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Firefox isn't your usual Eastwood film, he's almost branching out into Star Wars territory here with this Sci-Fi heavy Cold War Spy thriller. The effects like every 80's film have dated badly but for a movie made in 1982 they are rather good. Eastwood directs himself in what is a pretty average performance by his own high standards. The majority of the cast is made up by British character actors. Warren Clarke is really good but Freddie Jones and Nigel Hawthorne are pretty hammy. Also Raiders of the Lost Ark fans can spot Ronald Lacey playing Semelovsky a Jewish scientist. The first half of the film is a spy thriller and can be pretty nail biting at times as Clint gets his papers checked at regular intervals. Also he's suffering from the same post Vietnam War disorder that John Rambo had in First Blood and that really adds to the tension. The second half is more like Star Wars and is really great stuff. So better ice up at a cold one and enjoy Firefox for what it is, Cold War entertainment at it's best.

During the height of the Cold War, the Soviet military develops a super high-tech fighter aircraft - it flies fast, has deadly weapons, and has technology that allows the pilot to control guided missiles with his mind. Basically any army with this baby in its arsenal will have air superiority. Clint is assigned to steal it from the heart of Soviet territory for the USA.

The plot is fairly generic and in this day and age most Cold War thrillers have seem to have lost much of their edge, but this is nonetheless an entertaining film from Eastwood. It is not one of his best and not one that he will be remembered for, but no one can deny the slickness of the plane of the title. The final section of the film, which admittedly does take a while to get to, has Clint flying around and raising hell is a fun ride and on par with the final chase in "Where Eagles Dare" in terms of entertainment. However, the buildup has enough suspense to make the whole movie worth a watch. 7/10

Rated PG: violence

This thrilling and intriguing movie is set during Cold War , the URSS has developed a high-tech jet called MiG-31 that can be partially controlled by a neuralink . The Soviets have made a sophisticated aircraft , the latest aeronautic marvel that flies at 6 times the speed of sound, is invulnerable to radar, and worst of all it has a lethal technological weapons system that the pilot can control through cerebral waves and thought . As soon as the pilot detects a threat - either visually or a scope - his brain impulses will direct a missile to that threat , without so much as pushing a button . The American fighter pilot assigned by Secret Service (Freddie Jones) is the Vietnam veteran named Mitchell Gant (Clint Eastwood), a burned-out USAF ace pilot, is smuggled into the USSR to infiltrate the Russian airbase at Bilyarsk, where the supersonic fighting plane Firefox/MiG-31 is being terminated , he must rob it and avoid the mass production that would give the Russians a huge advance . Officer Mitchell Gant goes behind Russian lines and faces a dangerous assignment . In Russia is helped by various secret agents (Warren Clarke, Nigel Hawthorne , Ronald Lacey) against KGB (Hugh Frazer , David Gant) and Soviet officials ( Kenneth Colley ,Oliver Cotton , Klaus Lowitsch ) .

Eastwood directs , produces and plays this exciting film about a pilot sent into the Soviet Union on a mission to steal a prototype jet fighter . This overlong picture takes a while to take off , but when it does , it's cool film . It contains suspense , thrills , intrigue , action-packed and is pretty entertaining . Spectacular aerial pursuits and dogfighting in ¨Star Wars¨ style created by FX expert John Dykstra who made special visual effects in several films such as ¨Galactica , Star Trek ,Batman , Spiderman , X men and Hanckock ¨. Ample support cast full of prestigious British actors who make good performances as as Freddie Young , Kenneth Colley , Stefan Schnabel , David Huffman , Nigel Hawthorne , Warren Clarke and Ronal Lacey , among them . Colorful and appropriate cinematography by Bruce Surtees ,son of great cameraman Robert Surtess and Eastwood's usual . Thrilling and suspenseful score by the maestro Maurice Jarre . Rating : Acceptable and passable but slow-moving and over lengthy .

Clint Eastwood plays Michael Gant, a burnt out veteran sent into the Soviet Union on a desperate mission to steal the greatest warplane ever built.

Minimal training, mental problems, murderous allies, constant danger. His only qualification - he speaks Russian, he knows how to fly and he fits the flight suit.

What I like most about Firefox is how it really puts you in Clint Eastwood's shoes. His character Gant is no super spy - he's a war veteran suffering severe mental problems as a result of his POW experiences. At every twist and turn of the plot the movie captures his tension and fear. His inexperience and mistakes endanger him repeatedly. His only protection - a thin, unravelling web of deception and a fickle KGB desire to observe a little before pouncing.

A must see for fans of atmospheric espionage films and Clint Eastwood.

Firefox is an espionage Cold War era action/thriller that is slick looking and competently made. It had some state of the art special f/x for its time and is one of Clint's most expensive productions. In comparison to his other work, Firefox is neither his best or worst film work. Clint's performance is okay, but the story is really held together by an excellent supporting cast of very talented British actors. Due to the subject matter and f/x, this movie is definitely dated and easily fits in the Reagan era of Cold War action movies and thrillers like Rambo First Blood PT2, Red Dawn and The Hunt For Red October. All of the above are much better, but is not laughable like guilty pleasure Iron Eagle(which I actually like a lot, but can't take seriously). Firefox is a serious minded production, but does not hold up as well against Clint's better movies or similar, more memorable movies that came out during the same period.

The only reason I bought this movie is it related to the USSR. It's quite explicit on the image my country had out there. I can only guess why Soviet propaganda ignored it's existence giving enough attention same time to Rambo, Rocki IV and Red Dawn. Most of the above mentioned movies makes you rather laugh on the "accuracy" of Russian characters and soldiers in particular. Firefox is outstanding in this respect. All uniforms, guns and insignias are just OK if not to say perfect! Living not far from one of the metro stations (Kolomenskaya) adds certain thrill while watching it. Otherwise nothing special. Checking the E-bay for this DVD you get quite a low price which speaks for itself.

"Firefox", while definitely dated, is a good Cold War spy thriller that falls far short of being great. Clint Eastwood plays Mitchell Gant, a burned-out Vietnam fighter pilot who's enlisted to steal a high-tech, heavily-armed, stealth Soviet fighter plane right out of its Siberian hangar. The first half of the film is a John le Carre type thriller – Clint sneaking into Moscow, assuming a Soviet pilot's identity, and making his way to the experimental Firefox fighter craft. The second half, when he climbs into the cockpit of the Firefox, is where the real fun begins.

While entertaining, the film isn't particularly great – apart from Clint's gritty performance as Mitchell Gant, none of the other actors manage to stand out in any way. The jet fighter sequences also haven't stood the test of time – they looked great in the Eighties, but now they just look dated and unrealistic. Certain scenes in the film are little more than padding, buying breathing room between action scenes and doing little else. There's enough tension and action scattered throughout the film to make `Firefox' fun, but there's much better Cold War movies than this (`The Russia House' and `The Hunt for Red October' easily come to mind), and there's certainly much better Clint Eastwood movies than this. B-/C+

... and by my count this line was spoken at least seven times here.

This is a cold war thriller from Clint Eastwood about a Vietnam vet fighter pilot sent undercover and across the iron curtain to steal a new Soviet super-plane. The first two-thirds of the film are a treat, with a lot of tense scenes of Clint and his sympathetic Russian contacts narrowly escaping capture. The last section is where the film loses steam, with a lot of repetitious, dated fx shots of the jet in action.

Warren Clarke is memorable as Clint's chief contact. Also featured are Freddie Jones, Ronald Lacey, Nigel Hawthorne, and Kenneth Colley. As you may have noticed, there are no women listed; this is the rare film with no substantial female presence at all. The real star, though, other than Clint, is the fictional MiG31 "Firefox" fighter jet, invisible to radar, capable of Mach 6 speeds as well as full nuclear armament. The film also borders on science fiction with the jet's thought-controlled weapon systems.

It is a 50/50 proposition as to whether you will like this one. For me it was fun to see Eastwood stretch his directorial skills in a different direction, and even more fun if you actually remember the cold war...or were even alive during the cold war for that matter.

Major Mitchell Gant an ex-Vietnam pilot who suffers from mentally scarred flashbacks and lives a life in solitary in the woods. He's asked back onto a mission, which involves sneaking into the USSR in many disguises. So that he can steal the Russia's new high-tech MIG-31 fighter plane called the "Firefox", which its weaponry works on mind control. Since his America's best pilot, naturally his their first choice to get the plane and fly it back to western soil.

I read a lot complaints against Eastwood's pacing being quite sluggish and can't help but agree. Although the final half of the film might get all the applause with its visual effects and fast-paced action thrills. But actually, I got more out of the atmospherically brooding old hat spy set-up involving Eastwood's character travelling around Vienna (masquerading very effectively as Moscow) to get to the MIG-31. After getting to the jet, it simply falls into the unremarkable bracket and the visual gimmicks come off junky looking and lack any real spark despite the rapid build-up. When it comes to the end, it feels sudden and unfulfilling. Eastwood is pretty dry, but convincing nonetheless as Major Mitchell Gant (since he can get along alone by his magnetic screen presence) and he tackles the director's chair with sharply tight, but practically no-frills direction. The pacing throughout does seem to flounder, but Eastwood creates some moody scenes with gloomy lighting (plenty of nocturnal shots) and Bruce Surtees' burnished photography is splendidly framed to achieve an atmospheric air of growing paranoia. Maurice Jarre's vividly classy music score is titillatingly on the spot. Eastwood deliberately soaks up the bleakly audacious cold war story (adapted off Craig Thomas' 1977 novel) with an array of twists, alienation and minor suspense chipped out of Alex Lasker's hauntingly calculated, but choppy screenplay. Two weak points though, would be there's not much focus and some coincidences are hard to digest. Why I say minor in the tension, is because the suspense doesn't last real long and by being overlong it becomes too relaxed in its own high-strung set-up. The productive script is highly talkative and filled with political jargon, but settles in with some warm moments to share a bit light on the characters. The supporting cast are all capably solid with the likes of Freddie Jones, David Huffman, Warren Clarke, Kenneth Colley and Stefan Schnabel. The glazed up special effects by John Dykstra (who won an Oscar for his work on "Star Wars (1977)") might be mesmerizing and refreshing, but they are far from impressive with one or two arresting sequences executed in between many clumsy takes.

"Firefox" is nothing particularly exciting and far from a success, but I found it strangely captivating and a handsome looking feature. The idea just doesn't entirely translate on this occasion.

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.

I saw this film when it originally came out in the theaters...well over 30 years ago. I'd enjoyed it, but times have changed, I have changed and technology has changed...so do I still think it's a decent movie? Well, surprisingly, yes...it still is pretty good.

The film is a real change of pace for Clint Eastwood. In this one, he plays a Vietnam War fighter pilot who is called out of reserves to help his country. They need an excellent pilot who can think in Russian to go into the USSR for a covert operation....to steal the Firefox fighter jet!! Why is it that important? Well, because they plane can apparently do about mach 6 AND it has a new neural interface...and it's much more advanced than American fighters.

Much of the film consists of the mission getting into the Soviet Union and then to the plane. To me, this was the most interesting part. Then, the final third or so of the film is flying the plane home...and avoiding all the missiles and the other Firefox fighter. This was amazingly made for 1982 but does look a bit dated today. You can't blame anyone for this...CGI technology just has improved tremendously since then. Overall, it's an exciting film and one that is far deeper and more interesting than a standard Eastwood shoot 'em up picture. Worth seeing.

By the way, although the film is mostly extremely well made, in the first of many (too many) flashback scenes, Eastwood's Phantom II jet turns into a Thunderchief fighter-bomber. This was a pretty sloppy use of stock footage.

This was so-so, one of those films that could have been much better had the editing been tighter, in this case in the first 90 minutes. About 20 of that could have been cut. As it was, it took too long for the action to kick in, and was a bit confusing in parts.

Once Clint Eastwood started getting near the plane he was going to hijack the film picked up immensely.

Even though the movie was made 25 years ago, the fighter plane still looks pretty awesome: a combination of a Stealth and Concorde. Too bad this wasn't made today with some great DTS sound. Perhaps a re-make of this would be the answer.

Suppose a specially trained Soviet pilot sneaked into this country illegally during the Cold War and, with the help of Communist spy rings, managed to impersonate an American officer, insinuate his way into Edwards AFB or Area 51, was responsible for the deaths of several American enlisted men, stole a top-secret American fighter which topped anything the Soviets could put in the air, and flew it to the USSR.

That's the plot, only vice versa. If you enjoyed the old black-and-white propaganda films about the success of the underground resistance in Nazi-occupied Europe, you'll probably like this one. Instead of Nazis we have the Russians. Instead of the Gestapo we have Soviet officers but the only difference is the uniform. The Soviets are grim, beady-eyed, humorless, and ruthless. They torture prisoners and are annoyed when the prisoner happens to die. They sacrifice their own people without blinking an eye.

Instead of the heroic French or Norwegian or Czech resistance fighters we have Jewish dissidents who help the hero. They sacrifice their lives for the cause. When trapped, they shoot themselves rather than take a chance of being beaten into giving away secret information.

Instead of Errol Flynn we have -- well -- we have Clint Eastwood in one of his lesser efforts. (Flynn would have been an improvement in the role.) Clint is a top ex-pilot suffering from PTS syndrome but projecting fear is not his forte. He projects it by closing his eyes and breathing a little harder than usual. When he's shocked at something, he registers the emotion by raising his brows and opening his eyes a little wider without changing his grim, determined expression.

Nobody else in the movie really counts, but I loved Freddie Jones in the part of the British operative who explains the plan to Clint. Jones is a burly, florid man with a bush of frizzly hair like the older Dylan Thomas (a fellow Welshman) crowning his occiput. He overacts outrageously, not only chewing the furniture, but ravishing it before swallowing it. He makes Charles Laughton look like the Sphynx. His bobbing head and mellifluous irony make up for what Clint forgot to bring to the party.

The arctic scenes are nice, but the special effects are pretty clumsy. They're so bad that whenever you try to get into the plot while the plane is airborn, the cheesiness jolts you back into the realization that you're just watching a movie.

The airplane, by the way, is SO advanced that it reads minds when it carries out orders. You want it to fire a missile? Just think, "Fire a missile." But -- get this -- the equipment can only read minds that THINK IN Russian. This raises a number of interesting questions about the equipment. How about if you have a Muscovite accent? Suppose you think more like a Ukrainean than an ethnic Russian? If you simply visualize the missile being fired (or whatever) in your right cerebral hemisphere, will the thing still go? Will it go if you think in the conditional -- "If I were to think that the missile should go, then it will go"? If a missile is fired and you think, "Go, Missile, Go!", does it fire a second missile? Suppose you happen to be fixing your makeup in the rear-view mirror when you think the missile should fire -- does it blow you up? Would it fly backwards for a dyslexic pilot? If you think, "Hey, I was only kidding!", does the missile abort?

This film certainly does.

1982- the Cold War was at its first high in years with Ronald Reagan as President of the United States, not yielding or backing down from the Evil Galactic Soviet Empire that threw around its iron fist on the world's weakest thresholds. 1982 was also a year that began to bore pro-American and patriotic films such as "Uncommon Valor", "Missing in Action 1 & 2", "Red Dawn", and "Rambo", which seemed to all predicate the action-war genre of the early eighties box-office until the success of "Platoon".

The film had a good premise: retired American A.F. pilot Mitchell Gant (not the porn star, but Clint Eastwood) is recruited to steal a Soviet supersonic stealth fighter with a neural-controlled weapon system. Only he has to go into the country disguised and invisible in order to negotiate such a maneuver successfully. And Eastwood is burned-out and suffers from PTSD when enslaved by the NVA in the Vietnam War, so he has flashbacks due to it.

It's never established why Eastwood agrees to do this- did Uncle Sam bribe him, or was it for personal reasons of patriotism and nationalism? We are never sure. But oh well. When entering the Soviet Union, we see the oppressed, un-exaggerated totalitarian state it is (I went there a few years after this film came out, and trust me, it ain't a joke) for about an hour. While there, he is asked repeatedly for "his papers", so much that Clint goes bat-sh*t and kills one of the agents. Well, that's not really why, but still, you'd feel like it after being asked for the 18th time there in less than 24 hours. His accomplice played by Warren Clarke (looking much like a blond Oliver Reed) hooks him up with some dissident Jewish scientists who have engineered the MiG-31 and are helping him steal it or "give it a closer inspection" (I still love that line to this day). So when Eastwood is airborne, he is to fly north to the Arctic- refuel- and then land in either England or Alaska. But the other prototype of the MiG-31 (Firefox) is out to shoot him down.

When I first saw this, I was 10 years old and quite ahead of my time (while my friends were playing Pac-Man and watching "Solid Gold"). Had my dad not told me a gist of the plot, I would've been bored. And Eastwood does have a tendency to allow his scenes to drag (i.e.: "Million Dollar Baby", "Unforgiven", "Mystic River"). We didn't need all of the plotting of the evil galactic Soviet generals scene after scene after scene. I would given this movie a higher rating if that were trimmed a little. I'm not going to bash the F/X either: this was 1982- not 2002 where there's CGI coming off the screen. So back then, these effects were cutting-edge, and I still like to watch the final dogfight (even though it's campy to most). I would be more critical to it if they were to use an American plane with a red star emblazoned on it instead.

But the premise was always something THEY would do to US since we were pioneering military technology back in the Cold War. Still worth a watch.

After recently buying the VHS version of the movie, I knew I was buying a good movie, but I had forgotten how brilliant it was.

Although it is predictable to a certain degree, the way the plot and action unfolds keeps you thoroughly entertained. Clint Eastwood does well in a role that is out of character for him - someone who has to follow orders to the T. The only downside to the movie is the dated special effects. But the music which is used when we first see the 'Firefox' makes up for it by giving the plane a menacing character.

A final word to Warner Bros - judging by the quality - or lack of it - released on DVD from the same period, I cannot see why you guys have not launched a DVD. We are missing it out here.

It's not often that Clint Eastwood serves up a boring film, but Firefox is certainly one of his few mis-steps. Clint the director seems excessively fussy about the complexities of the plot while Clint the actor seems so indifferent that one wonders if he wishes he were somewhere else. The original Craig Thomas novel on which the film is based is actually an exciting and well-crafted piece of fiction (I know because I've read it) but this big-screen adaptation sadly misfires on all cylinders.

Former American pilot Mitchell Gant (Eastwood) has moved to a secluded corner of Alaska following his traumatic ordeal in a Vietnamese prison camp. He is approached for a highly sensitive mission when the Western governments learn that the Russians have developed a new, incredibly advanced supersonic fighter jet. Gant's extraordinarily dangerous mission involves going behind the Iron Curtain and stealing the new super plane from its impregnable hangar.

The film trundles along for 136 minutes, but it actually feels much longer. The first 100 minutes of that running time is particularly hard to endure, with an interminable series of cloak-and-dagger exchanges, tediously repetitive flashbacks, and the usual murky plot build-up that goes with he territory in these ubiquitous spy thrillers. The final half an hour or so is slightly more tolerable as it shows Gant piloting the jet out of Russia, pursued by a duplicate jet across the Arctic skies. The aerial special effects are rather unconvincing during this climactic showdown, but at least there's a little excitement (something markedly lacking from the rest of the movie). Maurica Jarre provides a good music score which is probably the best thing about the film. Firefox is a failure on most levels and is strictly one for Clint's most die-hard fans.

Firefox is a bit of a dichotomy in that it tries to be both an action man's salute to the Red, White and Blue and a thinking man's espionage piece. As one can probably guess, it's not very successful in either role, but it's not completely without merit either. It's certainly a more intelligent movie than some of its "patriotic" fluff piece contemporaries.

Mitchell Gant (Clint Eastwood) is the strong, silent type. Plagued by flashbacks of his time in Vietnam, he's a retired expert pilot living in seclusion until his government tracks him down to be pulled back into service for one last mission. He's "the only man for the job." That job, of course, being to sneak into Soviet Russia and steal the most advanced fighter plane known to man: Firefox...capable of feats that, even by today's standards, are a little far fetched (neural-linked fire control, for instance).

Major Gant is whisked off rather conveniently to Moscow where he poses as a known heroine smuggler (among other things). While some of the cat and mouse antics Major Gant and his contacts in Russia partake in are pretty satisfying, the suspension of disbelief isn't that successful. Ultimately, interesting scenes like Major Gant's confrontation with a KGB agent in the lavatory don't mean much because their set-up is, for the most part, improbable. And what 80s anti-communist film would be complete without some good ol' totalitarian bungling, bad Russian accents and some really bad "root for the home team" dialog (perpetrated mainly by David Huffman as Cpt. Buckholz)?

The last third of the film is probably the most enjoyable for most. It's the payoff where we actually get to see Major Gant's attempt to fulfill his mission: to steal Firefox. While the special effects are very dated, the in-cockpit sequences and circumstances might remind you of some contemporary Japanese space-fighter anime like "Macross Plus" or "Yukikaze." That is to say, it's enjoyable, suspenseful and makes you feel like the time you invested in the movie was worth it.

Like Burt Lancaster before him, veteran star Clint Eastwood would often subscribe to that "one for the studio, one for me" policy. The same year that he made the more low key and personal "Honkytonk Man", he made this fairly decent espionage thriller, based on the novel by Craig Thomas. Clint also directs & produces, and stars as Mitchell Gant, a burnt-out former soldier / P.O.W. haunted by his Vietnam War experiences. He's recruited for an extremely risky mission: go behind enemy lines in Moscow, and steal the Soviets' cutting-edge new fighting plane out from under their noses. Needless to say, the mission doesn't always go smoothly.

The movie is overlong, and for a while it's just not as tense (or involving) as it could and should be. But it's still an entertaining story, reasonably well told, with Clint in fine form. It really picks up once the Firefox is in the air. Then it gets pretty exciting, despite the presence of some dodgy effects. The location shooting, widescreen photography (by frequent Clint collaborator Bruce Surtees), and music (by Maurice Jarre) are all first rate.

The real value with "Firefox" lies in an exemplary supporting cast. Freddie Jones may be rather eccentric, but he's consistently amusing in the part of a key exposition provider. Familiar faces such as Ronald Lacey & Wolf Kahler (both from "Raiders of the Lost Ark"), Kenneth Colley (Admiral Piett in two of the "Star Wars" movies), Nigel Hawthorne ("The Madness of King George"), David Huffman ("Blood Beach"), Dimitra Arliss ("The Sting"), and Stefan Schnabel ("The 27th Day") help to make the material more engrossing than it might have been in less capable hands. Keep your eyes peeled for John "Cliff Clavin" Ratzenberger in a small role as one of the men from the submarine.

This may not be a great film, by any means, but this viewer thinks that it shows its audience a good enough time.

Seven out of 10.

I recently reviewed The Dead Zone which, like this, is now 30 years old. I commented that it held up well despite its age. This one doesn't. The plot, if it wasn't ridiculous then, is ridiculous now.

The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called "Firefox." It travels at six times the speed of sound, is invisible to radar and controlled by the thoughts of the pilots. This worries the hell out of the US military as apparently it takes their pilots 2 to 3 seconds to send a message from brain to limb! They decide to send someone on a covert mission into the Soviet Union to steal Firefox. And they choose washed up ex-Vietnam vet Mitchell Gant (Clint Eastwood), a man with mental health issues and looking every bit the age Eastwood was at this time - 52. Why Gant? He speaks Russian, he knows how to fly and he fits the flight suit. Seriously.

For the first hour, the score (by Maurice Jarre) is irritating when it does cut in, the fake Russian accents are laughable, the cinematography average, the acting generally poor and the pacing slow. Other than that it's OK.

Once Gant gets to the plane however, the pace picks up. He is then forced to fly the plane to a re-fuelling spot in the Arctic where a US sub is waiting for him. Even though this plane is impossible to detect on radar, he still can't avoid all the other Soviet aircraft and ships. The dogfight with another Firefox in the final ten minutes is the best bit of the film but the effects involving these planes now look dated - like a model being dangled by a string.Visually the film looks at least 30 years past its sell-by date. Reminded me of Thunderbirds from the 1960s.

If you're determined to see all Eastwood's work then you'll need to sit through this one. But for everyone else, don't.

For some reason I cannot quite put a finger on, this movie is a must-see, and a valuable addition to "movies of depth and character" that should be on your list.

Clint Eastwood, far from his very apparent physical limitations, yet just as strong as his spirited good will, as seen by his role in "Gran Torino", manages to grip us to his side and pray for a good outcome, in FireFox.

The movie seems slow-going, yet...it has that magic that will make you watch it at LEAST 10 times, if not more...simply because the climax and "dénouement" make it SO WORTH the while.

You have to watch it through one time before you are hopelessly and helplessly hooked to watching it again, and again...and again.

This is a great movie to watch if you're interested in hokey, unrealistic junk. Old Clint is indestructible, yet kills everyone else with just a single shot. The acting is horrible throughout, which gives it something in common with the writing and directing. The special effects are the worst I've ever seen; looks like someone holding a model airplane on a fishing pole.