Steinesongo Too many fans seem to be blown away

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

ActuallyGlimmer The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

shakspryn I am surprised by the fairly low rating of this fine movie. Yes, the budget was clearly not very high, but the film is exciting and very well acted and directed. It doesn't have flashy special effects, but those have really become a colossal bore in current films.This film combines some good action with humor and a sense of comradeship among the amateur adventurers. One of the best aspects of this movie is that you feel like the guys are normal and rooted in the real world. There is a down-to-earth feeling about this whole movie,which makes the dangers the guys encounter much more vivid. If you like adventure combined with humor, give this one a try.

Wizard-8 You have to admit that HIGH RISK has a once in a lifetime cast. What other movie gathers together Ernest Borgnine, James Brolin, James Coburn, Anthony Quinn, Lindsay Wagner, Bruce Davison, and Cleavon Little? (Though Borgnine only briefly appears, and Coburn more or less has an extended cameo.) It's fun to see all these actors together, and there is additional merit to be found. The movie shoots on some picturesque Mexican locations, and there is some excitement in the action sequences. The script, however, is kind of a muddle - it's never really explained how the protagonists got the information about the drug lord, his compound, and his safe. That wasn't a real problem for me, but there is still a problem with the movie, and that is with the protagonists. For some reason, I found it hard to sympathize with these fellows - they came across as greedy and not that desperate for money. Also, they make some really stupid decisions along the way, stupid acts that even an amateur in real life wouldn't make. Recommended only when you can't find a better movie.

glow-17 I first watched the movie while, my father was posted in Panama CZ, and it was a really great and fun film. I had to work at it, but I did get a copy of it on VHS much later. Last year, 2007, I found the film being sold as dollar movie at Wal-Mart, I of course bought about four or five copies. You might still be able to find some out there, if I see anymore I'll probably buy additional copies. The actors are pretty good for what had to be a cheap film, and 'Adios Airlines' will always be in my vocabulary.The film starts out with a couple, four, out of work guys meeting an arms merchant. They buy some guns, chosen more for the looks on the screen than a logical evolution for an assault, but then these guys aren't really crooks they're just out of work guys trying to pay their mortgages. After flying down to S.America, Adios Airlines really makes the film special, they parachute in, make their approach to their target, hit the target and that's when everything goes wrong. They end up tangling with Revolutionaries come hill bandits, meet some gays in jay, end up cross dressing, meet a new love their life and end up in some cool shoot outs, more realistic for the amount of ammo expended for noting hit than anything else. In many ways, the film should be a classic but has been overlooked by most. Anthony Quinn and Ernest Borgnine along with James Brolin really make the movie. It's probably the movie the brought me to appreciate Anthony Quinn, when I was young and I still enjoy getting the movie out and watching, the plot hasn't been used since and was really original at the time.

sol (There are Spoilers) Fed up with working for a living and getting nothing for it, except bills and parking tickets, in these high inflationary times four buddies from L.A decide to help themselves and well as the War on Drugs. The four plan to travel down to the steaming jungles of South America and rip off one of the top cocaine dealers on that continent Serrano, James Coburn, thinking it would be a piece of a cake. It wasn't and thats what makes the movie worth watching.Hard to take yet very entertaining film that has these four soldiers of fortune, together with a little cute white poodle, lead by tough as nails Mr. Stone, James Brolin, get not only involved with the Serrano drug cartel but a gang of mountain bandits. The bandits are lead by by their bumbling and butterfingered leader Mariano, Anthony Quinn, who during the entire time on the screen is seen suffering, depending on the mood he's in, from either a very bad case of saddle sores or of poison ivy in his you know where.Breaking into Serrano's hacienda Stone and his three buddies Dan Rockney & Tony, Bruce Davidson Clevon Little & Chick Vennera, are shocked to find out that the wily Serrano changed the combination to his safe where he keeps his ill gotten gains, 5 million in US currency and about 20 kilo's of cocaine. Being the determined bunch that they are the four grab Serrano, with what seems like dozens of his bodyguards out to lunch, and force him to open it.On the run with the Serrano mob as well as the paid off police and military hot on their tails the four split up in the jungle with Rockney & Tony ending up getting captured by Serrano's boys. Later Stone and Dan, who escaped with the cash, get caught by this band of kooky bandits lead by the even kookier and inflamed butt hurting leader Mariano. All is not lost when jailed by the police Rockney and Tony get acquainted with another American languishing in the prison cell next to them Olivia, Lindsey Wagner. All soon escape with both Tony and Rockney losing their shirts, as well as their pants, in the process and make it to the prearranged spot, the jungle waterfall, where their to be picked up and rescued by a cargo plane.Back in the hill country Stone and Dan end up being worked over by Mariano's men who used their diet of beans hot tamales and high fiber food to their advantage, by gleefully and sadistically breaking wind in their faces, in torturing the two helpless and tied up men. It wasn't until the little dog, who was left behind at Serrano's hacienda, showed up and untied Stone by biting through his hand tied rope that they made their escape without the 5 million,that Mariano and his men took from them; only to come back and rip it back off from Mariano that very night.The film builds up to it's very happy ending with everyone involved in the big drug & money rip off, including the cute little dog, making it out alive from the jungle, and back to the good old USA. Those out to get and do them in both Serrano and Mariano as well as their bands of bandits drug pushers dealers and enforcers are left holding the bag to the very satisfying music, five years before Arnold Schwarzenegger used it in his action movie "Raw Deal", of "I can't get no Satisfaction".