Product Description
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Get ready to take off for action and adventure as all 22
one-hour episodes of Airwolf Season Two soar on to a spectacular
five-disc DVD set for the first time ever! Cruise the skies once
again with Airwolf, the cutting-edge, high-tech surveillance and
defense helicopter of the future, and Stringfellow Hawke
(Jan-Michael Vincent), its reclusive renegade pilot, as they
touch down on dangerous secret missions from Afghanistan to the
jungles of Central America. From drug runners to dambreakers to
demented businessmen, there's no one who can hide from the
Airwolf team's high-tech gadgetry and fighting power. Co-starring
Ernest Borgnine and Alex Cord, this suspenseful and daring
Emmy-nominated series from TV producer Donald P. Bellisario
(Magnum P.I., Quantum Leap) is sure to be a thrill-ride fans
won't want to leave!
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Jan-Michael Vincent stars in Airwolf as Stringfellow Hawke, who,
with trusty sidekick Dominic Santini (Ernest Borgnine), embarks
on perilous missions for a top secret agency known as The Firm,
which in turn allows him fairly free rein as he searches for his
long lost brother. Vincent, then 40 years old, was still a year
or two away from ruining his career with substance abuse
problems, but his work here is hardly of Emmy-winning caliber;
indeed, it's a lazy performance pretty much devoid of emotional
resonance. Borgnine, on the other hand, is always reliable, but
even the former O winner (in 1955, for Marty) can't overcome
Airwolf's procession of cardboard characters (especially the
villains) and credulity-challenging scripts, which find our
heroes traveling to a Laotian prison camp, battling nuclear
terrorists in California, rescuing the president of a South
American banana republic, investigating a religious cult, fending
off jungle cats kept on a Texas hunting ranch, and saving a
country singer from the nefarious machinations of her
manager-husband, among other silliness. In fairness,
creator-executive producer Donald Bellisario (who also brought us
Magnum, P.I., Quantum Leap, and JAG) and his team make an effort
to inject a human element; there's an episode in which Dominic is
arrested for murdering his faithless wife, and a couple that find
the guilt-ridden Hawke searching for his brother, Saint John
(pronounced "Sinjin"), who was presumed lost during the Vietnam
War when Stringfellow left him in the jungle. What's more,
considering its relatively ancient pedigree, technology-wise, the
effects work isn't bad, and there are some cool moments when the
Airwolf helicopter does what it does best (i.e., blow stuff up).
It's unlikely that anyone will fondly look back at Airwolf as
one of television's finest moments. That doesn't mean that this
five-disc set containing all 22 episodes from the series' second
season (1984-85) won't find an audience eager to re-live the
adventures of a super high-tech helicopter and the renegade
flyboy who pilots it (heck, even Knight Rider, featuring David
Hasselhoff and his talking car, has its adherents). Nonetheless,
low expectations are definitely in order for anyone who wasn't,
say, ten years old when the show was on the air.But overall, the
show lacks a strong vibe, a recognizable sense of style and pace
to draw viewers in and make believers out of us. Not terrible,
not terrific, Airwolf is just sort of there. --Sam Graham