a5c7b9f00b Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. After losing his pilot's license, Billy Covington is recruited into it, and ends up in the middle of a bunch of lunatic pilots, gun-running by his friend Gene Ryack, and opium smuggling by his own superiors. A young pilot finds himself recruited unwittingly into a covert and corrupt C.I.A. airlift organization operating in Vietnam War-era Laos. Unfunny, unorganized action-comedy about a wacko pilot who doesn't really do much but be a wacko. Gibson gives his all for the role, but it's all for nothing if the story doesn't make any sense, which is indeed the case here. A mess of film that at times doesn't know where it wants to go, but fans of Gibson will at least be satisfied. Actionlamea Chuck Norris revisionist Vietnam movie. Comedy that makes Stooges look sophisticated. Cartoon villains. Exceptionally bad acting from Gibson and Downey. Goodness this is a horrible movie. I would be surprised if this movie lasted in theatres beyond the first weekend when the reviewers would have savaged it. The sad thing is there's probably a decent drama in here about drug- runners and gun-runners in the Vietnam war. But they didn't make that movie. They made this pile of garbage. Roger Spottiswoode's Air America is partly glorious, partly junk, but unfortunately not in equal parts.
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