Sky Bandits (1986)

Sky Bandits (1986). 1h 45m | PG

“GUNBUS is a fun little British WW1 film featuring a couple of imported American leads who through various rather unbelievable plot twists end up joining a British suicide squadron in their plans to bring down a massive German airship. It starts out as a rather cheesy western in which the central twosome dynamite about a billion banks before theyu0026#39;re suddenly in France and ready for action.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis rarely-seen film is rather inconsistent and seems to be suffering from choppy editing and huge budgetary constraints; the ending in particular is extraordinarily abrupt and just cuts to another random scene in an unappealing way. Saying that, I did get a kick out of GUNBUS, enjoying it in much the same way I enjoyed the similarly flawed BIGGLES made during the same era.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eScott McGinnis and Jeff Osterhage verge on the irritating rather than charismatic but thereu0026#39;s a solid British cast to back them up, including the reliable Miles Anderson and Rodney himself, Nicholas Lyndhurst. Ronald Lacey is underutilised as a friendly German character. The movie was directed by Zoran Perisic, the Yugoslavian special effects guy who worked on 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY and SUPERMAN, and I suspect that directing wasnu0026#39;t really his calling. Still, thereu0026#39;s plentiful action here, and the many aerial combat sequences, although cheesy, are good natured and most of all fun.”