benjaminwg Call me crazy, but I'm pretty sure I took my mother to go see this and remember being confused as to why the poster said it was Not Rated. It wasn't at the theater for very long, but the 35mm print looked AMAZING. I vividly remember them banking to get a look at the mushroom cloud. The visual effects were excellent. This story, the performances, and those visuals have stayed with me for many years. I wish it would get a quality transfer from whatever 35mm prints may still exist or a transfer of perhaps one of the post-VFX inter- positives. I doubt the owners would pay to redo the optical composites digitally from the original "plates" and scan the 35mm negative, but that would obviously be ideal. RIP Powers Boothe.

notca8 This film was recommended to me by a friend or (ex-friend as he has become to be known after this movie,)and I had high hopes for it, with stars such as rip torn and James Earl Jones.But this was truly awful, with truly awful acting and scriptwriting. The story could and should of been so much better, but it was soo bad, i actually signed up to IMDb, just to comment on it.Dropping nuclear bombs just to kill fighter jets? come on..... and classic lines like...."bogey's my are, them's bandits"......all the guy needed was the cowboy act and well it would be fantastic......I got 45mins & 36 seconds into this movie and then decided i really didn't care, fast forwarded to the last 5 mins, and pleased for the credit to come.However this was released onto DVD, ill never know......All i can summarise is, a truly awful movie, and one which makes you wish that a nuclear bomb had been dropped, just to save everyone from this movie.

rodney_h Hey, can't I give this stinker a zero. I really hated to give it a one. Typical hollyweird ultra-left, lunatic fringe liberal crap. Production values seem good, cinematography okay....it's the story that's awful. My gosh, I hope and pray that our military is better trained and will carry out their orders better than depicted in this bilge. I've never been so disappointed in a movie in all my life. James Earl Jones, Rip Torn, Powers Boothe, Rebecca DeMornay, and the late Darren McGavin, the cast reads like a who's who of actors/actresses I've always liked and admired. I just downgraded them to my "B" list from now on. For me, the most ironic scene in the movie was when Rebecca De Mornay asked Powers Boothe "Did we do anything right?" My answer is NO!

myersranch The 2 rating provided IS generous - this has to be one of the worst movies ever- POOR acting, POOR storyline, POOR production....disjointed, unrealistic and filled with inane script and scenes alike. A few VERY feeble attempts to mimic FAIL SAFE (a classic!!!) - .... probably the most pathetic acting by James Earl Jones (gotta laugh at the stupid cigarette sequence) - what the hell was that all about? The two lead actors (pilot and co-pilot) gave the most out of character and grossly idiotic performances ever seen on film. Even Martin Landau disappoints, and as for Gavin Mcleod , duh... Right from the laughable intro motel scene to the final idiotic comment by deMornay this film will either immensely aggravate you or have you rolling in laughter as you watch scene after scene of idiocy and pure unadulterated garbage. Geez WAS this BAD!!!!