Director David Green
Starring Nicolas Cage, Tommy Lee Jones, Sean Young
Rated M
Score 3/6

The U.S. Government is willing to help any country that requires help in ridding themselves of drugs with support from the Army. Unfortunately, the drug cartels have countered that offer by hiring one of the best air-combat mercenaries and have armed him with a Scorpion attack helicopter. The army decides to send in it’s best people from it’s Apache Air Combat school.

I suppose this review in reality is a revisit, I don’t remember how old I was when I last watched this one but it was at least fifteen years since I last watched this movie. Though for the record the scene with Nicolas Cage’s character driving a jeep with women’s underwear on his head seemed less funny this time round.
Fire birds is not the best of movies, come to think of it borders on being completely forgettable and to add another nail in its coffin Fire Birds could be considered Top Gun’s awkward younger cousin.
Though with that being said Fire Birds was made about ten years before the string of Nic Cage movies that left you saying ‘why did he even bother?’ and also if you’re on the long list of people who avoid Nicolas Cage movies keep in mind there’s Tommy Lee Jones to steady the ship.