage, Tommy Lee Jones, Sean Young
Studio: Mill Creek Entertainment
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Retail: $14.98
ASIN: B00WV7TN80
Running Time: 91 minutes
Rating: PG-13
Buy Link: Amazon
Review:
Arriving on Blu-ray for the first time is the 1990 action-film Fire Birds. Directed by David Green, the film stars Nicholas Cage, Tommy Lee Jones and Sean Young. There are no extras or special features on the single-disc.
Originally released under Disney's Touchstone Pictures label in 1990, the film received negative reviews from critics, all of which compared the storyline to 1985's Top Gun. It didn't do very well with moviegoers at the time, grossing under $15-million before being pulled from theaters after only three weeks.
The film centers on U.S. Army and the Drug Enforcement Administration putting together a task force to stop the drug cartels in South America. Nicholas Cage plays a hotshot pilot Jake Preston
who enlists into the Apache air-to-air combat training program, which one of the trainees happens be his ex-girlfriend Billie Lee Guthrie (played by Sean Young). Running the training program is flight instructor Brad Little (played by Tommy Lee Jones), whom for some reason sees past Preston's cockiness and pushes him to become a great pilot.
Of course Preston tries to romance Billie Lee before they are sent on a deadly mission to take out the cartel leader, Eric Stoller (played by Bert Rhine).
I recall watching Fire Birds one time during my childhood, but I didn't remember what happens in it besides from the helicopters, so I watched it on Blu-ray yesterday morning. Well, there's a reason why this gets a 4.6 on IMDb as it has some of the worst dialogue ever written! Besides from a few decent action scenes towards the end, the film offers very little entertainment; often very painful to watch. The only interesting character is Brad Little (played by Tommy Lee Jones), but just like with everyone else in the movie, his dialogue is cringeworthy. Overall, the film quality looks pretty good on Blu-ray, but Fire Birds is a godawful movie that should have never been made in the first place. I can't really recommend the movie, not unless you're feeling nogalistic.
*Disclaimer - I received a complimentary copy in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own.
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