Remember those awful low budget WWII movies with Sherman tanks masquerading as German Panzers and German soldiers running around looking for a bullet to hit them. That's what the opening scenes of this movie brought to mind. Rebel African soldiers moving through the Chad countryside riding, wait for it... "Indian" Elephants, are attacked by a spindly rocket-firing helicopter and later a wing-mounted-machine-gun firing DC3. What? Nick Nolte as fearless reporter stands up on top of a 3-ton truck to get a better shot of being shot while Ed Harris in the guise of grizzled veteran mercenary inexplicably takes shelter underneath. Pure hogwash. Unfortunately they still do make them like they used to. Oh and Gene Hackman later sings and plays piano. Other highlights: Gun-toting, graffiti-writing masked mimes (I'm not making this up) That was all I could stand.
Review of Under Fire
