Review of Firefox (1982) by Del T — 08 May 2010

One of Clint's few misfires, as actor and as director. Subject matter alone is intriguing. Clint plays a hot shot pilot hired to steal top secret super jet. Right there, you can't miss right ? Wrong.

Eastwood's movie starts off so slow moving and boring, with unnecessary side characters, and a subplot of Clint's Vietnam past, by the time he hot wires the Russkie jet, and goes Mach 10 over Siberia, you don't' care anymore, because you're no longer awake. I nodded off many times, Only to be awakened by some cool looking fx shots of the jet going over ocean surface, so fast, the water parts like the Red Sea.

But mostly Star Wars vet John Dykstra's fx of dueling jet battles, look shoddy and phony. The final nail in the coffin is the the running time of almost two hrs and twenty minutes. Clint should do a director's cut, and this time cut out 45 minutes, and hire a CGI house to spruce up the fx. Given his clout in today's mediaworld, this should be no problem.