Fire Birds 1990

Michael Wilmington, Los Angeles Times: Lean, mean, clean and empty-hearted, Fire Birds is a video-game recruiting poster with a bomb ticking inside--a bomb that never goes off. Read more

Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel: Sir. No, sir. Read more

Desmond Ryan, Philadelphia Inquirer: David Green structures the film in the mold of the time-honored boys-into- men military exercise, but don't go looking for The Sands of Iwo Jima. Read more

John Hartl, Seattle Times: If you think of movies as big-screen video games, see Fire Birds. If not, you may want to skip this Top Gun with copters and cartels. Read more

Vincent Canby, New York Times: Fire Birds has one director (David Green), two writers (Nick Thiel and Paul F. Edwards) and many laughs, all of them unintentional. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The action here is more like something you'd expect to pop a quarter in a machine for. Read more

Time Out: With a gung ho script, sometimes rudimentary editing and uninvolving relationships, the whole effect is rather flat. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Fire Birds resembles a morale booster project leftover from the Reagan era. Read more

Hal Hinson, Washington Post: Cage is a magnetic presence, for sure, but little things -- like making an actual connection with his costar -- are beyond him. Read more