NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Noutions Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Sam Panico In 2015 - remember when - the US government outlawed gasoline, only allowing the elite, the military and law enforcement to use it. No one is allowed to own or use a car and those who go against the law are called Burners, who are policed by the DVC (the Department of Vehicle Control).Red (Darren McGavin, Carl Kolchak himself) is a Burner who loves his 1980 Trans Am. His son, Cameron, has no interest in cars and continually gets upset at his father for breaking the law.Another Burner is working with a Senator to make civilian use of cars legal again, but as he's on his way, a DVC squad led by McBain (Doug McClure, SST: Death Flight, TV's The Virginian) intercepts him. Dolan, one of the crazier DVC members, blows the guy up with a grenade launcher. Shana, another team member, is upset about this and how the matter has been handled.Red keeps trying to get Cameron into cars, including having him watch a race between him and Indy, a Burner who races a Mustang. But Cameron is more into Indy's daughter Jill, who shows him how to drive a dune buggy. While the two older men race, they run afoul of the DVC.Cameron and Jill have better plans - they go to a barn to have sex. Of course, the DVC attack them, kicking Cameron's wimpy ass and stealing Jill. It's up to the two Burners to save her.Shana helps them out and Cameron and Jill use Red's Firebird to drive the Senator to the meeting while Red gets to know Shana better.Is it a coincidence that this Canadian movie - and the Canadian band Rush in the song "Red Barchetta" - both created a world where racing cars were illegal?This movie never gets as good as the poster. Or as what it should be about. That said, Darren McGavin does this material a favor and seems like he's having fun. It's an interesting concept and I wish it had been better, but there you go. As Orange Goblin says, "Some you win. Some you lose."

rsmith0506 This movie is very underrated and is quite frankly, one of the most interesting Sci-fi films out there. It brings something new and original to the table and doesn't have all the clichés that other films that take place in the future have. It has cars, guns, explosions, and Darren Mcgavin. This might actually be the best 1980s film I've ever seen, and probably the best film on the worst list. Firebird 2015 has a lot of decent actors, a simple but creative storyline, and freaking' cars! This is a movie that should definitely be watched at least once. I think that the soundtrack id pretty awesome as well. The song during the racing scene and the climax was beyond epic in every way known to man. So was the song that played at the beginning of the movie.

Xoinx I love Darren McGavin, but I couldn't make it past the first twenty minutes of this film--and that included a lot of fast-forwarding past the tedious driving scenes. Boring premise, cheesy dialog, and pacing that made me rather watch my clock's hour hand move. And come on--if the hero is going to restore some classic automobile, why would he ever waste his time and effort on a crappy Firebird?! I literally threw away the videotape when I was done. Lucky for me that it was a gift from a friend (who also saw no reason to hang on to it). If you're looking for a silly high-speed movie, watch Smokey and the Bandit or any Steve McQueen movie. There's no reason to waste time with this drek.

Woodyanders A severe gas shortage in the near future forces the government to ban the use of automobiles altogether and make the act of driving one a punishable capitol offense. However, a feisty pocket of rebellious gear-jamming metalhead race car enthusiasts called "burners" obstinately refuse to knuckle under Uncle Sam's oppressive reign, hording what little precious gas is left and happily tearin' their souped-up cars across the desolate desert terrain. Crusty ace driver Red (the always exuberant Darren McGavin, carrying on with greater flair and verve than the sub-par material deserves) and rascally fellow old-timer Indie (the solid George Touliatos) are two such guys, whooping it up as they constantly elude getting nabbed by a band of hard-nosed police officers who are very eager to nail their annoyingly evasive hides.While the premise -- basically a science fiction version of a Burt Reynolds-style good ol' boy outrunning the pigs car chase romp -- has promise, it's fatally ruined by David M. Robertson's limp'n'lifeless (non)direction and a paltry, insufficiently thought-out bare-bones script. Moreover, the futuristic setting is depicted with a critical lack of conviction: there are no special effects to speak of, the cars look plain and antiquated, and the spartan costume designs are simply pathetic. Worse yet, the fuzzball baddies led by a sleepwalking Doug McClure are hopelessly colorless and nonthreatening; only a murderously crazed Native American nutcase trooper (outrageously overplayed by Alex Diakun) radiates any necessary sense of genuine menace. The redneck protagonists are equally insipid and unprepossessing; the picture's already slack pace screeches to a dead halt during the excruciatingly blah romantic courtship scenes between Red's wimpy estranged son Cameron (the gratingly whiny Robert Charles Wisden) and Indie's fiery foxy daughter Jill (vivaciously essayed by cute brunette hottie Mary Beth Rubens). But the movie's grossest, most egregious and unforgivable blunders have got to be the copious, but poorly staged and thus unexciting car race sequences and a gruelingly tedious surplus of hideously banal dialogue (sample line: "Keep your pedal down and your sunny side up"). So, despite some good acting and nice photography, this worthless rusty clunker overall sadly remains in teeth-gnashing neutral from the dreary start right on down to the spiritless finish.