Bird in the 80's

Bird On A Wire. Not much i can say about it. It truly is the best definition of an eighties film i can think of. Try and bring this film out nowadays, post 9-11, it would never happen. Films like this, died along with the style of the time. That tongue and cheek action film that only ever arrived in the eighties, has been lost, but their is potential for the franchise again.

Meanwhile, lets focus on this particular film.

Mel Gibson (When he was good) and Goldie Hawn star in this, romantic, action, adventure, crime, thriller, comedy. Oh yes, it is indeed all of these things. It may be cheesy but it's my kind of film, and this exactly the kind of film that's able to put a smile on any face, unless you really hate mel gibson.

The film is about mel gibsons character who has been under witness protection for fifteen years and is now outed by his enemies and is hunted down by both the police and the criminals due him being framed. That's not all, Goldie Hawn, plays the love interest, whom after fifteen years of thinking he is dead, is reunited with her past fiance.

The two go on the run in a mismatched adventure.

In this one film alone, there is two car chases, a bike chase through narrow ally ways and the likes, a plane chase and a climax in a zoo exhibit including, live tigers, lions and alligators.

The film jumps around, in slow motion sequences of everything exploding, to fast cut shots of a car narrowly missing a bus, with incredible stunts that would never happen in real life, (unless your 80's mel gibson, for him that shit happened every day).

Under all of this is a classic soundtrack, by Hanz Zimmer, in his fantastic, phase of electric drums, and sythesized guitars.

This truly is the film of the 80's and if i could think of a better one i wouldn't be writing this blog now would I?