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Producer/director/star Clint Eastwood takes his sweet time getting Firefox started. Eastwood plays Mitchell Gant, a past-his-prime U.S. pilot, smuggled into the Soviet Union to steal a new Russian sup... read more read more...ersonic fighting plane. Fortunately the KGB men are as burnt out as Gant, enabling him to abscond with the plane with the greatest of ease. The rest of the film is a protracted chase, pitting Gant against scores of impersonal MIG pilots. Based on a novel by Craig Thomas. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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PG, 2 hr. 16 min.

Directed by: Clint Eastwood

Release Date: June 1, 1982

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DVD Release Date: October 1, 2002

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  • SirPant
    April 3, 2012
    SirPant
    Firefox is an odd film. In 1982 you can't help but think it was a few years too late as all the really good Cold War films were made in the 70s and where tons better. Fredrick Forsyth it ain't but there is something quite clumsy about it that I quite like, not so bad it's good bu... read moret something uniquely silly that I find charming. A very generous 3 stars.
  • ythelastman89
    December 5, 2010
    ythelastman89
    The first half of this movie is utterly flawless and therefore I can't say it's bad. While the last forty minutes are absolutely ridiculous, the rest is good enough to even things out. Clint Eastwood does a great job at playing a man of disguises and looks as threatening as possi... read moreble, even up against classic Indiana Jones and Star Wars henchmen like Toht and Admiral Piett. There's a really great espionage story at the heart of everything, which should be remembered above the cheesy airplane scenes and psychic Russian commands.
  • sononothing
    December 4, 2009
    sononothing
    The 1980's were not great to Clint Eastwood. For every good movie he did during the decade, there was another that was borderline horrible. You know their names: Pink Cadillac. City Heat. White Hunter, Black Heart. Holding a special place in this list of Eastwood flops from the R... read moreeagan era is Firefox, a film that's dull as hell and is the worst miscasting of Clint Eastwood's career.

    The film is about a mission to steal a new Russian jet called Firefox, which is able to achieve obscene speeds and runs just by the pilot thinking. That means you have to get a pilot to sneak into to Russia that is the same build, great at flying, and can speak Russian. That narrows he list down to Mitchell Gant (Clint Eastwood), a former pilot in Vietnam living with shell shock (if you don't know what that is, please look up the George Carlin bit) that fits the criteria perfectly. It's up to Gant and the Moscow underground to get him to the plane so that he can steal it for the USA.

    The first thing I noticed watching this film is the number of people willing to die so that Eastwood can steal this plane. It's not like it's the atomic bomb or you're going to stop mass genocide- it's a damn plane. We'll have the Japanese build one that's smaller, faster, and better. Don't sacrifice yourself.

    Basically, the entire movie is a cat and mouse game. The KGB are going to get him and....................oh, Eastwood escapes yet again. That's the movie. Over and over again. What should have been a MacGuffin plot in a James Bond film is now a full blown movie with Clint Eastwood as the super spy. But he isn't. It's Clint Eastwood. He isn't sneaky and able to slip through the cracks. Let's imagine Dirty Harry trying to be sneaky. Doesn't work, does it? Eastwood's legend is the guy that roars in, guns blazing with witty remarks against his dumbfounded superiors. Firefox doesn't do that and shows Eastwood in the uncomfortable state of an unstable spy behind the Iron Curtain. It's a failure for the legend.

    Sadly, he also directed this film too and with the special effects sequences at the end and the espionage plot throughout he fails to keep our interest. We're just bored as hell and when the big finish starts we're treating to some of the worst special effects seen in the 1980's. You have to remember that this film came out the same year as E.T. and was sandwiched between two Star Wars films and the other effects heavy films of the early '80's. Firefox's effects are laughable.

    This film is for Eastwood completists only! It's an artifact. It's a legend stretching himself too much into a role that in no way suits him. This film is a complete disaster. A true plane crash. (Hardy-har-har)
  • stormyweather980
    September 8, 2009
    stormyweather980
    Tommy Riley (James Marshall) goes to a different school and is immediately bullied around and threatened by several of the school's students. After getting in a street fight, Pappy Jack (Robert Loggia) notices Tommy's strong and fierce punch and invites him to be a boxer. Tommy w... read moreas formerly a boxing champion before coming to this school and his record is undefeated. This town is full of gangs and violence, and one day Tommy helps a black boxer named Lincoln (Cuba Gooding, Jr.), and they then have a good friendship. Tommy is now making good money being a boxer and he has some friends, but something just doesn't seem right.
    "Gladiator" is an exciting boxing and drama movie. What makes it so great is not only the exciting fights, but the great acting by everybody in the movie, mainly James Marshall, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Tommy's promoter, Jimmy Horn (Brian Dennehy). If you like exciting boxing movies that have a plot or just great movies in general, I recommend getting "Gladiator." NOTE: That was my Amazon review from the year 2000. It was among the first Eastwood movies I ever saw, now I know he has wayyyy better ones.
  • harrycaul
    December 23, 2007
    harrycaul
    Though he's too much of a craftsman to produce a complete turkey, Eastwood the director is never so dull as when he's tackling a spy movie. Stupidly, the film cannot decide whether to use the Russian language when Eastwood, supposedly fluent, is talking to enemy soldiers, or whet... read moreher both parties should just speak English with the understanding that they're actually talking in Russian. Not only is this confusing, it's ridiculous because we get Russian-accented soldiers, who are actively seeking a foreign agent, happily conversing in English with American-accented Eastwood; one gasps with incredulity at how they can't spot him.
  • Deano78
    June 10, 2007
    Deano78
    A dodgy film with even more dodgy SFX....stick to Top Gun for your aerial action!
  • stuartb1234
    March 2, 2007
    stuartb1234
    Boring
  • superclerk25
    February 26, 2007
    superclerk25
    You dont' get to see him kick butt in the super plane until the very end.
  • sainttom93
    January 14, 2007
    sainttom93
    Another great Clint non-western, non-Dirty Harry movie
  • garyX
    December 24, 2006
    garyX
    Extremely laboured and dull cold war "thriller". The dogfight sequence isn't bad, but it's sooo long in coming.

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Critic Reviews

Jeffrey M. Anderson
February 12, 2010
Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

The movie is gripping in a slow, sure way. Full Review

Nick Schager
June 20, 2005
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness

As a spy adventure, the movie is close to abysmal. Full Review

Alex Sandell
January 17, 2004
Alex Sandell, Juicy Cerebellum

The movie is saved from the trash-bin thanks to Clint Eastwood.

Scott Weinberg
August 23, 2003
Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com

Once the chases kick in and the invisible jet shows up, you'll have already withstood a healthy amount of yawns for your troubles. Full Review

July 22, 2008
Variety

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Roger Ebert
October 23, 2004
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

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Vincent Canby
August 30, 2004
Vincent Canby, New York Times

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Dave Kehr
January 1, 2000
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

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Chuck O'Leary
October 10, 2005
Chuck O'Leary, Fantastica Daily

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Emanuel Levy
July 16, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

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