Firebird 2015 A.D. (1981)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Doug McClure was Trampas on The Virginian. This was the highlight of his career. He played a reckless pretty boy. Well, what do you know. He is doing it here again. Except for the fact that this film has no foundation and is about as dull as a movie can be. It's a series of desert races that go nowhere, build no suspense, and when over, don't matter at all. Apparently, there is a gas shortage, but these guys are able to burn gas. When I saw Waterworld, I wondered what the end game was. At least they sort of had one. Nothing doing here.

I am not someone who usually puts in bad reviews unless something is so bad that a bad review is really needed, and this is one of those cases.Especially when it had so much potential to be a good movie, it literally had every possible chance to be an awesome post-apocalyptic Mad Max style movie, but it just failed all of that in every possible way that it is possible to fail in.Let me explain....So the story is that the US government has outlawed gasoline burning vehicles , and "Rebels" (Called Burners) are still driving gasoline powered cars in the desert, so the government has deployed a police force that uses gasoline powered motorcycles to chase hunt these Rebels.See what I mean, sounds like something with great potential, right?Well, lets go over what the movie actually is...First of all, it is categorised as a SCI-Fi Action movie....and it is not..period.Other than taking place in the "Future" of 2015, there's nothing remotely scifi about this movie. the whole movie takes place in a desert with 80s motorbikes chasing 70s / 80s cars, even the weapons used in the movie are all regular M16s and other standard weapons for the early 80s. Anyway, but then there's the actual storyline in the movie....the "Burners" seem to drive illegally all to deliver a carburetor....yeah seriously...but okay, fair enough in this set gasoline car parts might scarce and can have a significant value to the right buyer, so we will let this one go.But on top of this they also seem to bet each other to drive around in the patrolled desert where they are getting shot at by the "Special police force" deployed to hunt them down...all which seem to be just for fun...But then there's this "Special police force"....their police station is a tent, and for some reason there's one of them whos a native American guy who does all sorts of weird stuff almost like he is on drugs, and there's even one scene where one of them shoots at the other ones head while that person is approaching on a motorcycle ....all just for fun.....like picture two police officers shooting at each other with live rounds "Just for fun"?...Okay and then there's this "Love story" between the son of one of the Burners and some burner chick.yeah, it's all just one big mess...and it just feels like everything is fun and jokes to them, none of them seems to be serious about their what's going on.And then there's the acting, it's all most like none of the actors even understands their own roles or the story of the movie, it's kind of hard to describe if you haven't seen the movie. But every dialogue between the actors sounds scripted and they it's almost like they are being told what to do as they are being filmed, so you see a lot of scenes where they have a look in their face like they don't even know what the next scene will be, I am not even exaggerating on this.But even the action in the movie, are so poorly done and all looks so staged. There's one scene where the native American police officer guy; shoots at a crashed mustang with a grenade launcher, and the guy taking cover behind the car doesn't really seem to be bothered by the grenades exploding right next to him, on top of this the native American officer is standing upright and yelling in the complete open while being shot at being shot at by the guy hiding behind the car, all of this really just makes the whole scene feel like it's just a bunch of random scenes they cut and pasted together.And it's the same in other scenes where the they are trying to block the road and shooting at the cars trying to get by.All of which makes the action scenes really confusing to watch.Again, it's literally everything they had the chance to do right, they did wrong.Honestly, don't even bother watching this movie, it is not even entertaining or even so bad that it is "Fun to watch"...there's literally nothing going for this movie at all. it just leaves you with the feeling of just being annoyed that you even bothered to watch it in the first place.It really should never have been made.

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.

Mind you, it does sport some fine Alberta Badlands scenery. Still, I wonder why the creators of this film overlooked a shining opportunity for an approximation of wit. In the fascist America of 14 years hence, private use of petroleum is not allowed. Who enforces this? Why, the DVC, the Department of Vehicle Control, represented by the surly chief, a plainly psychotic lackey, the woman who's secretly sympathetic to the rebels and a couple of other nondescript guys. Did nobody think that instead of the DVC, it should be have been... the DMV?Ponder that, if you're ever bored enough to watch this.