IslandGuru Who payed the critics

Unlimitedia Sick Product of a Sick System

Holstra Boring, long, and too preachy.

Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

phelpsmarc I just watched the pilot of this series on DVD yesterday. Good action, decent acting and an interesting premise. JM Vincent was a good fit as the brooding, tough Stringfellow Hawke. Also, I think the production value is pretty good. It doesn't seem cheesy, even now over 25 years later. I thought it would appear hokey and cheesy, but was pleasantly surprised. The scenery around Hawke's cabin is very nice. This must have been shot in northern California or Oregon, Maybe Washington state. Also, It's interesting to be reminded that Lybian leader General Quadafi was a thorn in the side of the U.S. even more so in 1984 then he is today. Sure, some of the situations depicted are implausible, but as long as you can suspend disbelief, and go with the flow, you'll enjoy this pilot. Haven't seen the rest of the episodes yet but plan on viewing the entire DVD set for some fun 1980's nostalgia

muzafar.h.bokhari (amraampk) This TV series was the best in my view in the 1980s. I 1st start watching it in 1985 when it was aired on our TV network than in 1987 and again in 1989 when its cast and crew was changed. i have got some of its episodes on DVD. in 1980s there a very few good TV shows including knight rider , the a-team, Miami vice , and many more which i even cant remember at this time but this was the best. The one episode which i liked the most was air wolf 2nd, the other was muffet ghost, mad over Miami, and the very 1st one. Jan Michael Vincent was the excellent choice as string fellow hawk. He was handsome and brilliant. I think there should be remake of this series and also a movie to be made. So the people may not forget it.

bull-frog I remember loving this show when I was a kid. I thought the helicopter was the coolest thing I've seen. It was ultra high-tech for it's time. It could repel enemy fire, do all sorts of acrobatics in the air, and take down nearly anything in it's way. Now I go back and watch it today and am surprised how lousy this show really is. The casts members are hardly compelling, there are a lot of cheesy moments, and the fight scenes are incredibly fake looking. And nearly every ending has the same helicopter fighting crap with the obvious reuse of grainy low quality stock footage. Lot of the footages appear to date from the Vietnam War era.Airwolf has basically the same theme as Knight Rider, except the crime-fighting vehicle of choice is a helicopter instead of a car. After watching a few episodes, I found myself utterly bored. I do, however, love the theme music.

Shawn Watson In the early 80's, cool vehicle shows seemed to become really popular. After the success of the Blue Thunder movie, producer Donald Bellisario nicked the idea and made a show of a big, black helicopter that could do loads of things like fly about the desert shooting and well...that's it. Come on! At least K.I.T.T. could talk.In the pilot episode, a brilliant scientist who designed the Airwolf chopper is flying around in circles on the Airwolf open day, showing off the chopper's limited skills to a bizarrely over-impressed audience of Government officials. But he does a 1-80 and guns them all down before nicking the chopper and flying off to Lybia to sell it to deranged Arabs who use each other for target practice.The man in charge of the Airwolf project, the cycloptic and simply named Michael 'Archangel' Coldsmith Briggs III, survives the attack and calls upon renegade chopper pilot Stringfellow Hawke (no relation to the London nite-club owner sex symbol) to nip over to Lybia and steal the chopper back. Sound like Iron Eagle I-VII? Hawke agrees, but only if they promise to find his brother who is still MIA in the 'Nam or something. This plot device is an obvious hook to churn out more seasons.And Airwolf did exactly that for a few years. Every week baddies would get together in a bit of desert outside of LA to do their evil deeds only to be thwarted by a cumbersome chopper filled with ludicrously dated equipment that in real life would fall out of the sky like a bus instead of buzzing around at a zillion miles per hour.Despite being one of the most low-concept shows to ever be a hit, I just find it boring. I like Ernest Borgnine but I can only assume he signed on for this show to pay off his loan-shark. I'm not too keen on Jan-Michael Vincent either, the man who (to quote Biff Tannen) took his life and flushed it completely down the toilet. He's not much of a hero and his character is too brooding to ever really connect with. Where are the fun characters like Face, Murdock and Sam Beckett? Those are characters you can root for.Universal studios did some cool shows in this part of TV history. But in regards to military antics and blowing stuff up, Airwolf is to The A-Team what Street Hawk was to Knight Rider. Donald Bellisario scored much bigger, more dynamic hits with shows like Quantum Leap and Murder, She Wrote. This one is too simple and too derivative.Even the music was dull. Sylvester Levay, the man who did droning scores to Cobra and Navy SEALS, made a totally crap theme for this show that has nothing on the classic A-Team tune. But I seem to be in the minority here as a limited edition score CD that was released a few years ago goes for absolutely ridiculous amounts of money on auction sites. It's just too synth for me, which dates it badly.I'm sorry to say that Airwolf just don't do nuthin' for me. Give me a crack commando unit or David Hasselhoff's Knight Rider afro any day.