| Firefox [Region 2] |  | Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Freddie Jones, David Huffman, Warren Clarke, Ronald Lacey
Category: DVD
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Rating:  75 reviews
Sales Rank: 233576
Format: PAL
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Running Time: 136 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 7321900112192
ASIN: B00007L3SE
Theatrical Release Date: June 18, 1982
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Amazon.com
You can tell Clint Eastwood is getting old by all of the "retired" characters he plays who are pressed back into service, as in this early '80s effort. It's one of Eastwood's lesser action entries, in which he served as both star and director. He plays a retired fighter pilot who is enlisted by the U.S. government to infiltrate the Soviet Union (back in the days when it was still an Evil Empire) and steal an ultra-top-secret fighter plane with all kinds of superior capabilities (back when the Stealth bomber was still a struggling prototype). Sure, no problem. Except that it takes forever to actually get Clint into the plane--and once he's got it, he keeps interrupting the fighter-plane sequences (the best thing about the movie) to land the thing and have fistfights and gunfights. --Marshall Fine
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 I love the plot and the ending February 26, 2010
callcam
This is a suspense filled spy and adventure film with much intrigue. I think it's one of Clint Eastwood's best. Fast shipping.
Spiffy chase scene September 22, 2009
bernie (Arlington, Texas)
Back in the days when the Ruskies were known as the USSR, they invented a supersonic attack plane MiG-31 (Firefox) with the ability to respond to thought. They had it and wee wanted it. So we decided to sneak in and take it. The only problem was that to operate it you had to have Ruskie thoughts as it could tell the difference.
Out only hope was retired pilot Mitchell Gant (Clint Eastwood) but still a tuffy. His mission is to sneak into the USSR and pilfer the plane. Little did we know there is a second plane and a tuffy Ruskie pilot, so the chase is on. To add to the tension Mitchell was a Vietnam prisoner and suffers under stress.
Will he succeed or be shot out of the sky?
The story was probably inspired but the Soviet defection to Japan in the 70's when we pulled their advanced MiG apart to fined that while we moved on to electronic controls that they were still using wire and hydraulics. How ever when we realized it was immured to Electro-magnetic-pulse we had to take a sober look.
Clint Eastwood - Adventurer (Firefox / Space Cowboys / White Hunter Black Heart)
3 stars out of 4 April 12, 2009
One-Line Film Reviews (Easton, MD)
The Bottom Line:
A sneakily-good Cold War thriller which suffers a bit from dated effects but makes up for it with a high level of tension, Firefox won't be mentioned in Clint Eastwood's obituary but it's an engaging movie whose running length flies by faster than Clint's MiG 31.
firefox April 22, 2008
Gina T. Layog (michigan, usa)
I've always wanted to buy this dvd, ever since I read the novel and saw the movie on t.v., I've search for this dvd and I found it on amazon.com. It's a good movie, with flawed characters, but despite this he made it, and the amazing dogfight with the other firefox, it just blew my mind away, eastwood is great!
Spy Thriller December 2, 2007
Loyd E. Eskildson (Phoenix, AZ.)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
FireFox was made in 1982, with Clint Eastwood as star, director and producer. It is a two part movie - a spy thriller and then a satisfying high speed MIG chase. The fun begins when Mitchell Gant (Clint) manages to steal a high speed MIG under the noses of the Communists.
FireFox is a Cold War spy thriller that grabs you at the beginning - with Clint playing a Vietnam War vet who has flashbacks and is just glad to be out of the war. Because he is uniquely qualified - fluent in Russian and a top notch jet pilot, he is the only person our government can find to have a chance at stealing a top secret MIG from a Russian airbase. This is a cloak and dagger escapade - and one close call after another for Mitchell Gant. Not only does he have to pass as three different identities, he has to hold his sanity together to steal and deliver the MIG to U.S. agents. The rest of the cast plays a bit oddly against Clint's character, almost like a Batman movie. Freddie Jones and Nigel Hawthorne are over the top. Warren Clarke is more believable. Ronald Lacey plays a Jewish scientist, in on the plot. I enjoyed the whole movie, however, the second half special effects looked more like a video game. The MIGS flying through deep canyons was deja vu Star Wars and still played out to be really great stuff.
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