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

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

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

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

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

Cage is a magnetic presence, for sure, but little things -- like making an actual connection with his costar -- are beyond him.

| Jan 1, 2000