kslosangeles
I can see how some might think it becomes slow at times but I was so immersed in the suspense I did not notice it. The script, screen writing, and acting were all top notch. The action at the end is tough to beat. Better than any other spy thriller I have seen before. Highly recommend.
Matthew_Capitano
Clunk Eastwad was never an actor and his drab appearance in this stained toilet paper is further proof of that fact.The Government needs help in foiling some Bad Guys, so of course NO ONE ELSE is capable of carrying out a covert mission which involves flying a Russian jet than an old retired pilot jogging out in the sticks. Enter Eastwad.After a small eternity of eternally mundane events such as Eastwad trying to shake foreign spies by walking down corridors, hanging around in a train station toilet, and then walking and hanging around some more, we finally get to see the plane. Gee, I wonder if Clunk will be able to successfully fly it to the free world? Totally unexciting and dramatically anemic. Miss this flight on purpose.
Rainey Dawn
Espionage, Intrigue, And Action is how I would sum-up this Clint Eastwood, underrated, film classic. The aircraft in the movie, Soviet fighter aircraft (MiG-31, NATO code name "Firefox"), reminds me of the Stealth Bomber in a round about way. The movie's aircraft is invisible to radar - the real life Stealth Bomber is very low to invisible on radar.This "Firefox" aircraft has weapons on it that are controlled by thoughts of the pilot. This part of the film is also partly based on reality because there is brain to computer technology in real life. See: brain–computer interface (BCI), mind-machine interface (MMI), direct neural interface (DNI), synthetic telepathy interface (STI) or a brain–machine interface (BMI).I found the movie to be believable and just simply a good story. It is refreshing to see Clint Eastwood in a very different role, it's nice to see him play something different instead of the lead in a Western or a cop role.9/10
david-sarkies
The American's have a problem – the Russians are beating them once again, and that is embarrassing, because totalitarianism isn't supposed to work, where as democracy does. They have a plane that is much better than any of the planes they have, which means that if they decide to duke it out, the might lose – we can't have that can we. So, we do what everybody spoilt brat does when the kid he doesn't like gets something that they want – they get Clint Eastwood to go and steal it.But Clint Eastwood is, well, Clint Eastwood, and he also suffers from Post Traumatic Stress disorder because he was locked up in a bamboo cage in Vietnam. That doesn't matter because he can speak Russian, and he can fly a plane, so he is the perfect person to go an steal this particular plane.So, the first half of the movie Clint wonders around Russia trying not the be Clint (because if he does everybody will know that he is American) but he fails in that attempt because he has to beat up a KGB agent (old habits die hard, don't they Clint), but still, the KGB can't be all that bright because they decide to let Clint go (because, well, he's Clint) and then he manages to disguise himself as a Russian Major, sneak into a heavily guarded airbase, punch out another person (but this time he doesn't kill him because he has an attack of compassion), and steals the plane.So we have the second half of the movie – Clint flying a plane. And he flies the plane, and then flies the plane some more, and then lands the plane in a place where he shouldn't have been able to land the plane, but he can because he is Clint, and then he takes off again, and flies the plane some more, and then the movie ends. Oh, there is a dog fight thrown in for good measure, but that is nothing, because Clint is flying a plane.
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