Reviews

After the success of Top Gun, rip-offs were a given. Fire Birds is without a doubt, the worst of them. With such great memorable quotes as "Snort this!!!" (Sean Young blowing up a helicopter), "Damn he's fast" (Nic Cage commenting on another chopper), "I'm you momma now", and "I AM THE GREATEST!!!" (both Nic Cage again), this script is unintentionably hysterical. With future academy award winners Nicolas Cage and Tommy Lee Jones, you would guess this film would be somewhat decent. Well, guess again. Whatever studio executive "green-lighted" this fiasco should be forced to watch it a-la A Clockwork Orange. Then maybe he would feel the pain the audiences who paid money in the theatre to see this trash felt. I'm sure that if Cage, Jones, and then up-and-comer Sean Young could go back before they signed their name on the dotted line for this one, they'd have fired (pun intended) their agents for even showing them the script. What were they thinking???