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Dr. Moffet (David Hemmings) has developed a super-copter that can reach
mach speed and is armed pretty much to the teeth - in a word, a super
weapon - for the gouvernment ... but during a demonstration for a senator
(Eugene Roche) Moffet decides to go rogue and fly the copter, christened
Airwolf, to Gadaffi's Libya instead. So gouvernment agents Archangel (Alex
Cord) and Gabrielle (Belinda Bauer) turn to Hawke (Jan-Michael Vincent),
once a top pilot in the Vietnam who is now a stunt pilot for a film
production. He turns them down though as ever since he lost his brother in
action he's not into that kind of work anymore. But with a mix of force
and gentle persuasion - Hawke and Gabrielle eventually have a thing - they
manage to get him and his partner Dom (Ernest Borgnine) on their team. Now
sneaking into the Libyan fort where Airwolf is parked and taking
possession of the copter is ... really easy, actually. But while they're
at it, Moffet has taken Gabrielle - who acted as Hawke and Dom's contact
in Tripolis, captive, and he ties her up to pretty much roast her to death
in the desert. So after Airwolf escapes all the enemy helicopters - which
are no match for the supercopter anyways - it's a mission of revenge
against Moffet ... Airwolf is a typical product
of its time, a macho fantasy where a man's still a man, and one lives by
the rule of "my gun is bigger than your gun" - so as long as
this attitude is not a complete turn-off for you, you might be mildly
amused. As a TV-pilot this one isn't even half bad, as the helicopter is
at least an impressive gadget - even if its use gets repetitive over time
-, and there's plenty of action and gunfights - not all greatly staged I
might add. The one real downside is Jan-Michael Vincent's very
expressionless "acting" coupled with his often slurred lines,
but even that's kind of funny if for all the wrong reasons. In all, not a
classic, not even "good" TV - but a fun trip down memory lane,
even if you've never watched the show in the 1980s.
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