Roger Spottiswoode directs Mel Gibson, Robert Downey Jnr and Nancy Travis in this action comedy based around the CIA’s illegal air network of death wish pilots who flew cargo around Asia in the Sixties.

Has all the ingredients of a Saturday Night sizzler. The end product proves a better VHS rental trailer than a fully fledged movie. It doesn’t congeal. It needed to stew up to work. There just isn’t enough wisecracking buddy comedy explosion peril. Not as much you would desire, or were promised. Riggs and Iron Man are at the peaks of their respective addictions but let’s assume the energy they bring is from pure A-List star power. What if Good Morning Vietnam had some kick ass flying stunts? A one-watcher with some memorable pyrotechnics, extraneous subplots and a wimpy goody two shoes wrap-up.

6

Perfect Double Bill: American Made (2017)

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