Falcon Down

Being a huge science fiction fan I picked this movie to balance out my wife's romantic comedy pick. Ironically, in spite of all the expectations of a terrible B grade movie, I was pleasantly surprised in some areas. OK, so there was a laughable storyline. Was this a blatant ripoff of that terrible 70's movie FIREFOX with Clint Eastwood? And if so, why would anybody choose to ripoff such a disaster to begin with? Dale Midkiff couldn't act his way out of a paperbag, much less this movie. The CGI special effects were embarrassingly bad and were barely a step above 1950's Buck Roger's flying saucers. BUT here's the good stuff. Judd Nelson is actually pretty good in this film. Maybe I'm so used to seeing him in his typical schoolboy role, but he really does a reasonable convincing job as the conspirator. And any opportunity to watch William Shatner is always good. The set design was surprisingly good for a movie that probably didn't have much for sets. A very interesting design for the flight deck, especially from an aircraft buff like myself. And a nice design for the aircraft itself, reminiscent of the old Valkyrie experimental airplanes that were mothballed by the airforce after a few disastrous test flights.

An ex-fighter pilot(Dale Midkiff)uncovers a military conspiracy after he is asked by the U.S. Government to steal a supersonic plane carrying a very deadly secret weapon. Little real action. No thrills. Mediocre special effects. Far fetched Sci-Fi. Most characters are over acted. A bad imitation of a good movie. The cast also includes: Cliff Robertson, William Shatner, Judd Nelson and Jennifer Rubin. Question: Does Midkiff actually report to the IRS that he is an actor?

The blurb on the DVD case lied when I saw this in the shop but thank goodness I had only paid 9 dollars for it.

If ever one could win an award for making an awful movie this is it. The blurb told me it would be a somewhat exciting film but it was in my opinion woefully disappointing. The action scenes didn't contain much action, and the little video segments bordered on the hilarious.

In short don't waste your money buying this film but if you must see it rent it.

Just a comment on the trivia bit: The Valkyrie supersonic bomber is a long fuselage with a delta wing at the root and canards at the cockpit area. The Valkyrie is 180 feet long; the Falcon is 49 feet. The Valkyrie has six engines, the Falcon has one. The Valkyrie does not resemble the Falcon in the slightest, not even the Dassault Falcon. I do believe that the trivia bit just may be a little off.

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Reply to "As I was flying right behind TWA 800 flight on my way to Sweden and heard the explosion, it still makes me cringe, I still believe, it was a missile that took the plane out! There were over 150 witnesses in NY Long Island and close by areas who witnessed something like a rocket coming out of the ground or water. When interviewed by FDA, and other Government Orgs, without being able to get together to make up a story that was the same among all witnesses, I truly believe it was a coverup. FBI did not take the statements from the witnesses in account and dismissed them. The FAA was never asked to testify." I was there from the 106th Operations Group or the 106th Rescue Wing, and the FBI did take statements; they did a 5-year anniversary documentary, it wasn't a missile, The head of the FAA said the FBI sold parts, where it was set up at the old Grumman base i grew up on, he retold this story on the show,it landed between 2 bases that had PJ jumpers, they went to 6 homes that had given statments, and they all have long grass that would fit 5 years and they were empty, one had food still on the plates in the kitchen, it was a test of the Star Beam at Brookhaven National Lab. The only other plane in the sky was Navy and Flt 900 flying down the middle of the island,