Review – Flight of the Intruder

According to the trivia on IMDb, director John Milius calls this one of his worst movie-making experiences. I’m assuming it must have been trouble on location or something, because the final product is the same kind of two-fisted macho stuff he’s famous for. During the Vietnam War, an A6 pilot (Tom Berenger substitute Brad Johnson) and his bombardier (Willem DaFoe) decide they’ve had enough of attacking meaningless targets, so they hatch a plot to hit a missile cluster hidden in Hanoi, much to the chagrin of their commanding officer (Danny Glover). The third act gets mired down in uninteresting search-and-rescue drama, but the rest of the picture is a reasonably good war movie. Mildly amusing