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Blue Thunder
Action, Drama, Thriller
Los Angeles, California. Officer Murphy, a veteran Metropolitan Police helicopter pilot suffering from severe trauma due to his harsh experiences during the Vietnam War, and Lymangood, his resourceful new partner, are tasked with testing an advanced and heavily armed experimental chopper known as Blue Thunder.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy paranoid technology thrillers where airborne action, police procedure, and fears of state overreach collide.
- Tone
- tense, cerebral, bleak
- Payoff
- adrenaline, vindication
- Pacing
- brisk
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- surveillance, militarization, institutional corruption, trauma, individual conscience
- Setting
- early 1980s, sprawling American metropolis and urban airspace
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