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Overview

User Rating:
4.2/10   2,622 votes
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Director:

David Green

Writers (WGA):

Step Tyner (story) &
John K. Swensson (story) ...
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Release Date:

25 May 1990 (USA) more

Genre:

Action | Adventure more

Tagline:

The best just got better.

Plot:

The U.S. Government is willing to help any country that requires help in ridding themselves of drugs with support from the Army... more | add synopsis

User Comments:

You've got to be kidding me more (44 total)


Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Nicolas Cage ... Jake Preston

Tommy Lee Jones ... Brad Little

Sean Young ... Billie Lee Guthrie
Bryan Kestner ... Breaker

Illana Diamant ... Sharon Geller (as Illana Shoshan)

Dale Dye ... A.K. McNeil
Mary Ellen Trainor ... Janet Little
J.A. Preston ... General Olcott
Peter Onorati ... Rice
Charles Lanyer ... Darren Phillips

Marshall R. Teague ... Doug Daniels
Cylk Cozart ... Dewar Proctor

Charles Kahlenberg ... Oscar De Marco
Gregory Vahanian ... Tom Davis
Bob Lujan ... Steward Rives
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Additional Details

Also Known As:

Wings of the Apache
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Runtime:

85 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

Australia:M | Iceland:L | Canada:14A (Ontario) (video rating) (2004) | Norway:15 | Canada:AA (Ontario) (original rating) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Manitoba) | USA:PG-13 (certificate #30312) | Argentina:13 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:11 | UK:15

Filming Locations:

Tucson, Arizona, USA more


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

The "Scorpion" attack helicopters are actually Hughes MD-500D Defenders more

Goofs:

Factual errors: An OH-58D (The helicopter flown by Sean Young’s character) can not be flown single-pilot in the left seat. Many of the Mission-Related controls are only available to the Right-hand seat (Pilot-in-command seat.) more

Quotes:

Brad Little: [demonstrating Apache's capabilities to Preston] You could crash this thing at twenty G's and survive but I am NOT going to prove it to you! more

Movie Connections:

Features Crack USA: County Under Siege (1989) more

Soundtrack:

White Flag more


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10 out of 17 people found the following comment useful.
You've got to be kidding me, 6 February 2005
2/10
Author: king_of_fla from United States

The first tip that you're in for a stinker is the generic use of the term "South America" without naming a specific country (kind of like talking about "Asia" or "Europe" or "Africa" in the same way). Then there is Nic Cage as helicopter pilot par excellence Preston telling the Joint Chiefs that the drug cartel is "killing Americans every day." When Tommy Lee Jones shows up for a totally obnoxious performance -- and certainly when the utterly disposable Sean Young appears just minutes later -- you realize you're watching one of the biggest turkeys ever put on celluloid.

The only thing that saves this from being a "1" -- barely -- is the fact that there are marquee stars in this, and the extra point is for marveling at what kind of morons these stars must have for agents.

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