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Movie Reviews of Firefox
Movie Review: sweet fighter jet movie
Summary: 5 Stars
classic film that you will watch over and over again. The russians build the ultimate fighter jet and the USA steels it. The movie rocks like no other.Movie Review: I love the plot and the ending
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a suspense filled spy and adventure film with much intrigue. I think it's one of Clint Eastwood's best. Fast shipping.Movie Review: fire fox was very exciting!
Summary: 5 Stars
it was one of very impressive movies which i've watched.
i'm very touched by clint eastwood's acting.
Movie Review: Weapon of Mass Distraction!
Summary: 4 Stars
Remember the Soviet Union?
You know, the Hammer & the Sickle? May Day parades with lots of pointy black missile-thingies rolling down Red Square? 265-year-old Russian generals with those killer super-size hats? The Kremlin, the Gulag, Exile in Siberia?
Ya know, the USSR, aka The Evil Empire. Remember those guys?
Way back in the seventies and eighties---way back in the *Day*, you know---the Soviet Union was THE BIG THREAT. The Soviets made great villains: when their premiers weren't snarling or shooting henchmen or trying to have Bond killed, they were pounding their shoes on UN lecterns and threatening to 'bury us'. Everywhere we were, they were in our face: Iran, Iraq, the Middle East, Vietnam, the Korean Peninsula. Hell, everywhere we *weren't*, they were in our face: Hungary, Czechoslovakia, even Afghanistan.
On the days when they weren't going to nuke us rubble, rumor was that their vast armies were ever poised to roll into West Germany with its armored divisions, supported by swarms of attack helicopters, armored personnel carriers, and of course the feared, deadly Red Army itself, storming into a helpless Western Europe under the banner of international Marxism!
They seemed implacable, evil, unstoppable.
Until one day.
One day when "Firefox" hit the box office. "Firefox", with directing and acting provided by Clint Eastwood.
"Firefox", a straightforward little flick about a super-secret agent (Clint) called out of retirement to steal the Soviet Union's big, sleek, fast, shiny new toy, the MIG-31 superiority fighter. A flick where, fortunately, there was a lotta scenery to chew, and a lot got chewed, between Eastwood and Klaus Lowitsch (uber-baddie Soviet General Vladimirov who just *knows* something ain't right).
"Firefox", a film so unabashedly hammy and so unreservedly tense that even in the final minutes, when it became apparent we were watching two toy MIGS imposed on stock footage having at it---well, we didn't care.
But see, "Firefox" has a greater claim to fame than just being a high-octane slab of Cold War cheese, with an extra helping of cheese. In 1989, after all, the Soviet Union---our great, scary, tireless foe---collapsed.
Now: some folks still say the Soviet Union was collapsing under its own weight and incompetence, that the writing was on the wall, that its feeble economy couldn't keep up with its frantic military spending. Some say Ronald "The Gipper" Reagan scared the bewhooskers out of those crazy old Cossacks with their giganto-hats, and made 'em spend that much faster, accelerating their demise. Some say it was Gorbachev, and glasnost, and perestroika.
Those folks are entitled to their opinions---but you look at "Firefox"'s release date---1982---and realize that only 7 short years later, deprived of its sleek and wicked MIG-31, the Soviet Union was a shambles, a total ruin.
I think it was Clint Eastwood who did it.
JSG
Movie Review: "Gant, can you fly that plane? Really fly it?"
Summary: 4 Stars
In 1982, while the Cold War was yet raging between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, Clint Eastwood directed and starred in an exciting action film about espionage called "Firefox". Clint Eastwood plays Major Mitchell Gant, a retired pilot from the U.S. Air Force who suffers from delayed psychological stress disorder from when he fought in the Vietnam War. Being the only pilot qualified to fly Soviet Air Force jets who is also fluent in Russian, SIS agent Kenneth Aubrey (Freddie Jones) has U.S. AF pilot Capt. Arthur Buckholz (David Huffman) recruit Gant to be the primary operative in a U.S.-sponsored espionage mission. The goal is to steal a technologically superior, top-secret prototype jet fighter that is code-named Firefox out of the Soviet Union. Gant, of course, is not particularly interested, but returns to Washington with Capt. Buckholz. There he is given specific training that will enable him to enter the Soviet Union unnoticed. Once in the Soviet Union, Gant meets a Russian who works for the SIS, Pavel Upenskoy (Warren Clarke). The Soviet scientists who reluctantly developed the thought-controlled prototype fighter are a Jewish husband and wife team, Dr. Pyotr Baranovich (Nigel Hawthorne) and Natalia (Dimitra Arliss).The film is fraught with tension, drama and excitement as Gant makes his way to infiltrate the Soviet AF base to steal the prototype fighter. Special effects used in the film were superb for the early 1980's, though some may regard them as being dated by today's standards. Other memorable characters in the film include Soviet General Vladimirov (Klaus Löwitsch), the Communist Party First Secretary (Stefan Schnabel) and Soviet AF pilot Lt. Col. Voskov (Kai Wulff).
The film is not perfect, but with a superb Cold War plot, good dialog, engaging characters and good special effects, I rate "Firefox" with 4 out of 5 stars. I am very happy that the film was released on DVD in widescreen format. Not everyone who watches the film will enjoy it, but technophiles, fans of sci-fi & action films and Clint Eastwood fans more than likely will.