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The ending, a condensed version of the movie 'Bat 21,' is itself implausible, but the human sacrifices and noble speeches that accompany it would have shamed John Wayne. Is he really a mean SOB, or a good guy? Does he just talk tough, or does he mean it? Some scenes say one thing, some say another, while the movie develops an absurd and unbelievable ending and a final shot so cloying you want to shout rude suggestions at the screen. Then there are all the flip-flops the Glover character goes through. There's one scene in particular - a dressing-down that Johnson gets from Glover - that seems wrongly placed in the movie it plays like an error in continuity. Their conversations about this run provide some of the movie's most interesting moments, and the aerial footage, while not ' Top Gun' quality, is effective and exciting.īut then the movie loses its way. He wants to inflict some real damage on North Vietnam, in revenge for his dead buddy and '50,000 other Americans.' Dafoe is game, and together the two plot an illegal and dangerous bombing run against 'Sam City,' the anti-aircraft installation in Hanoi. Inevitably, he ends up as Johnson's new partner.

Delivered to the carrier, he pauses for a second because he wants to smell the scent of a warship, and we're reminded that John Milius, who directed this movie, had a hand in the screenplay of ' Apocalypse Now' with its immortal line 'I love the smell of napalm in the morning.' Dafoe says he's back for a third tour because he likes the work. Meanwhile, back on the flight deck, hard-as-nails bombardier Willem Dafoe has turned up for his third tour of duty. Then there's a brief break for R & R, during which the Barroom Brawl Rule is observed ('If the characters in a movie go into a rough-and-tumble saloon, a fight will eventually break out'), and then Johnson meets a young Navy widow ( Rosanna Arquette) and spends a sweet interlude with her. He expresses his frustration to his commanding officer, played by Danny Glover, but Glover talks tough and won't listen to complaints.

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