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Fire Birds
1990
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Fire Birds
Positive Reviews
2
Negative reviews
12
Average Rating
1.6
/5
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1.5
Still, this isnt the sort of role an operatic wild man like Cage can really sink his fangs into.
EW
1.5
Fire Birds resembles a morale booster project leftover from the Reagan era.
Variety
1.5
With a gung ho script, sometimes rudimentary editing and uninvolving relationships, the whole effect is rather flat.
Time Out
1.5
What were seeing here from this bonkers star isnt anything we havent seen before, say in Vampires Kiss or, to a lesser degree, in Moonstruck, but that ..
1.0
We get five minutes of halfway decent action that hardly makes up for the other 90 minutes of this lukewarm diarreah fest.
E Film Critic
1.3
The dialogue is so hokey youll have a hard time not laughing out loud.
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
4.4
Routine military melodrama leads to a satisfactorily explosive climax.
Movies Tv Guide
1.0
Fire Birds has one director (David Green), two writers (Nick Thiel and Paul F. Edwards) and many laughs, all of them unintentional.
Ny Times
2.8
Its a lovely, rootin tootin cowboy romp with a superbly suspenseful runaway train finale, and an apt closer that permits the excitement to continue on ..
Brian Or Ndorf
1.5
The people who made this movie probably wouldnt be insulted if you told them they were trying a blatant Top Gun knock off.
La Times
1.3
If you think of movies as big screen video games, see Fire Birds.
Seattle Times
0.0
It seems to have been written by some studio hack screenwriter, isolated from the world since 1941 in some forgotten movie studio storage room stocked ..
Articles Philly
1.3
David Green structures the film in the mold of the time honored boys into men military exercise, but dont go looking for The Sands of Iwo Jima.
Articles Philly
1.5
Credits: With Nicolas Cage, Tommy Lee Jones, Sean Young, Bert Rhine.
Articles Sun Sentinel
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