Category Archives: Fighter Pilot

Firebird (2021)

From Amazon Prime:

Firebird follows a handsome, soulful young soldier who embarks on a clandestine sexual affair with a charismatic fighter pilot on a Soviet Air Force Base at the height of 1970’s Communist rule.

From Amazon Prime you can stream this 1 hour 47 minute film in spoken and subtitled English.

This true story takes place in 1977 Soviet occupied Estonia as well as in Moscow. Both the love story and the details of life under Russian (military) rule are interesting.

The Adam Project (2022)

From IMDB:

A time-traveling pilot teams up with his younger self and his late father to come to terms with his past while saving the future.

From Netflix you can stream this 1 hour 46 minute complete film.

Consider it a rarity to find a film that both adults and kids can enjoy.  About the only suggestive comment made is that a man’s suit jacket is so tight it looks like a condom made of tweed.

“Kid” material includes Star Wars light sabre dueling, exploding reactor parts, and fighter pilot maneuvers. “Adult” material includes fathering skills (or the lack thereof),  mother appreciation, and several maudlin episodes.

Ryan Reynolds during filming was 46 years old which is the perfect age to portray the older Adam. Mark Ruffalo is now 55 years old and also fits the part of Adam’s somewhat absent physicist father. Catherine Keener is the wicked witch Maya. Walker Scobell is sharp as the young Adam.

Don’t expect to understand the time travel scientific blather. Not a bad B+ expenditure of screen time.