I still laugh when Chopper is utterly unconcerned at the first stabbing he receives in prison, merely inquiring mildly: “Bit early in the morning for kung fu, isn’t it?” There’s his dismissal of Keithy’s blood-splattered agony: “Whinge, whinge, fuckin’ whinge.” And then his lofty refusal to turn against his friend Jimmy for stabbing him – on grounds of loyalty: “If your mum stabbed you, you wouldn’t get upset …”Ĭhopper is released on 25 March in cinemas. Vietnam Network, and various English and Vietnamese music. Well, who cares? Chopper is a great film. Helicopter Wars: Vietnam Firefight is a film made for the National Geographic Channel. A few years back, Bana was hinting at a return to standup – but still nothing. But why hasn’t Bana, evidently a great comic, gone more into film comedy? Did he think that comedy was something he’d outgrown? Did he want to avoid Chopper/larrikin typecasting? Maybe – and maybe the roles haven’t been there for him. I don’t think anything he has done has matched the toxic thrills and the hideous laughs he got as the scary joker and monstrous non-charmer. Chopper was the dilithium crystal that powered the 20-year-plus career in movies and television that Eric Bana has gone on to have as a perfectly plausible lead in straight roles some are interesting, but not like Chopper. It’s a performance you could compare with Joe Pesci in GoodFellas, and actually appreciably better than Tom Hardy’s performance as the comparable British convict Charles Bronson in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Bronson from 2008, which surely took some inspiration from Chopper.Īs for Bana himself, I said at the time that if he could do an American accent, he was all set. In every scene – cell, courtroom, dodgy club, sordid flat – Bana holds your attention effortlessly, often getting big laughs. Stars: Jan-Michael Vincent, Alex Cord, Ernest Borgnine, Jean Bruce Scott. While Taylor undertook numerous missions and saved numerous lives during his service, it was one particularly daring and significant rescue that has. As part of a deal with an intelligence agency to look for his missing brother, a renegade pilot goes on missions with an advanced battle helicopter. WASHINGTON, DC: Captain Larry Taylor, an Army first lieutenant and Cobra helicopter pilot who served during the Vietnam War, is set to be honored with the Medal of Honor by President Joe Biden. Bana is simply superb, both as the clean-shaven moon-faced young sociopath we encounter first of all, and then as the chubbier, gold-toothed, moustachioed headbanger he turns into. Airwolf (19841986) TV-14 60 min Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi.
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