Directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, Firefox tells the cold war story of retired pilot Mitchell Gant, recalled to active duty (having retired to a secluded house in the country to recover from Vietnam trauma) to infiltrate a high security testing base in communist Russia (USSR) and steal their prototype fighter plane, the MiG 31 or Firefox.
As cold war dramas go, this is fun on a variety of levels. Espionage, flashbacks, disguises and general spyi...ness, this film has it all and then some.
The final scenes in the air are striking and certainly, in this reviewers opinion, make ample use of the relatively modern 'reverse' bluescreen and a $21,000,000 budget. Despite the poor reception at the box office, like many of the films on this site (Hell comes to Frogtown not withstanding), Firefox has more than made it's initial outlay back, three times at present.
Fun Fact: Sadly the sequel, written by author Craig Thomas, Firefox Down, was never made into a motion picture. I wait with baited breath and quite probably deluded hope.
As cold war dramas go, this is fun on a variety of levels. Espionage, flashbacks, disguises and general spyi...ness, this film has it all and then some.
The final scenes in the air are striking and certainly, in this reviewers opinion, make ample use of the relatively modern 'reverse' bluescreen and a $21,000,000 budget. Despite the poor reception at the box office, like many of the films on this site (Hell comes to Frogtown not withstanding), Firefox has more than made it's initial outlay back, three times at present.
Fun Fact: Sadly the sequel, written by author Craig Thomas, Firefox Down, was never made into a motion picture. I wait with baited breath and quite probably deluded hope.
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