One of the wrost movies I have ever seen

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Attractive and fun movie about time travels with frantic action, thrills , humor and spectacular scenes. A bold idea decently adapted in its execution but with a lousy musical score . It deals with a young businessman: Alex Hyde-White from present-day NYC is suddenly transferred into 1917 WWI .There he takes the identity of a spy and befriends a 1917 WWI flying ace : the husky Neal Dickson who has a genteel streak that conceals the viciousness required in war . The posh executive lnexplicably finds himself aboard a fighter plane over Europe.This is an amusing film with emotion, breathtaking scenes, dogfighting , wooden but likeable interpretation and a lot of twists and turns . The much-loved WWI heroics of Biggles , the pilot from Captain WE Johns series of books are updated to 1986 Manhattan via a time travel gimmick, being prior adapted in a long TV series .Time-travel fantasy in which an ingenious executive is transported to Europe WWI and suffering several adventures , risks and dangers. The time-travelling American young is played by the sympathetic Alex Hyde White as a naive executive and his buddy is Neal Dickson as Biggles who is the best thing in a passable film that hardly plays fair with buffs of the original . Support cast is frankly well such as Fiona Hutchinson, Marcus Gilbert , William Hootkins and special mention for the great Peter Cushing in his last acting , playing an important secret agent whose headquarter is in the Tower Bridge .The big drawback is the horrible soundtrack by Stanislas composed by synthesizer , it ruins the film. It packs a colorful and evocative cinematography .The motion pictures was professionally directed by John Hough including some flaws and gaps. Hough is a fine craftsman who has a long, uneven and eclectic career directing all kinds of genres . As he made terror movies: Hell's gate, Howling 4, American Gothic, Incubus , Legend of Hell house, Twins of evil ; Adventures: Treasure island, Escape to Witch Mountain, Return from Witch Mountain, Black arrow , The watcher in the woods, Dirty Mary crazy Larry ; Romantic drama: Duel of hearts , The lady and the highwayman, The dying truth ; Western : Triumphs of a man called Horse; Suspense: Eye witness and WWII : Brass target.

James Bigglesworth aka Biggles was the hero of a series of 98(!) adventure books written by Captain WE Johns. They followed his adventures as a pilot, starting with the Royal Flying Corps in World War I, and continuing with post-war adventures as a commercial pilot. There was a TV series in the 60s, but the character was never strongly represented on screen until this movie.Let me say at the start that Biggles himself, his much-loved supporting cast (Algy, Bertie and Ginger), the World War I setting and the flying are all perfectly satisfactorily delivered to the screen. Had that been all there was to it, I would have had no hesitation in reporting that this movie was a success.But then we hit the three major negatives. One is the half-*ssed time travel plot. Completely unnecessary and, frankly, not very good. Two, Alec Hyde-White as present-day protagonist Jim Ferguson has more body hair than charisma. And, three, the synthesiser soundtrack music is probably the worst film music ever. No, make that "definitely", not "probably" - synths just do not go with WWI dogfights.I also observe the roaring fire in Peter Cushing's secret headquarters within Tower Bridge, and I wonder where the smoke went since, to the best of my knowledge, there are no chimneys in Tower Bridge.

I first saw this movie back in the day. I liked it then, and now twenty years later I like it just as much. It's the boys own style adventure that gets me, it is so fun to watch, it is funny, fish out of water stuff. The music is catchy as well. I don't think this film got the recognition it deserved at the time.And I believe that if it was to be remade now, you'd be able to have something with a better budget, effects, story etc. Then maybe this film might get the sequels it so sorely wants. I would have to say give this film a try if you can, it's around on budget DVD at the moment online. Definitely feel good stuff.

**Spoiler warning** This movie is the very embodyment of what would happen when an eighties guy is transported back to WW1, commenting on things like nuclear weapons and punk hairdos to the bewilderment of the upper class gentlemens of the war. (I would have like to have seen all of the characters journey to the future, but that would be too much to ask^^).The best part of the movie, undoubtedly, is when Jim is transported into a nunnery wearing nothing but a towel and the nuns mistake him for Jesus -_- I would have to love to have known what was going through the boys' minds when they found him.A lot of people complain about the storyline but I think it's good and relevant. The only thing that irks me is that you never found out who went back and told the Germans to build the sound weapon and so altered time. That would have been a good thing - perhaps even if it was Stalhein himself when he was old.So, all in all, if you want a good time and a not-too-complicated storyline to have on in the background...get this.~~Lostoyannaya