A Great Big Hit When it Came Out, This Conspiracy/Action Movie is Remembered Fondly by Fans Who Viewed it in the Theatres in 1983. But Today, the Action is OK but Not That Great Considering. However, it was More Prophetic than Originally Planned.
The Blue Thunderous Machine is Perhaps a Cloning of Wireless and Warrantless Surveillance Technology and Drones. This Makes the Movie Haunting and Thought Provoking When Audiences Rediscovered it in Recent Years.
The Film Takes its Theme Almost to the Background in the Way it Focuses on the Aerial Action and the Sting of Big Brother is Relegated to "Whisper Mode". The Muted Message, Today, can be Heard Loud and Clear.
It's a Fun Film Nevertheless and Delivers its Thrills in an Over-the Top, Sometimes Reckless Abandon of Real Life Consequences. Roy Scheider and Malcolm McDowell are Good-Bad Guys and Their Characters are Just This Side of Stereotype.
The Film Holds Up Pretty Well and is Worth a Watch for What it Does Best, and Despite its Reluctance to Go Deep in the Weeds of the Troubling Scenario, the Movie Manages to be Quite Unsettling, Albeit in its Near Subliminal Story of What Was to Come and It Did Come in a Multitude of Ways. The Aforementioned Surveillance, Drones, and the Militarization of the Police Force.
The Blue Thunderous Machine is Perhaps a Cloning of Wireless and Warrantless Surveillance Technology and Drones. This Makes the Movie Haunting and Thought Provoking When Audiences Rediscovered it in Recent Years.
The Film Takes its Theme Almost to the Background in the Way it Focuses on the Aerial Action and the Sting of Big Brother is Relegated to "Whisper Mode". The Muted Message, Today, can be Heard Loud and Clear.
It's a Fun Film Nevertheless and Delivers its Thrills in an Over-the Top, Sometimes Reckless Abandon of Real Life Consequences. Roy Scheider and Malcolm McDowell are Good-Bad Guys and Their Characters are Just This Side of Stereotype.
The Film Holds Up Pretty Well and is Worth a Watch for What it Does Best, and Despite its Reluctance to Go Deep in the Weeds of the Troubling Scenario, the Movie Manages to be Quite Unsettling, Albeit in its Near Subliminal Story of What Was to Come and It Did Come in a Multitude of Ways. The Aforementioned Surveillance, Drones, and the Militarization of the Police Force.