LeonLouisRicci A Great Big Hit When it Came Out, This Conspiracy/Action Movie is Remembered Fondly by Fans Who Viewed it in the Theatres in 1983. But Today, the Action is OK but Not That Great Considering. However, it was More Prophetic than Originally Planned. The Blue Thunderous Machine is Perhaps a Cloning of Wireless and Warrantless Surveillance Technology and Drones. This Makes the Movie Haunting and Thought Provoking When Audiences Rediscovered it in Recent Years.The Film Takes its Theme Almost to the Background in the Way it Focuses on the Aerial Action and the Sting of Big Brother is Relegated to "Whisper Mode". The Muted Message, Today, can be Heard Loud and Clear.It's a Fun Film Nevertheless and Delivers its Thrills in an Over-the Top, Sometimes Reckless Abandon of Real Life Consequences. Roy Scheider and Malcolm McDowell are Good-Bad Guys and Their Characters are Just This Side of Stereotype.The Film Holds Up Pretty Well and is Worth a Watch for What it Does Best, and Despite its Reluctance to Go Deep in the Weeds of the Troubling Scenario, the Movie Manages to be Quite Unsettling, Albeit in its Near Subliminal Story of What Was to Come and It Did Come in a Multitude of Ways. The Aforementioned Surveillance, Drones, and the Militarization of the Police Force.

verbusen Memories, I would have been 19 at the time in Southern Cal, and in the Navy. Dating a hot chick who had a Firebird like Rockford had (except it was yellow), I watched this film and was so blown away I decided to go back and take her that time (lol). I was still blown away. The ending is just awesome when Scheider takes on the jets, just the most awesome thing ever, really. Also, this film reinforced my love for McDowell, he is perfect here and my second favorite role he played (first being Clockwork Orange of course). Stern is also really good here in a uncharacteristic good guy role. But Scheider is the main man here, he was on the crest of his fame, I had watched him in Jaws and also in Marathon Man, here he was the main man, (outside of the helo). Does it hold up well now to a contemporary viewer? Maybe not a 10 but it should at least rate a 8, great early 80's action film.

rmlattimore but if that's what you want to see, you'd watch that instead of this. What Blue Thunder is, is a very well-done action movie. The plot is thin, a contrivance in order to pit Roy Scheider against Malcolm McDowell. McDowell, really, only lacks a mustache to twirl and a cape. (As someone else said, really, why WASN'T he ever a Bond villain? He'd have been much better than Jonathan Pryce or Christopher Walken, both fine actors miscast in their Bond bad-guy roles. He could have been a Bond bad-guy with THIS role.) The movie never drags. In the context of suspension of reality necessary for movies, the plot never makes you go, oh come on. You hiss McDowell, you root for Scheider. The ending is fairly predictable but no less satisfying. This movie was roaring good fun back in the 80s and it holds up now.

disdressed12 i remember watching this movie years ago and not being all that impressed,but this time i really liked it.it's basically about an experimental helicopter which a certain group of people have a nefarious purpose for.the test pilot founds out about this and decides to try and stop their plans for it.the movie is never boring.in fact it's quite exciting at times and fast paced.there's some intrigue thrown in for good measure,but mostly it about the action specifically aerial chase sequences,which are pretty well done.Roy Scheider plays the test pilot while Daniel Stern plays his co-pilot.for me,Blue Thunder is an 8/10