not as good as all the hype

Good start, but then it gets ruined

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Don't expect outdated special effects - they are great! Just like with all the spy movies that I've seen, I have no idea what this one is about either, but I stay for the great action scenes, the hot actor and maybe some surprises along the way. And lo and behold, this movie doesn't let me down. The culmination is EVERYTHING! The flying scenes are better than Top Gun, released several years later. It's highly polished visual effects art.

A brief review of Firefox. It manages to mix in an interesting spy story with what should have been a spectacular ending. But what actually happens is that it after an hour or so of some very well made and well acted spy stuff and then the whole movie falls down flat with some of the very worst "special" effects seen on the silver screen.To quote Nigel Hawthorne (who stared in the movie) "They shot hours of footage of the clouds with various planes and we saw it in the rushes and we were all impressed. Then we saw what they did with it and it was terrible." (during an interview on Wogan, BBC TV).Even the laser-disc based arcade game looked better!

The Soviets have developed a new revolutionary jet fighter Firefox that could evade radar and function using brain waves. They recruit Russian speaking ex-Vietnam pilot Mitchell Gant (Clint Eastwood) into the Soviet Union to steal Firefox. He is still haunted by his experience in Vietnam. He is assumed to be expendable and takes the identity of a heroine smuggler who is tracked by the KGB.I don't know why he is taking on the identity of a drug smuggler. That seems like the worst idea ever. The whole infiltration is completely unbelievable. It's also pretty lifeless. The movie is way too long. The plane is good fun and that's the only salvation. It just takes forever to get there.

Title: Firefox Condensed Storyline: An American pilot is sent into the USSR to steal a prototype of a jet which is controlled by a mental linkNotable Acting: This is in no way the best Clint Eastwood movie, but it isn't the worst movie he's done either. In the eyes of fans it leans towards the latter end of the spectrum. Everyone else feels like they are given secondary character syndrome, where I would like to see more of them to assess their acting, but the movie knows this and shows me less of them. Noticeable Camera work: I saw a couple of birds eye shots for when people are talking in their war rooms along with a quick worms eye when Gant is killing the KGB officer. There aren't all too many creative shots, they are mostly just your standard run of the mill shots, but I will let that go as this is an older movie. Incorrect Science: After the Firefox is stolen, General Vladimirov explains that "in order to maximize fuel, Gant would have to control his speed and fly low to conserve fuel". This is almost completely true. The controlling speed part is true, but flying low is completely incorrect as the air is denser closer to the ground, this is why all aircrafts fly high as the air is less dense the higher you go. This is why it is harder for climbers to breath the higher they climb. The altimeter in the Firefox shows the Mercury levels in inches, Russians didn't use inches, they used millimeters. The other reason the Americans want the Firefox is because it can reach speeds of Mach 5&6, whereas the American jets "melt" when they go past Mach3. The SR-71 Blackbird can go faster than Mach 3.4 and they were introduced in 1966. Looking at shape the Firefox it isn't aerodynamic enough to reach those speeds, it also runs using turbine engines, the maximum a turbine engine can reach is Mach 3.4. So the shape and engines of Firefox are what prevent it from going any faster. Seeing as its science fiction I will not touch upon the fact that the USSR has knowledge of neurotechnology in 1977 that bests that of knowledge in 2014. Overall Feel: One of your typical cold war USSR vs US movies, the premise of the movie is good, but the camera quality is sorely dated. I personally would love to see a modern remake of the movie set in the modern day. It would make the storyline more believable as in the 80's they were still using VCRs and massive cellphones. Today we have people working on neurotechnology for all sorts of applications, including military applications, we also have technology to build such feats of engineering that Firefox would require. But needless to say, this is a great classic action, sci-fi thriller that everyone should watch. The camera work isn't all too creative, but older movies didn't think that creative angles would make films better. This film may be older, but it is a great movie regardless of its age and most of it holds up great for today, sadly some parts of the camera quality do not hold up as good, but it is still a great viewing experience overall.