Air Strike

(2002) Air Strike ADVENTURE/ WAR/ ACTION

Straight-to-rental and very low budget semi- war movie centering on a group of soldiers that fly Longbow helicopters shown on the poster, and apparently one or two helicopters were shot down while shooting at some terrorist site on some European country full of trees and bushes similar to what one can see from his back yard. This specific action set piece uses old fashion animation and model sets which if anyone were to use the pause button should be able to make out that it looks really fake. Anyways, the movie was originally made in 2002 and not 2004 as RT indicated above which was closest to the time when 9/11 happened and it is intended to rally American soldiers except that the acting was second rate and the action is mediocre at best. The main good guys are the American soldiers of course combating a war on terrorism except that it's on some other foreign land that is farthest from where terrorists reside but was made like that because it may be made during the invasion of Iraq and not Afghanistan. Some helicopter soldiers after a fake unconvincing gunfire shoot out blasting bridges and so forth, and they they appear to be winning this little war since one of the soldiers was chanting U-S-A... U-S-A, until a single terrorist armed with a RPG manages to shoot down two Longbow helicopters equipped with several missile strikes. So they retreat and upon returning to the base happens to be a brother of the main star of the movie who vows revenge on the terrorist whose responsible. He was supposed to be done but because that unfortunate news, he was forced to come out of retirement. The terrorists also succeed in robbing some European bank with absolutely no problem including blowing up the area where they stole money from is one of the ludicrous scenes for a film to finance their terrorism acts which has nothing to do with the them indicates that the story was improvised just because it could even though the main baddie doesn't even need the money because he's also a drug trafficker. Illogical and terrible with small glimpses underneath young girls skirts/ dresses while dancing. The movie itself looks like it could've been directed by Roger Cormon himself. Avoid at all costs BOMB.

I believe this is a major accomplishment by Hollywood. The first widely distributed commercial movie directed and written entirely by 12 year olds.

The clichés are overwhelming, the editing seems to have been done by a lazy slob - especially apparent during a scene where top army brass watch a helicopter goes down on his monitor screen - who the heck was the stupid jerk holding a camera 50 feet from a battle helicopter in a jungle during combat?

Last words: if Americans really do act the way they are portrayed in this movie, it is no wonder that many hate them so much.

The Nu Image film company can often be depended on to deliver some good, mindless action in one of their straight-to-video movies, but this particular one drops the ball in EVERY aspect that you can think of. You shouldn't be surprised that there is no one in the cast that you recognize - not only was the movie apparently too cheap to hire even a faded B movie star, but the dialogue is often so bad that even a faded B movie star would think this movie would destroy their reputation. Needless to say, the unexperienced no-name cast is incredibly bad at spouting off the inane dialogue. What about action, surely there must be at the very least some good, mindless action? Nope. A lot of the footage of the flying Apache helicopters is obviously footage from the major studio movie "Firebirds", cut together with the new footage to make things absolutely unexciting. Pathetic explosions and bad use of slow motion are the icing on this turd-flavored cake. If you were a willing participant in the making of this movie, shame! Shame!

I rented this DVD for $1 as a weekly, and I still feel ripped off. I cannot imagine the production company made a profit from this film? I hope DEJ productions make a better film next time.

Also, it looks bad when they use poor computer animation for some of their helicopter scenes.

There seemed to be a lacking of logic in the way the soldiers and pilots carried out their missions. Poor editing too, probably just rushed. But what can I expect for $1.

You may be able to get a refund on your money, but that is 95 minutes of your life you will never see again.

This movie is absolutely incredible. It essentially includes every crap and cliché about "badass Americans" (Go! Go! Go! Shoot! U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!) Approximately 1/3 of the movie takes part in pubs in meaningless macho pilots discussions "who had bigger balls", "who has bigger balls" or "who will have bigger balls" (including pretty blonde - which is actually pretty intelligent - and she is general's daughter too - and she is amazing female Apache pilot - of course with some stress syndrome which makes her somehow less usable than real U-S-A macho pilot). Approximately 1/3 of movie scenes do have BIG U-S-A FLAGS in background with big U-S-A talks in foreground ("terorists" making fun from "flag-wavers", letters of dead soldiers pathetically read by officer and such patriotic-anger inducing crap). The last 1/3 of the movie consists of explosions and poorly animated Apache sequences. It is very strange for such hyper patriotic movie but it seems to be pretty anti-patriotic sometimes as officers do smoke Havana cigars (isn't it still illegal in US?). The pilots seem to be pretty inept too, because multiple Apaches are shot down with RPG-7 which is actually anti tank-short range weapon. It is pretty hard to hit helicopter with something like this, essentially the target must not maneuver at all and shooter must be very good too. These "U-S-A" ace pilots do fly like sitting ducks and are constantly shot down with bunch of guys with wool hats, AK-47s and RPGs. Let's hope these terrorists never get hands over actual anti air weapons, or the "U-S-A" is doomed I think... Well this movie seems to be parody of itself. I think it was written by some anti-American leftist propaganda intellectual, as it is really poor, stupid and technically complete inept. No, I do believe no American is actually so stupid and inept as these "U-S-A heroes". I do hope that filmmakers have been used as practice targets because this is really an incredibly huge insult to Apache pilots.