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Audiences rate it 25 points higher than critics do. Most of the 1,035 1990s action movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. After losing his pilot's license, Billy Covington is recruited, and ends up in the middle of a bunch of lunatic pilots, gun-running by his friend Gene Ryack, and opium smuggling by his own superiors.
Ratings
IMDb5.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes12%
Metacritic33/100
Audiences rate it 25 points higher than critics do.
681 audience votes
Key crew
- John EskowScreenplay
- Charles GrossOriginal Music Composer
- Roger SpottiswoodeDirector
- Richard RushScreenplay
Cast
- Mel GibsonGene Ryack
- Robert Downey Jr.Billy Covington
- Nancy TravisCorinne Landreaux
- Ken JenkinsMajor Donald Lemond
- David Marshall GrantRob Diehl
- Lane SmithSenator Davenport
- Art LaFleurJack Neely
- Ned EisenbergPirelli
- Marshall BellO.V.
- David BoweSaunders
- Burt KwoukGeneral Lu Soong
- Tim ThomersonBabo
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Themes
vietnam warcentral intelligence agency (cia)airplanedrug smugglingrefugee camppilotlaosdrugs1960s