Firefox

Firefox

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Firefox

Clint Eastwood, Clive Merrison, David Huffman, Dimitra Arliss, Freddie Jones

Mitchell Gant, an American pilot, is smuggled into the Soviet Union to steal a new Russian supersonic fighting plane.

Id: 10905009

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  • December 4, 2009
    The 1980's were not great to Clint Eastwood. For every good movie he did during the decade, there was another that was borderline horrible. You know their names: Pink Cadillac. City Heat. White Hunter, Black Heart. Holding a special place in this list of Eastwood flops from the R...( read more)eagan era is Firefox, a film that's dull as hell and is the worst miscasting of Clint Eastwood's career.

    The film is about a mission to steal a new Russian jet called Firefox, which is able to achieve obscene speeds and runs just by the pilot thinking. That means you have to get a pilot to sneak into to Russia that is the same build, great at flying, and can speak Russian. That narrows he list down to Mitchell Gant (Clint Eastwood), a former pilot in Vietnam living with shell shock (if you don't know what that is, please look up the George Carlin bit) that fits the criteria perfectly. It's up to Gant and the Moscow underground to get him to the plane so that he can steal it for the USA.

    The first thing I noticed watching this film is the number of people willing to die so that Eastwood can steal this plane. It's not like it's the atomic bomb or you're going to stop mass genocide- it's a damn plane. We'll have the Japanese build one that's smaller, faster, and better. Don't sacrifice yourself.

    Basically, the entire movie is a cat and mouse game. The KGB are going to get him and....................oh, Eastwood escapes yet again. That's the movie. Over and over again. What should have been a MacGuffin plot in a James Bond film is now a full blown movie with Clint Eastwood as the super spy. But he isn't. It's Clint Eastwood. He isn't sneaky and able to slip through the cracks. Let's imagine Dirty Harry trying to be sneaky. Doesn't work, does it? Eastwood's legend is the guy that roars in, guns blazing with witty remarks against his dumbfounded superiors. Firefox doesn't do that and shows Eastwood in the uncomfortable state of an unstable spy behind the Iron Curtain. It's a failure for the legend.

    Sadly, he also directed this film too and with the special effects sequences at the end and the espionage plot throughout he fails to keep our interest. We're just bored as hell and when the big finish starts we're treating to some of the worst special effects seen in the 1980's. You have to remember that this film came out the same year as E.T. and was sandwiched between two Star Wars films and the other effects heavy films of the early '80's. Firefox's effects are laughable.

    This film is for Eastwood completists only! It's an artifact. It's a legend stretching himself too much into a role that in no way suits him. This film is a complete disaster. A true plane crash. (Hardy-har-har)
  • December 23, 2007
    Though he's too much of a craftsman to produce a complete turkey, Eastwood the director is never so dull as when he's tackling a spy movie. Stupidly, the film cannot decide whether to use the Russian language when Eastwood, supposedly fluent, is talking to enemy soldiers, or whet...( read more)her both parties should just speak English with the understanding that they're actually talking in Russian. Not only is this confusing, it's ridiculous because we get Russian-accented soldiers, who are actively seeking a foreign agent, happily conversing in English with American-accented Eastwood; one gasps with incredulity at how they can't spot him.
  • June 10, 2007
    A dodgy film with even more dodgy SFX....stick to Top Gun for your aerial action!
  • March 2, 2007
    Boring
  • January 14, 2007
    Another great Clint non-western, non-Dirty Harry movie
  • December 18, 2009
    Seriously dull until Clint nabs Firefox and takes to the air.
  • November 17, 2009
    Muy buena. Un clasico de la guerra fria. Aunque le fallaron gacho... porque el MiG-31 no tiene esa forma. Por lo demas, esta buena.
  • October 4, 2009
    I dont realy like flying movies, sorry
  • June 23, 2009
    A guilty pleasure that completely intrigued me as a child. The climax with the jet still holds up and the FX were remarkable for their time. The rest of the film is dated and the first half comes across extremely slow. Still, it's a fascinating effort.
  • April 19, 2009
    what the russian word for sucks?

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