Movies
May, 1983
As An L.A. Cop in a chopper on night patrol over the city, Roy Scheider is laconic and splendid, but the real star of Blue Thunder (Columbia) is a state-of-the-art experimental helicopter from which the movie takes its title. This secret weapon exists, we are warned, utilizing hardware "real and in use in the U.S. today." Hanging in the air on "whisper mode," virtually silent, it has listening devices that hear through walls, guns that fire 4000 rounds a minute, visual scanne...
