It was one of the first movies I saw when I was 3 or 4 years old. I did not catch much then, but the main thing I remembered was that the hero in the divine helicopter was fighting evil. In the child, all this evoked a unique feeling that adults do not have – a feeling of the strongest inspiration in the image and the desire to turn into this.
Revisited the adults... The premonition, of course, was immediately bad. So, the film lasts 1 hour 40 m, of which the first 50 minutes is garbage, which in a good way should be thrown into the bucket on the editing table. Acquaintance with the hero, with his family, with his work, with his superiors, with his friends, with his complexes - all this is the garbage part of almost any film, boring, unnecessary, but someone decided that every film and every viewer should make such a sacrifice in order to enjoy the second half. It's certainly a myth. The movie is either good from the first minute or you can turn it off.
The same helicopter epic is present here only at the end and does not make any impression on an adult: there is almost no fiction here, the helicopter is quite ordinary. As for the plot, here is a really bad scenario:
- As soon as the heroes overheard the conversation exposing the villains, they had to rush to the base in full steam and shout at all frequencies about what they had heard and that they urgently needed a witness protection program. Because otherwise their fate is sealed. But for some reason they were hoping... what?
- When the hero found out where the tape was, he just had to come there by bus, pick up and take it to television. That's it. He literally needed nothing more. Instead, he hijacked a helicopter, dragged a friend in, let her pick up a package, staged a race from the police, a war in the sky, destroyed several civilian objects and got into such articles that he would run for the rest of his life. I don't really understand that. He did not have the task for which all this was necessary. Just pick it up and carry it!
- The ending is missing. Yes, the voice of the announcer said that the perpetrators were arrested, but given the very amount of garbage in the bin, we can confidently say that neither the topic of the family, nor the topic of the boss, nor the topic of the madness of the hero were not completed. That’s why I hate film expositions – directors forget about them at the end, these storylines are still replaced by action and the ending will still not be about what the beginning was about.
One might say that assumptions are needed for a plot to happen, and if the hero had quietly delivered the package, what would the movie be about? But the fact is that the screenwriter and director face the task of how to make the plot happen and remain logical. It was necessary to create circumstances in which the hero could not do otherwise. For example, after he got into the helicopter to hear a friend’s last message, the police were waiting for him and he had only to take off. Is it that hard?