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.
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09/16/08
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 fly the special Apache aircraft needed for... [More]
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Tommy Lee Jones, Sean Young, Mary Ellen Trainor
Director: David Green
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Reviews for Fire Birds
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Fire Birds resembles a morale booster project leftover from the Reagan era.
09/16/08
Top Critic With a gung ho script, sometimes rudimentary editing and uninvolving relationships, the whole effect is rather flat.
01/26/06
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 Critic 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
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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