Aeroboss 4: The Air Wolf For fans of statistics, this is the fourth and final series of films called “Aeroboss” and episode 7 in the adventures of Frank White’s character played by Frank Zagarino. Although if we consider that the 3 and 4 film consists, as it were, of two parts, then we already have not seven, but as many as 8 or 9 different stories with this hero.
Due to the fact that in the fourth part there are two different independent stories, by the way, not even separated by any verbal tables of contents, these two names of the picture refer, as it were, to each of its subseries.
One of the titles of “Airboss 4: The X Factor” refers to the first half of the film. Frank White, along with his strike group, landed for training in a place with coordinates: latitude 42.17 longitude 121.34 (LAT: 42 17 Lon 121 34), which when searched in Google gives China, but in fact the action takes place in the forests of America. After conducting the first joint exercises with Secret Service agents, White’s group is relocated to another location where a surprise awaits them. After all, now they shoot at them not with blank ammunition, but with combat, and the conditional enemy has become a real one. The blame was again the Russian mafia and former Soviet military, who, according to the authors of the film, carried out a classic Soviet-style attack and captured Frank himself. In captivity, he is stuffed with soda Panadol coupled with a powerful hallucinogen to brainwash and turn him into a spy who will be normal on the outside and belong to terrorists on the inside.
Quite a good sub-series with a show of slices from the first Aeroboss, which flash like the memories of the main character in the drug state of Frank. There are also references to the very first parts of the film, where Frank White was played by screenwriter, director and producer J. Christian Ingvordsen. Due to the fact that during the exercises, the ammunition is blank, and the enemies need to be killed with something, the adventures of other members of the strike group, who after the attack scattered in different directions in search of weapons, were pleased. One of them even found a hut with moonshineers he was trying to drink. There are also correct and clever speeches that should please the Russian audience. The daughter of the U.S. Admiral, Commander Frank, said of the Soviet Union: “The Soviet Union was a beautiful dream until we declared an arms race, don’t you see that we are the nation that bankrupted them.” In general, the 45-minute episode turned out to be good, there are shootings in the forest, and the water flights on airplanes are shown only in the second part of the film.
Second title: Aeroboss 4: Eco Warrior already reflects the essence of the final part of the picture. Sometime in the 45th minute, it is shown that Frank, wearing a helmet with the words “Bad Dog” on a fighter jet, trains a student before combat flights. Everything seems to be going well, but Frank White breaks all the instructions and his friend the Admiral sends him on vacation. The fault of Frank's experiences for the girl student from the first series of "Aeroboss", which crashed on the training. The footage of Frank and the admiral talking is cut straight from the first part. Surprisingly, it is on vacation that he finds himself again. The fact is that the daughter of the Admiral disappeared, having escaped to the organization “Eco warrior” and now Frank must find her.
Despite the fact that it is 2000, the film was shot in the manner of the very first series of adventures of Frank White under the title “Covert Action” (Covert Action) released in 1988. The film belongs to the lowest category of action films resembling television productions. The business card of the Aeroboss series was Frank Zagarino, who acquired the second quadrology after the Shadow Hunter Project. The series has a certain charm. There is even a kind of humor in there. So in this episode, Frank defuses a bomb by flipping a coin and wondering which wire to cut. Cons of course a lot, to list everything, even meaning is not, but I want to note that it is in this series the main villains, for unknown reasons, for some reason completely disappeared, what happened to them, whether they overtook the punishment of justice is unclear.
Although the rating of the film is +16, you can see because of the presence of a scene of frank striptease, which does not allow the younger generation to watch the film, but it is for them that I would recommend watching it first. Especially for boys who are still playing war.
3 out of 10