I wouldn't be at all surprised to hear that the same production team is planning a military horse opera about kicking Iraqi ass to be called "Gulf and Western."

| Dec 13, 2024

A ludicrously jingoistic showcase for the U.S. Army's million-dollar Apache attack helicopter.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 13, 2024

Fire Birds gives the constant impression of having been seen before. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 28, 2022

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.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 28, 2013

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 with Spam, Lucky Strikes and a copy of the Monroe Doctrine.

| Original Score: 0/4 | May 28, 2013

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.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 28, 2013

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.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 28, 2013

It may not be as glossy as Top Gun, but Fire Birds is still an above average B movie.

| May 28, 2013

Sir. No, sir.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 28, 2013

The action here is more like something you'd expect to pop a quarter in a machine for.

| Original Score: D | Sep 7, 2011

In a certain way, with the help of insomnia and perhaps the closure of one eye, Fire Birds actually works in a minor key. Let's just say it's the best 77-minute Apache helicopter actioner starring Nicolas Cage I've ever seen.

| Original Score: C+ | May 24, 2010

What makes Birds truly riveting entertainment is not the conflict between good and bad guys, but the clash between the film's apparent intent and the loony subversiveness of its performances.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 16, 2008

Fire Birds resembles a morale booster project leftover from the Reagan era.

| Sep 16, 2008

With a gung ho script, sometimes rudimentary editing and uninvolving relationships, the whole effect is rather flat.

| Jan 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 1, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 5, 2005

Fire Birds has one director (David Green), two writers (Nick Thiel and Paul F. Edwards) and many laughs, all of them unintentional.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 17, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 5, 2003

Cage's worst movie to date.

| May 24, 2003

We get five minutes of halfway-decent action that hardly makes up for the other 90 minutes of this lukewarm diarreah-fest.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 19, 2003