This movie is everything I love about Italian exploitation films.
It's logo looks exactly like Top Gun while the title refers to Blue Thunder.
It has a cast partly made of American TV actors - Dirk Benedict and Ted McGinley - and international stars like Patsy Kensit and David Warner.
It's directed by Antonio Bido, who also made The Bloodstained Shadow and Watch Me When I Kill, who co-wrote it with Gino Capone, who also wrote Conquest.
It stars as a ripoff of Top Gun and somehow has some amazing shots of real jets in action instead of stock footage. Obviously, Bido got access to some Italian military bases and uniforms to make this look good. So when it starts like any flyboys against the establishment movie, you may be fairly shocked - spoiler warning - when aliens show up.
As they work on new flight maneuvers, Colonel Alex Long (Benedict) - he's Maverick but his call sign is Firebird - and Philip (McGinley) - he's Goose but answers to Thunder - see mysterious lights. After being warned off, Phillip wants to see exactly what it is and flies directly into the light, disappearing and his plane showing up the next day. Alex is accused of sabotaging his friend's plane and making up the UFO tall tale. He's finally able to convince his commander (Warner) to take another trip which costs NATO several more jets. Finally, he becomes friends with a UFO expert named Isabella (Kensit) and prepares to find Phillip by climbing a mountain, guided by Phillip's dad who just so happens to be a mystic mountaineer.
I thrilled to Lieutenant Starbuck (or Templeton "Faceman" Peck) being best friends with Jefferson D'Arcy. The best part is when Alex gets to the mountain's peak, his friend is just standing there, backlit by a UFO and they just leave. That's the ending. Pals, walking down a mountain, after literally finding aliens, no words need be said, I guess.
In Aenigma: Lucio Fulci and the 80s, Bido claimed that Fulci saw a private screening of this movie, then got up on stage and said, "Nobody in Italy would have been able to do something like that." This does not seem like something Fulci would do or a movie he would like.
How wonderful is it that this movie ends with the quote "There's life on every star" from Goethe?
It's logo looks exactly like Top Gun while the title refers to Blue Thunder.
It has a cast partly made of American TV actors - Dirk Benedict and Ted McGinley - and international stars like Patsy Kensit and David Warner.
It's directed by Antonio Bido, who also made The Bloodstained Shadow and Watch Me When I Kill, who co-wrote it with Gino Capone, who also wrote Conquest.
It stars as a ripoff of Top Gun and somehow has some amazing shots of real jets in action instead of stock footage. Obviously, Bido got access to some Italian military bases and uniforms to make this look good. So when it starts like any flyboys against the establishment movie, you may be fairly shocked - spoiler warning - when aliens show up.
As they work on new flight maneuvers, Colonel Alex Long (Benedict) - he's Maverick but his call sign is Firebird - and Philip (McGinley) - he's Goose but answers to Thunder - see mysterious lights. After being warned off, Phillip wants to see exactly what it is and flies directly into the light, disappearing and his plane showing up the next day. Alex is accused of sabotaging his friend's plane and making up the UFO tall tale. He's finally able to convince his commander (Warner) to take another trip which costs NATO several more jets. Finally, he becomes friends with a UFO expert named Isabella (Kensit) and prepares to find Phillip by climbing a mountain, guided by Phillip's dad who just so happens to be a mystic mountaineer.
I thrilled to Lieutenant Starbuck (or Templeton "Faceman" Peck) being best friends with Jefferson D'Arcy. The best part is when Alex gets to the mountain's peak, his friend is just standing there, backlit by a UFO and they just leave. That's the ending. Pals, walking down a mountain, after literally finding aliens, no words need be said, I guess.
In Aenigma: Lucio Fulci and the 80s, Bido claimed that Fulci saw a private screening of this movie, then got up on stage and said, "Nobody in Italy would have been able to do something like that." This does not seem like something Fulci would do or a movie he would like.
How wonderful is it that this movie ends with the quote "There's life on every star" from Goethe?