Lazily plotted paranoid thriller. The main instrument of paranoia is a crowd-control combat helicopter that can see and hear through solid walls. But the technology-crazy moviemakers can't hide their ambivalence about this. They seem to feel that such a Big Brother weapon is quite all right as long as it's in the right hands (not the United States Government's, of course, but rather those of a maverick daredevil in the LAPD, tormented by remembrances of Vietnam). The half-hour aerial dogfight that closes out the movie attains an almost slapstick quality in its disparity between high property damage and low human casualties. Roy Scheider, Malcolm McDowell, Warren Oates, Daniel Stern, Candy Clark; directed by John Badham. (1983) — Duncan Shepherd
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