Firefox (1982)

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• Anthony L

  
  Firefox is an odd film. In 1982 you can't help but think it was a few years too late as all the really good Cold War films were made in the 70s and where tons better. Fredrick Forsyth it ain't but there is something quite clumsy about it that I quite like, not so bad… More
  Firefox is an odd film. In 1982 you can't help but think it was a few years too late as all the really good Cold War films were made in the 70s and where tons better. Fredrick Forsyth it ain't but there is something quite clumsy about it that I quite like, not so bad it's good but something uniquely silly that I find charming. A very generous 3 stars.

• Conner R

  
  The first half of this movie is utterly flawless and therefore I can't say it's bad. While the last forty minutes are absolutely ridiculous, the rest is good enough to even things out. Clint Eastwood does a great job at playing a man of disguises and looks as threatening as… More
  The first half of this movie is utterly flawless and therefore I can't say it's bad. While the last forty minutes are absolutely ridiculous, the rest is good enough to even things out. Clint Eastwood does a great job at playing a man of disguises and looks as threatening as possible, even up against classic Indiana Jones and Star Wars henchmen like Toht and Admiral Piett. There's a really great espionage story at the heart of everything, which should be remembered above the cheesy airplane scenes and psychic Russian commands.

• Chris G

  
  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… More
  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 Reagan 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)

• Jason O

  
  Tommy Riley (James Marshall) goes to a different school and is immediately bullied around and threatened by several of the school's students. After getting in a street fight, Pappy Jack (Robert Loggia) notices Tommy's strong and fierce punch and invites him to be a boxer.… More
  Tommy Riley (James Marshall) goes to a different school and is immediately bullied around and threatened by several of the school's students. After getting in a street fight, Pappy Jack (Robert Loggia) notices Tommy's strong and fierce punch and invites him to be a boxer. Tommy was formerly a boxing champion before coming to this school and his record is undefeated. This town is full of gangs and violence, and one day Tommy helps a black boxer named Lincoln (Cuba Gooding, Jr.), and they then have a good friendship. Tommy is now making good money being a boxer and he has some friends, but something just doesn't seem right. "Gladiator" is an exciting boxing and drama movie. What makes it so great is not only the exciting fights, but the great acting by everybody in the movie, mainly James Marshall, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Tommy's promoter, Jimmy Horn (Brian Dennehy). If you like exciting boxing movies that have a plot or just great movies in general, I recommend getting "Gladiator." NOTE: That was my Amazon review from the year 2000. It was among the first Eastwood movies I ever saw, now I know he has wayyyy better ones.

• Stephen M

  
  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… More
  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 whether 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.

• Dean !

  
  A dodgy film with even more dodgy SFX....stick to Top Gun for your aerial action!

• Stuart B

  
  Boring

• Jason S

  
  You dont' get to see him kick butt in the super plane until the very end.

• Tom E

  
  Another great Clint non-western, non-Dirty Harry movie

• xGary X

  
  Extremely laboured and dull cold war "thriller". The dogfight sequence isn't bad, but it's sooo long in coming.

• Antony S

  
  Lacklustre effort from Clint Eastwood. Clint serves as lead and director on this, in which he plays a burnt-out US pilot more or less forced back into 'one last mission' to steal a revolutionary Russian aircraft. The majority of the film will be unsatisfying to action fans,… More
  Lacklustre effort from Clint Eastwood. Clint serves as lead and director on this, in which he plays a burnt-out US pilot more or less forced back into 'one last mission' to steal a revolutionary Russian aircraft. The majority of the film will be unsatisfying to action fans, as it concerns itself greatly with Russian politics and Eastwood's misunderstanding of his position in the grand scheme of things (he is forced to go undercover, posing as the intended pilot for the top-secret MIG). Though the picture promises a great deal of tension regarding Eastwood's precarious placement as our interloper, it tends to be scuppered by highly typical plot mechanics such as his convieniently-timed post-war stress disorder, and the Firefox having to stop for fuel on his journey home, granting juuuust enough time for a second 'Fox to catch up with him and proffer a high-speed dogfight (with some highly dated effects). A patchy result, but at least it's better than that 'other' aircraft flick that inexplicably garners mass exultation...

• Dean M

  
  Eastwood is part alike James Bond role in this thriller movie.

• Christopher O

  
  A real action filled military thriller starring Clint Eastwood and directed well by him as well. Clint plays a pilor Mitchell Gant who is smuggled into Russia to steal a super spy plane. Great cinematography and action sequences. A good action film.

• Lee K

  
  another of my fave clint films. your papers are not in order! god talk about on the edge of your seat!

• Barry L

  
  Eastwood is a great actor, moody and intense like this film

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