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A young pilot finds himself recruited unwittingly into a covert and corrupt C.I.A. airlift organization operating in Vietnam War-era Laos.
Air America was the CIA&#39;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&#39;s license, Billy Covington is recruited into it, 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.
Despite his controversial and diminishing status in Hollywood, I&#39;m still a big Mel Gibson fan as an actor. I also like Robert Downey Jr. I&#39;ve heard how mediocre this movie is over the years from people, and put it off. Well. I can now say I&#39;ve finally watched it. I now know why I put it off for so long. Gibson &amp; Downey lack efficient chemistry with one another. It doesn&#39;t have much action to speak of, and the comedy lacks a big ingredient...laughs!. Air America&#39;s two major problems are. 1. It doesn&#39;t know what it fully wants to be, and fails to find the proper medium. Instead we get an uneasy mixture of laughs &amp; serious action, which doesn&#39;t work at all. 2. The lagging pace issues. There was a few times where I looked at the time, to see how much was left. Mel Gibson seems to be on autopilot sometimes. Others he looks really into it. He has charm and swagger to spare, but it&#39;s not his best performance. Robert Downey gives one of his worst performances to date. He wasn&#39;t convincing at all, that cocky charisma of his nowhere to be found, here. Nancy Travis doesn&#39;t have much screen time, and her character is poorly written. Art LaFleur is actually amusing with his phony tough guy act. <br/><br/>Final Thoughts: Talk about a major misfire. It fails an action/adventure, a comedy, and a drama. It has no idea what it fully wants to be, and the result is a mess. You could do worse, but you could also do much better. There is nothing to gain from seeing this movie<br/><br/>4.7/10
Air America has a pretty interesting soundtrack of period music (during the Vietnam war era), which will keep most viewers watching. I hasten to add that the final Fred Astaire track really comes out of nowhere.<br/><br/>I wanted to like this movie. It treats the CIA&#39;s drug and gun-running in Laos during the vexed Vietnam conflict. President Nixon is shown on television insisting that there are no combat troops in Laos (&quot;No boots on the ground!&quot; Sound familiar?). The plot focuses on the role played by the CIA in supporting the production of heroin in exchange for cooperation of the Laotian military. Some attention is given to the nature of covert activities and the types of people (losers and mercenaries) who sign up for such missions.<br/><br/>The primary problem is that there is a real cacophony of tones and messages. Air America tries to be smart, but it comes off as rather lame. Not really incisive enough to count as a serious critique of the war or US policy, nor really funny enough to constitute comedy. Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. are both pretty mediocre in this production, and they are the best of the cast, which abounds in stereotypical caricatures of the usual suspects: CIA agents, senators, prostitutes, Asian military figures, among others.<br/><br/>It would be great for people to learn about the involvement of the Caustic Incompetence Agency in the drug trade during the US military engagement in Vietnam--especially since many veterans came home addicted to heroin and ended up social outcasts. But it would probably be better to read some books than to watch this middling effort.
The confusing screenplay, by John Eskow and Richard Rush, makes a few fumbling attempts to get a plot going (Downey crash-lands and has to be rescued by Gibson; later, their CIA bosses try to frame them for drug smuggling), but mainly the movie tries to get by on attitude, which is a mistake when Mel Gibson is its main perpetrator. [10 Aug 1990]
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