Reviewing Movies

A corrupt New York judge places a wanted IRA Terrorist in the home of an Irish Cop played by Harrison Ford. The devil here is packaged in the person of Brad Pitt. The two bond but there can be no happy endings in this Irish Story.

This movie was made in 1985 and nothing dates it more surely than the fact that it is hip to the fashions of its time. The popular music played on a Walkman certainly but in this age of low-rise jeans that barely cover the hips jeans with waistlines that nearly cover the navel look startlingly out of style. I'm not up on present-day high school lingo but I'm sure the air force brats in this show are 3 decades out of date. The planes and their armaments are dated as well as is the technology that surrounds them.

I like Jason Gedrick who was twenty when this movie was made. Although in common with so many other Hollywood actors he is divorced he managed to survive the move from teenage to adult roles and his life does not seem to have become fodder for the gossip mills.

Louis Gossett Jr. plays his part as Doug Master's mentor with relish. The whole is somewhat jingoistic and unless one enters into the spirit of the thing rather far-fetched. For an equally edge of your seat air force experience watch Into The Sun. Both movies inspired by the success of Top Gun.