Roy Scheider, Warren Oates, Candy Clark
"Suspense in a void" is how critic Pauline Kael described this action-packed hit from 1983. In other words, this is one of those flashy, superbly crafted high-tech thrillers in which the star is a mac...( read more
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DVD Release Date: May 22, 2001
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Flixster Reviews (283)
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September 28, 2009Blast from the past,this superb action movie from 1983 still stands tall.Yes its a little dated but the theme and story line stand up well even now.Roy Scheider give a wonderful perfromace as frank murphy a police helicopter polet with a dodgy past.What is the best thing about th...( read more)
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October 31, 2008Another 80's flick that finds itself relevent today. Politics, military equipment in police hands and invasion of privacy play just as well now as they did then.
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May 16, 2007Even when I was a teenage boy, I still found this dull. Basically a helicopter gunship goes round shooting things and erm...well, that's about it. There isn't even that much action.
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February 24, 2007Awesome movie, no wonder I was hooked on helicopters as a kid with a movie like this and Airwolf on TV every week.
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September 16, 2008Ha,a terrible example of a chaotic script gone bad.An averagely made film,out of the huge number of productions specifically made for the "legendary" U.S. 80's of action-packed thrillers and methodical collisions.It's not really horrible.The unbelievably disjoint theory of helico...( read more)
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October 31, 2009For it's time...I loved that helicopter, until I realized it was just a mock up of the Apache"
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February 21, 2009An 80s classic. not to be taken seriously. Just a fun action flick.
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February 14, 2009Cops in choppers, started off slowly, was starting to look like a decent enough flick and then, overkill, shame!
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