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18 June 1982 (USA)
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His job...Steal it. more
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A pilot is sent into the Soviet Union on a mission to steal a prototype jet fighter that can be partially controlled by a neuralink full summary | full synopsis
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No! He couldn't get avay vit it!
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Clint Eastwood | ... | Mitchell Gant | |
| Freddie Jones | ... | Kenneth Aubrey | |
| David Huffman | ... | Captain Buckholz | |
| Warren Clarke | ... | Pavel Upenskoy | |
| Ronald Lacey | ... | Semelovsky | |
| Kenneth Colley | ... | Colonel Kontarsky | |
| Klaus Löwitsch | ... | General Vladimirov | |
| Nigel Hawthorne | ... | Pyotr Baranovich | |
| Stefan Schnabel | ... | First Secretary | |
| Thomas Hill | ... | General Brown | |
| Clive Merrison | ... | Major Lanyev | |
| Kai Wulff | ... | Lt. Colonel Voskov | |
| Dimitra Arliss | ... | Natalia | |
| Austin Willis | ... | Walters | |
| Michael Currie | ... | Captain Seerbacker |
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136 min
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70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints)
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Canada:PG (Ontario) |
Spain:T |
Australia:PG (DVD rating) |
USA:PG (certificate #26725) |
West Germany:16 |
New Zealand:PG |
South Korea:12 |
Australia:M |
Finland:K-16 |
Norway:16 (1982) |
Singapore:PG |
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Author Craig Thomas' sequel to "Firefox", the novel "Firefox Down", is dedicated to Clint Eastwood.
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Errors in geography: When he exits the Subway you can see on the other Side still written "Suedtirolerplatz" and you see a map of the Vienna subway net.
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Suppose a specially trained Soviet pilot sneaked into this country illegally during the Cold War and, with the help of Communist spy rings, managed to impersonate an American officer, insinuate his way into Edwards AFB or Area 51, was responsible for the deaths of several American enlisted men, stole a top-secret American fighter which topped anything the Soviets could put in the air, and flew it to the USSR.
That's the plot, only vice versa. If you enjoyed the old black-and-white propaganda films about the success of the underground resistance in Nazi-occupied Europe, you'll probably like this one. Instead of Nazis we have the Russians. Instead of the Gestapo we have Soviet officers but the only difference is the uniform. The Soviets are grim, beady-eyed, humorless, and ruthless. They torture prisoners and are annoyed when the prisoner happens to die. They sacrifice their own people without blinking an eye.
Instead of the heroic French or Norwegian or Czech resistance fighters we have Jewish dissidents who help the hero. They sacrifice their lives for the cause. When trapped, they shoot themselves rather than take a chance of being beaten into giving away secret information.
Instead of Errol Flynn we have -- well -- we have Clint Eastwood in one of his lesser efforts. (Flynn would have been an improvement in the role.) Clint is a top ex-pilot suffering from PTS syndrome but projecting fear is not his forte. He projects it by closing his eyes and breathing a little harder than usual. When he's shocked at something, he registers the emotion by raising his brows and opening his eyes a little wider without changing his grim, determined expression.
Nobody else in the movie really counts, but I loved Freddie Jones in the part of the British operative who explains the plan to Clint. Jones is a burly, florid man with a bush of frizzly hair like the older Dylan Thomas (a fellow Welshman) crowning his occiput. He overacts outrageously, not only chewing the furniture, but ravishing it before swallowing it. He makes Charles Laughton look like the Sphynx. His bobbing head and mellifluous irony make up for what Clint forgot to bring to the party.
The arctic scenes are nice, but the special effects are pretty clumsy. They're so bad that whenever you try to get into the plot while the plane is airborn, the cheesiness jolts you back into the realization that you're just watching a movie.
The airplane, by the way, is SO advanced that it reads minds when it carries out orders. You want it to fire a missile? Just think, "Fire a missile." But -- get this -- the equipment can only read minds that THINK IN Russian. This raises a number of interesting questions about the equipment. How about if you have a Muscovite accent? Suppose you think more like a Ukrainean than an ethnic Russian? If you simply visualize the missile being fired (or whatever) in your right cerebral hemisphere, will the thing still go? Will it go if you think in the conditional -- "If I were to think that the missile should go, then it will go"? If a missile is fired and you think, "Go, Missile, Go!", does it fire a second missile? Suppose you happen to be fixing your makeup in the rear-view mirror when you think the missile should fire -- does it blow you up? Would it fly backwards for a dyslexic pilot? If you think, "Hey, I was only kidding!", does the missile abort?
This film certainly does.