Rent Blue Thunder (1983)
3.3 of 5 from 78 ratings
1h 45min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Chosen to test Blue Thunder, Frank Murphy (Roy Scheider) is amazed by the high-speed high-tech chopper. It can see through walls, record a whisper or level a city block. Distrusting the military mentality behind Blue Thunder, Murphy and his partner Lymangood (Daniel Stern) soon discover that the remarkable craft is slated for use as the ultimate weapon in surveillance and crowd control. Jeopardised after being discovered by sinister Colonel Cochrane (Malcolm McDowell), Murphy flies Blue Thunder against military aircraft in a spellbinding contest over Los Angeles.
- Actors:
- Roy Scheider, Warren Oates, Candy Clark, Daniel Stern, Paul Roebling, David Sheiner, Joe Santos, Malcolm McDowell, Ed Bernard, Jason Bernard, Mario Machado, James Murtaugh, Pat McNamara, Jack Murdock, Clifford A. Pellow, Paul Lambert, Phil Feldman, John Garber, Anthony James, Robin Braxton
- Directors:
- John Badham
- Producers:
- Gordon Carroll
- Voiced By:
- Shaaron Claridge
- Writers:
- Dan O'Bannon, Don Jakoby
- Others:
- Edward Abroms
- Studio:
- Columbia Tristar
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Drama, Thrillers
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 03/08/2009
- Run Time:
- 109 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby TrueHD 5.1, Italian Dolby TrueHD 5.1, Spanish Dolby TrueHD 5.1
- Subtitles:
- Danish, English, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.40:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- Bonus:
- Director, Editor and Motion Control Supervisor Commentary
- "The Special": Building Blue Thunder: Making Of The Helicopter
- 1983 Promotional Featurette
- Ride with the Angels: Making Blue Thunder
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Reviews (1) of Blue Thunder
Thunder Without Lightning - Blue Thunder review by griggs
Sometimes you just need a film to take you for a ride — and this one obliges with considerable rotor-assisted enthusiasm.
John Badham’s paranoid techno-thriller is what happens when you take the brooding government-distrust energy of a 70s conspiracy film, feed it through a Frankenheimer paranoia machine, then accidentally leave an episode of Airwolf running in the background. Yes, the helicopter comparison is lazy. Yes, I’m making it anyway.
Roy Scheider does what Scheider does: he doesn’t dazzle, he anchors. You believe him completely, which is exactly what Blue Thunder needs. Meanwhile, Malcolm McDowell is clearly having the time of his life as yet another silky British villain, and honestly, why cast him any other way?
It’s not quite a classic — the plot loses altitude before the finale — but as a slice of early-80s techno-paranoia, it’s a genuinely propulsive watch.
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