slightlymad22 Continuing my plan to watch every Mel Gibson movie in order, I come to 1990's Bird On A Wire.Plot In A Paragraph: Rick (Gibson) helped convict a drug-dealing FBI agent, and was placed in the witness protection program. Fifteen years later his former fiancée Marianne (Goldie Hawn) crosses paths with him at a gas station, and before you know it, goons show up to kill him, and the two former lovers go on the run.Slated by critics upon release, I have a real soft spot for this movie. OK some of the things wouldn't fly today (Gibson's gay hairdresser for example) and Goldie Hawn has been remaking the same movie over and over since Foul Play. But I do like it. Most of it is down to the two leads. The movie pretty much let's Gibson do his own thing, and he seemed to be having fun, but at times he does come off as a bit of a jerk!! At his best here, he is a bit of a watered down Riggs!! Hell his pose on the poster/DVD cover is almost identical to the one on Lethal Weapon 2. As for Hawn, she looked great!! I'm of the opinion that Goldie Hawn got more and more attractive as she got older, peaking in the Bird On A Wire and HouseSitter era. She handles all her action scenes, romantic scenes and comedy scenes wonderfully!! And man what an ass!! I love it.I also like John Badham as a director, he has directed more than a few movies that I love!!I'm of the opinion that it was solely the star power of Gibson (and of course Hawn) that made the movie a hit, as it grossed $70 million at the domestic box office to finish the year the 16th highest grossing movie of 1990!! A head of Rocky V, Godfather 3, Goodfells and Edward Scissorhands despite some truly awful reviews!! Including one that said "Bird On A Wire fails on every level"

SnoopyStyle Marianne Graves (Goldie Hawn) is a tough lawyer. Passing through Detroit, she runs into mechanic Billy Ray who looks exactly like her fiancé Rick Jarmin (Mel Gibson). Only Rick died in a plane crash 15 years ago. Rick is actually in witness protection and calls into the FBI to find his case handler gone. He had put away corrupt drug-dealing DEA agent Eugene Sorenson (David Carradine) who is now out on parole. Agent Joe Weyburn (Stephen Tobolowsky) schemes to get his new identity and location. Sorenson and his partner Albert Diggs (Bill Duke) almost kill him before Marianne comes to the rescue. The police are after them for the gas station owner's death and so do the bad guys.The situation is forced. Rick should have revealed his story sooner to Marianne. She most certainly walks away from him especially with their initial fighting. The police are after them with the flimsiest of evidence. The setup isn't very believable. There was a whole trial but apparently, one mouse click will erase everything. The movie is caught between the broadest of comedy and the biggest of action. I'm willing to live with all of it but the fake gay hairdresser is bad. The zoo is a weird place to go for the climax. The most notable thing about this action comedy is the title song.

tbills2 I love Bird on a Wire. It's smart, it's fun and exciting, it's free, and it's a beautiful thrilling adventure. I love the Bird on a Wire song. Bird on a Wire is not an action oriented action movie, it's more a romance, and I love it for it's love story. It's like straight out of the pages of your favorite romantic novel with a pair of super sexy stars all happening in this raw and intense bang-bang action world!The way that Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn are on the lam in Bird on a Wire, are always on the run and constantly in danger, it's like a sexy fantasy getaway to get lost in, a major turn on. Goldie Hawn is a major turn on, my God. She's the sexiest! Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn are the absolute hottest in Bird on a Wire, and these two hot stars determine the show, believe me! They share their one of a kind flirtatious attraction for the viewing so that the two come off as incredibly irresistible. Goldie Hawn flashes her butt so much in Bird on a Wire, I think I might want to see it again. Mel Gibson manages his way into his undies enough times, too, so don't worry, lady viewers, there's plenty of sexy to go round!Bird on a Wire is one real and one sexy romance that's all dressed up as a deadly crime drama, and that's kind of why it can sometimes be misinterpreted. Bird on a Wire is a beautiful love story. It's best to enjoy this movie for the steamy romance relationship between the two main stars, Goldie Hawn and Mel Gibson. I know I did. I love you Goldie Hawn, and Mel Gibson. You're beautiful!'Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free.'

blazesnakes9 Some movies followed the same routine over and over again. Sometimes it worked. Sometimes it doesn't. And Bird on a Wire doesn't worked. With a cast that has two of the most attractive movie stars leading, it just didn't worked entirely for me. Bird on a Wire stars Mel Gibson as a retired FBI informant who is working as a car mechanic, staying away from all of the operations that he had to be part of in the past. One night, a lawyer, played by Goldie Hawn, enters Gibson's gas station and recognizes him after 15 years. Hawn learns that Gibson is hiding from the bad guys that were chasing and they eventually show up to kill him. Pretty ironic that you meet your old flame and your old enemies at the wrong place at the wrong time. When Gibson and Hawn go on the run after the bad guys pinpointed their position after founding where Gibson has been hiding out in Hawn's apartment, the movie turns into a chase, with Hawn and Gibson being chased through the streets of Detroit and even in the air with a crop-duster. Now, that is a cliché in movies that doesn't work. It seems to me that Bird on a Wire burrowed other elements from other movies. Basically, the movie that I thought of while watching Bird on a Wire was Romancing the Stone because at the end of this movie, the final confrontation takes place in a zoo, full of wild animals. That kind of setting brings out the adventure in the movie beside the crop-duster scene. As for the performances in the movie, Mel Gibson can be better in the Lethal Weapon movies and in the Mad Max movies because when he does star in the Lethal Weapon movies, he brings out a sense of style with his character. Here, there is no style at all. Goldie Hawn, I thought, was not appealing as Gibson's lover. She sort of goes into a Private Benjamin character. Another thing I couldn't understand is why did they have to show endless, gratuitous shots of Goldie Hawn's butt? I mean, what's the point of that? Their chemistry together don't work. I can tell this because this couple bicker and banter throughout this movie. That get aggravating for awhile. Bird on a Wire isn't exciting, isn't funny and surely, isn't that all thrilling. ★★ 2 stars.