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
US Box Office: $0
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... [More]
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Tommy Lee Jones, Sean Young, Mary Ellen Trainor
Director: David Green
Reviews for Fire Birds
1 - 13 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Fire Birds resembles a morale booster project leftover from the Reagan era.
09/16/08
Top CriticWith a gung ho script, sometimes rudimentary editing and uninvolving relationships, the whole effect is rather flat.
01/26/06
No review available.
09/01/05
No review available.
07/05/05
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 CriticNo review available.
10/05/03
Cage's worst movie to date.
05/24/03
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
No review available.
02/10/03
Top CriticNicolas Cage and Tommy Lee Jones in a helicopter adventure. You've been warned.
07/25/02
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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