A vietnam vet goes for a cold war espionage mission in Firefox, an unstimulating thriller shot in an uninspiring russian setting and lasting for a good 50 forced minutes too long.
Category: War
#55 Red Dawn (1984)
Communist Soviet Union invades USA in an action movie that has much better premise than the actual execution and is interesting mostly as a Social science study of the era.
80s-o-meter: 94%
Total: 68%
#18 Casualties of War (1989)
Casualties of War deals with peer pressure and loyalty and is in its own category probably the hardest and most nauseating war movie to watch.
Sean Penn and Michael J. Fox are a surprise casts for the movie, but both come out with flying colors in their emotionally taxing performances making this one of the 80s Vietnam films that everyone should see.
80s-o-meter: 45%
Total: 87%
#14 Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Tom Cruise performs a convincing biographic role of Ron Kovic, an all-american boy who is disillusioned after getting paralysed in an unpopular war.
80s-o-meter: 15%
Total: 92%