Air America 4K 1990

In the heyday of Carolco Pictures, when Robert Downey Jr. was not yet Iron Man, and Mel Gibson was already at the peak of popularity, this picture was released, coolly received by both critics and the public.

Nowadays the legendary studio founded by Mario Cassar and Andrew Vaina is long gone, and simply such easy and no compulsion pictures are not shot, but “Air America”, reviewed once every couple of years, still helps to spend a pleasant evening session in front of the TV screen.

All because this adventurous military comedy will be to the taste of both fans of military pictures and movies about aviation, and just fans of adventure films. The whole point is that adhering, perhaps, to the main motto of the film “If you can't laugh at war, what's the point of it at all?!”, director Roger Spottiswoode offers us a look at the working life of Air America from the position of the comedy component, putting it at the head of the line.

Through the eyes of one of the newcomers Billy (Robert Downey Jr.) we will look at the life of American pilots delivering various cargoes to help refugees. These guys sometimes behave like real psychos, in search of adrenaline doing strange things. They have fun as they can, while the people of Laos, already accustomed to this kind of weirdness, just say to themselves “Americans”.

Reflecting on what we have seen, we realize that the movie is in no way about war, because it is connected with that lightness and ease in the presentation of the material, and all the non-seriousness of the plot. Together with the integral part of this kind of pictures in the form of beautiful plans and landscapes, delightful flights, a couple of bright explosions and colorful plane crashes, we get exactly that movie, after watching which you understand that such pictures are also needed, but at least as an alternative to all the serious military action films of those years.