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  • Actors: Clint Eastwood, Freddie Jones, David Huffman, Warren Clarke, Ronald Lacey
  • Directors: Clint Eastwood
  • Writers: Alex Lasker, Craig Thomas, Wendell Wellman
  • Producers: Clint Eastwood, Fritz Manes, Paul Hitchcock
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: 27 Jan 2003
  • Run Time: 119 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00007L3SE
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 5,183 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Synopsis
An entertaining cold war fantasy, this thriller is piloted by actor-director Clint Eastwood. When the Russians develop a Mach 5 jet with thought-controlled weaponry, the free world needs someone to go and steal it from them in order to maintain the balance of power. Mitch Gant (Eastwood) was once a hotshot pilot and speaks fluent Russian, so despite his mental instability (he's suffering from posttraumatic stress as a result of his experiences in Vietnam), he's the man for the job. Along the way, he's aided by some Jewish dissidents (including a scientist played by Nigel Hawthorne). Essentially, Eastwood has adapted an espionage thriller by Craig Thomas into a fun action film. The jet itself is impressive and the final dogfight between the two Firefox prototypes is quite thrilling.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Damn - they've edited the original!, 3 Oct 2003
By P. Deer "Phil Deer" (Norfolk, UK) - See all my reviews
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Firefox has always been one of my favourite films, and while it's a bit cheesy and jingoistic 20 years on, it is entertaining - especially seeing fine British actors like Nigel Hawthorne (rest his soul!) and Kenneth Colley making a pig's ear of their Russian accents...

However, in this DVD version they've edited out a lot of the best bits - including a lot of the interplay between the politicians and General Vladimirov at Bilyarsk when they are trying to plot the retrieval and destruction of the MiG-31.

I was really disappointed by this, and haven't watched the film again since - though it's comforting to know it's on the shelf.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Eastwood flies high but DVD never gets off ground, 8 Jan 2005
I remember renting this one out from the video shop a heck of a lot in the mid 80s and always loved it. Clint Eastwood is one of those actors who is watchable in just about everything he does and here he plays a war-haunted US pilot sent to steal the Russian super-jet called the FIREFOX. I always liked the way this one started off slowly building up the tension in the airport scenes (where he has his papers checked continually and ends up slugging it out with a KGB agent in the gents) right the way through to the last 1/3 of the film where he flies the FIREFOX home evading Russian missiles, helicopters and a prototype version of the plane that pursues him over the ice-flows. The DVD is a disappointment though in that several scenes are cut out including some at the beginning that sees Eastwood's character train in flight simulators and ponder his chances of success with a fellow officer. Great movie, DVD could have been better
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2.0 out of 5 stars Cold War cliches on the wing, 29 April 2007
By Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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I'm not sure whether Firefox is really a guilty pleasure or simply a film I remember as being one. It's certainly overlong and overfamiliar despite its neat Maguffin - Clint Eastwood's flashback-plagued Vietnam vet fighter ace has to steal a state-of-the-art warplane with a thought-controlled weapons system (as long as you remember to think in Russian) from the heart of the Evil Empire - but it has a sort of undemanding Cold War charm that the constant stream of clichés only reinforces. Even the old school model effects in the final chase-and-dogfight section are more fun in their way than modern CGI effects, especially when the Firefox is leaving a wall of water in its wake as it races across the sea or causing fallen snow to fill the air as it passes over the mountains, so it's a shame that much of the last third is played in darkened control rooms rather than the skies.

The Russians, naturally, are mostly played by British actors, albeit in this case actors best known for their sitcoms, which adds a different dimension to their scenes as comically humourless KGB types or lemming-like dissidents only too happy to die for the cause, or incorrigible hams like Freddie Jones who simply look like they SHOULD be in a sitcom. There's even an almost admirable perversity into giving most of the explanatory dialogue in the last half-hour to Klaus Löwitsch, an actor with a shaky grasp of spoken English who sounds like a bumblebee caught in a vacuum cleaner pipe. Not good by any means, but strangely watchable, and Maurice Jarre contributes an enjoyable score from the days before he disappeared entirely into atonal electronics.

Whereas the Region 1 NTSC DVD is the uncut theatrical version before Clint re-edited and trimmed the film by some 12 minutes without visibly improving it for video release, sadly the European PAL DVD is the shorter cut version. Boasting a good 2.35:1 widescreen transfer, it also includes a 29-minute British behind the scenes documentary and the theatrical trailer.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Up and at 'em!!
Clint triumphs again!-as a Cold war warrior Clint delivers yet again in this Espionage/Airborne thriller.The flying scenes and photography are really super. Read more
Published 3 months ago by L. Collins

3.0 out of 5 stars who decided to cut it
Firefox is one of my favourite films, since I saw it when it first came out. I've had the film on video for over twenty years but it was starting to look old and worn. Read more
Published 5 months ago by C. Bowden

4.0 out of 5 stars Clint is paired with the MiG
As Mitchell Gant, Clint helps the US smuggle a super-secret Russian fighter craft out of its hangar deep in the heart of Russia and fly it over to our side. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Jay

3.0 out of 5 stars Firefox, Wheres The Remake!!!!
Firefox came along in the early eighties in a time where we saw super hi-tec vehicals galore. ie Knight Rider, Streethawk, Blue Thunder and Airwolf but Firefox has to be said... Read more
Published on 22 Oct 2006 by muzik maker

4.0 out of 5 stars Spiffy chase scene
Back in the days when the Ruskies were known as the USSR, they invented a supersonic attack plane MiG-31 (Firefox) with the ability to respond to thought. Read more
Published on 25 Aug 2005 by bernie

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Fun!
A flawed film (low budget, stretched special effects) but great fun nonetheless! A fave from my childhood! Read more
Published on 2 Mar 2004 by rjb

4.0 out of 5 stars Why no DVD?
After recently buying the VHS version of the movie, I knew I was buying a good movie, but I had forgotten how brilliant it was. Read more
Published on 18 Aug 2002 by steveatdurban

4.0 out of 5 stars This Ice Thriller is well acted and paces with 007
I enjoyed the film immensely and I can still remember the clip where the firefox takes off from the Iceland base which is hidden in the North Pole. Read more
Published on 29 Jan 2002

3.0 out of 5 stars Comrade Clint
Its the cold war and the Russians have developed a plane that cannot be detected by radar and a weapons system operated by the pilots thoughts. So NATO wants to steal it. Read more
Published on 3 Jan 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars Possibly the best film ever !!!
This is an excellent film with an excellent plot and story line and is a must-have for ever video collector. Read more
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