Firefox

1982

Action / Adventure / Thriller

32
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 41% · 17 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 42% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.9/10 10 31219 31.2K

based on novel or book flying assault pilot kgb kampfjet

Director

Clint Eastwood Photo
Clint Eastwood

Top cast

Clint Eastwood Photo
Clint Eastwood as Mitchell Gant
Oliver Cotton Photo
Oliver Cotton as Dmitri Priabin
Kenneth Colley Photo
Kenneth Colley as Colonel Kontarsky
Michael Currie Photo
Michael Currie as Captain Seerbacker
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
1.03 GB
1280*534
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
2 hr 16 min
Seeds 12
1.99 GB
1920*800
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
2 hr 16 min
Seeds 31

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Installation_At_Orsk 7 / 10

"You must think in Rrrrrrussian!"

Reviewed by ma-cortes 6 / 10

Espionage story about a pilot who goes behind Iron Curtain to steal a fabulous jet fighter

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 .
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