**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…
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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.
Top Cast
Nicolas Cage
Jake Preston
Tommy Lee Jones
Brad Little
Sean Young
Billie Lee Guthries
Bryan Kestner
Breaker
Dale Dye
A.K. McNeil
Illana Diamant
Sharon Geller
Peter Onorati
Rice
Marshall R. Teague
Doug Daniels
Gregory Vahanian
Tom Davis
Cylk Cozart
Dewar Proctor
Charles Kahlenberg
Oscar De Marco
Robert Lujan
Steward Rives
Charles Lanyer
Darren Phillips
Mary Ellen Trainor
Janet Little
J.A. Preston
General Olcott
Mickey Yablans
Butch Tippet
Reviews
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…
FAQ about Fire Birds
What is Fire Birds about?
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…
When was Fire Birds released?
Fire Birds was released in 1990.
What genres does Fire Birds belong to?
Fire Birds is categorised as Action, Adventure.
Who stars in Fire Birds?
The cast of Fire Birds includes Nicolas Cage, Tommy Lee Jones, Sean Young, Bryan Kestner, Dale Dye.