Bird on a Wire is a lame excuse for a fun action-comedy. Movie star Mel Gibson stars as the hero, along with Goldie Hawn as his girlfriend. The main stars themselves are giving lowsy performances, and the overall direction is of poor quality.
I could take any other action-comedy (Rush Hour for example) over this simple snooze-fest that really isn’t even that fun. Gibson is Rick Jarmin, who was once engaged to Marianne (Hawn), but is now under the witness protection program when he helped an FBI agent capture two drug dealers. The dealers have now been released from prison. One day, Jarmin runs into Marianne, but the dealers arrive suddenly with shotguns blazing. It’s a big chase across the United States with Jarmin running into some old friends and dragging a winy Marianne along. It’s revealed that Jarmin’s new contact is in cahoots with the dealers, prompting Jarmin and Marianne to run, hide and fight.
Directed by John Badham, Bird on a Wire is what is meant to be a fun romantic action-comedy. In reality, its lowsy, and mostly unenjoyable. No, I did not have much fun. Gibson is a movie superstar, but in this pic his performance is lame. Hawn spends most of the movie screaming, yelling and running.
The end action fight sequence, in a zoo converted to a jungle, is overlong and overly cartoonish.
The biggest positive aspect of this movie that I can give it props for is its camerawork. The camera stays in focus the entire time on what’s going on, so we can’t lose track of the dumb action that’s going on.
I never had that much anticipation for Bird on a Wire, but I thought ‘oh well’ and let it play out on the TV screen before me. The results were a little worse than I had anticipated. As a matter of fact, this movie wasted my time.
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