onysia
This is so bad it will be my contribution to the next bad movie party I go to. It is clear from the start that Steve Gutenburg was taking this role seriously.... the other principles were walking through their lines. I think they got a whiff of how much it stank early on and they were going through the motions for their paychecks. Sean Bean "acted" as usual but was spared sharing space on screen with any of the principles till the final scene where it was like an actor walking onto a high school stage that is how defined the contrast was. Some actors do not look good scruffy. Some actors should not bulk up for a part. Those two statements apply to "Police Academy" Steve. His scruffy look translates to bum and indigent and his bulking up makes him look potato lumpy not buff. Pair that with one of the worst scripted dialogues in Hollywood history and you have BAD movie. I can only guess that all of the principles really really needed the money for remodeling or something or their agents signed them before the script was written by the monkeys that must of typed it out. I would love to know the back story to this disaster.
Steven Blogg (bloggster)
It sounded so promising in the Rental Store, the premise sounded great and I couldnt wait to get home and watch it. It was Apalling the Diologue is Dreadful, The Action is Extremely badly Scripted and the Plot takes a nosedive from the beginning. Gutenberg puts in a pathetic performance, Sean Bean tries his best but with a script this bad there wasnt much he could do.This isnt even worth watching, even if you can get it for free (borrow it off a friend for instance) Dont as you will regret it and waste 90 Minuites of your life.0/10
RJBose
A friend picked up this film as a video rental, believing from the title and cover description that "Airborne" would be a moderate-to-bad exercise of the genre. This assumption was egregiously over generous; this movie is a pathetic, lamentable and completely, indeed, insultingly bad. Borrowing cliches from over a dozen previous movies, it apparently was shot over three days in various vacant spaces in Canada with a cast of about six. After the first ten minutes it ceased to be funny, as awfully bad movies sometimes are, and quickly devolved instead into a grotesque vanity piece for Steve Guttenburg, who after abandoning his Police Academy persona has attempted to recast himself as a tough-guy action hero. He succeeds only in looking as though he is portraying a Bruce Willis character at a bad Halloween costume party. From the overused and lame opening premise (an "elite" secret commando team, complete with code names and specializations typed in over their frozen images after the movie has commenced) to the painfully banal plot contrivances and thoroughly predictable sequences, the whole thing is a complete and utter waste of time, save perhaps as a catalogue of stolen characterizations, premises, and even dialogue from other films. Did Guttenberg actually believe anyone would buy him as a Willis clone? The production values and sets make this movie resemble a bad eighth grade media project more than the straight-to-video debacle it evidently was. Most laughable was the stock footage of tanks and other military apparatus ostensibly mobilizing to shut down the airport in the final climactic scene which were then nowhere in sight as Guttenberg/Willis struggles to save the world from a stolen secret biological warfare virus, stolen by (guess who?- the head of his own secret agency!- Maybe he should have tried to imitate Tom Cruise if he was stealing the plot of Mission Impossible). This movie is so bad it's not even worth the unintended laughs. Maybe it's time for Police Academy 15, Steve?
Jordan-10
This movie was terrible . Steve Guttenburg was okay , but the rest of the cast were terrible . This movie tries to be a high octane action film , but fails big time .Avoid like the plague .