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.
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I like Sean Young. She was hot, hot, hot in No Way Out, but totally wasted in this movie. Tommy Lee Jones is also one of my favorites, but. again he was wasted here. There just wasn't much for him to do in this formulaic movie about a cocky pilot (Nickolas Cage) who had to come down a peg, and then saves the day. Wow! where have we seen that before? If you are going to have Apache helicopter action in support of an attack on the drug cartels, then lets see some more action that just Cage and the bad guy. Ho hum, we know how that is going to end.I did see a couple of regular supporters in this flick that I like, but, all-in-all, it was just filler until something better came on.
The use of helicopters against jet fighters isn't as far-fetched as another reviewer claimed; an experimental exercise at Operation RED FLAG years ago demonstrated that, counter-intuitively, attack choppers actually do very well against jets as they are far more maneuverable. But there are other reasons why we won't generally see Apaches used against MiGs in air combat. "FIREBIRDS" was a good movie if all you're interested in is aerial photography and action. Some of the dialog was puerile beyond belief, and the "ex lovers" ploy between the two leads was clichéd as all get-out. Purely for aerial adventure: A- All other elements: D-
from the description on the back cover of the DVD, you think that you are going to be watching an exciting action movie about the war with the drug cartels, WRONG. This movie is all about the boring and tedious training that the apache chopper pilots have to endure, it is so completely uninteresting that you almost have to fast forward parts just so your brain has something mildly interesting to do. The romance in the story is a joke, the girl is a stinker, a terrible actor and the whole basis of the romance is a joke. I was so terribly dissatisfied with this movie that I had to write this review to warn others. IT IS TERRIBLE
This film is nowhere near as bad as people on here claim.Alright, it's not original, and it's not accurate, but it's a fun way to spend an evening.Not to mention the AWESOME performance from Tommy Lee Jones. He delivers line after line of cocky deadpan humour to perfection in this film.If you are a Tommy Lee Jones fan, this film is a MUST see, as it has him at his very best. If you loved lines like "dammit, we've only got an inch of topsoil left!" in under siege, or the "Alright people, listen up, we have a fugitive on the loose!" speech from The Fugitive, you are going to love some of his stuff in this film.