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Blue Thunder

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Blue Thunder
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R,1hr 50min
Genres:
Action,Drama
Release:
1983
Director:
John Badham
Distributor:
Columbia TriStar
Starring:
Roy Scheider, Malcolm McDowell, Warren Oates  ...more
Synopsis: Ex-Vietnam chopper pilot Roy Scheider is now in charge of Blue Thunder, a high-tech copter designed to quell possible terrorism during the 1984 LA Olympics. His onetime comrade-in-arms Malcolm McDowell, now his bitter enemy, will stop at nothing to neutralize Blue Thunder and expedite an armed takeover of the United States. Well, there's the plot: now sit back and enjoy those eye-popping aerial scenes. Blue Thunder was later adapted into a weekly TV series. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Mike Cummings, AMG Review
This 1983 production gets an A for its rousing action and an F for its farfetched plot and shallow characters. The film is really a rip-off of Steven Spielberg's 1975 classic, Jaws (whether witting or unwitting), with Roy Scheider again portraying a likeable Irish-American policeman. In the opening scenes, an innocent female dies in an attack, just as in Jaws, and Scheider discovers the perpetrator: ... Full Review
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Roy Scheider
Murphy
Malcolm McDowell
Cochrane
Warren Oates
Braddock
Candy Clark
Kate
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