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Jan-Michael Vincent and Ernest Borgnine star in the cult favourite,
Airwolf. The Emmy Award-winning series followed the
dangerous missions of the high-tech helicopter, Airwolf, and
it's renegade pilot, Stringfellow Hawke...
In
its early years, Airwolf was a reasonably edgy action-thriller
series. Granted,
it still gave in to cliché and dubious scripts, but
the mood was generally dark, and the main character, Stringfellow,
was one intense dude. This DVD release shows how the third
season adopted a more, dare I say it, “family-friendly”
attitude, with just a few too many cute kids sticking their
round little faces into proceedings.
The
main characters are still there: Jan-Michael Vincent as the
scowling Stringfellow Hawke, Ernest Borgnine as the jovial
Dominic Santini (he must have the patience of a Saint to endure
Hawke’s endless brooding) and Alex Cord as Archangel.
Continuing from her introduction in the second season, we
have Jean Bruce Scott as the fiery Caitlin O'Shannessy. Her
role in this season is usually minor, and a good thing
too as some of her tough-girl posturing verges on the embarrassing.
Whilst
the quality of the scripts varies between awful and tolerable,
the acting by the main cast usually helps to carry things
along, as do many of the highly impressive stunts and aerial
sequences. What
hamstrings each episode is the necessity of having to pit
Airwolf in a duel against another super weapon in the closing
act.
Of course, this was a trademark of the show, but the predictability
rapidly becomes
tiresome. Some episodes do try to break the mould, but, for
the most part, it is business as usual.
Of
course, no review of a season of Airwolf would be complete
without a mention of visual continuity. Yes, Airwolf having
weapons deployed in one shot and then not in the other...
then out again and then Hawke asks for weapons and we get
a close-up of them popping out and then in the next shot they’ve
gone again... Aaarrrggghhh!!!
However,
despite its deficiencies, the third season of Airwolf
is as enjoyable as any other. If, like me, you used to enjoy
this show when you were a kid, then add this release to your
collection.
Jeff
Watson
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