The Rocketeer (1991)

5.8	Listal rating
6.3	IMDB rating

Directed by

Joe Johnston

Starring (View all)

Cliff

Jenny

Peevy

Neville Sinclair

Eddie Valentine

Howard Hughes

Fitch

Wooly

Written by (View all)

Dave Stevens

Danny Bilson

(story)

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4 years ago at Jun 17 19:16

coyoteblue

Good comic book movies are still the exception and this movie is one of those exceptions. I never read the comics so I don't know how literally faithful it is, but in spirit it's as faithful an adaption as you could have hoped. It's as much an homage to the time as it is the the pulp movies/fictions of the time. The art-deco mini movie poster is a classic, too.

All the actors do ... read more

A boring movie

2 years, 5 months ago at Jan 9 9:45

johanlefourbe

I don't get it... No disrespect but when you have Superman, Spider-man, Batman or the X-men why would you bother with the Rocketeer to make a comic-book adaptation ?!? Even though, nowadays, super-heros are immensely popular and big business in the box-office, they actually made some of those also in the 90's but they always flopped. Somehow, instead of focusing on the popular characters I mention... read more

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Description: In 1938, in Los Angeles, the pilot Cliff Secord crashes his plane after being hit in the air in a shoot-out between gangsters and FBI agents in a car chase; completely broken, his best friend and mechanics A. 'Peevy' Peabody tries to fix an old plane to raise some money in an exhibition show. However, Cliff finds a package hidden by o ... (more)

Release date : 21 June 1991
UPC: 717951003195

Action (14), Adventure (11), Fantasy (8), Superhero (8), Family (6), 1990s (5), Based On Comic Book (5), Superheroes (5), WWII (5), Nazi (5), 1930s (4), Gangster (4), 1991 (4), Steam Punk (3), Nazis (3), Based On Comic (3), Action Hero (3), Sci-fi (2), Biplane (2), Cliffhanger (2)

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" Here's another film I haven't seen in years, hell it's been probably close to 15 years since I seen it last. I have a bad feeling it doesn't hold up very well, as a teenager I remember I enjoyed the heck out of it though."

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"Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's the Rocketeer! Okay, maybe the ol' Rockster doesn't have a snazy saying like Superman. But still, as an old skool superhero, he still rocks. What I like best about this straight from the comicbooks movie is that it's just that; straight from the comicbooks. These days, comicbook properties are changed so much, that the comic version & the film version look almost like two different characters. This film seemed to go out of it's way to make th"

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"20.02.2013 "Jenny, prepare yourself for a shock: I'm the Rocketeer." "The Rocke-who?" I remember watching this on TV as a kid and loving it, so watching it again now made me very nostalgic. I guess that is a big reason why i liked it so much now as well. I thought it was a very fun and cheesy super hero film. Alan Arkin was great as the mentor/father figure character and Timothy Dalton was just fantastic as the slimy villain. That is what he does best. This movie was just pure, nostalgic enter"

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" One of the coolest comics efforts done so far. I love the pulp aspect and the Rocketeer character is fantastic. It's a damned shame that they didn't commit to a sequel. Absolutely nothing wrong with this one."

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