Bat★21

1988 PG-13 1h 45m

6.3 / 10 211

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6.3/10

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Lt. Col. Iceal "Ham" Hambleton is a weapons countermeasures expert and when his aircraft is shot over enemy territory the Air Force very much wants to get him back. Hambleton knows the area he's in is going to be carpet-bombed but a temporary shortage of helicopters causes a delay. Working with an Air Force reconnaissance pilot, Capt. Bartholomew Clark, he maps out an escape route.

Director Peter Markle

Writers

George Gordon William C. Anderson William C. Anderson

Stars

Gene Hackman Danny Glover Jerry Reed

Gene Hackman

Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton

Danny Glover

Capt. Bartholomew Clark

Vietnamese Man (as Rev. Michael Ng)

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Theodore Chan Woei-Shyong

EB-66 Officer (as Stuart Hagen)

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Jeffrey Baxter

Helicopter Gunner (as Jeff Baxter)

Action War Drama

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kevin2019 24 Jan 2024

10/10

"BAT*21" is above all an exceptionally well made and very worthwhile film based upon a remarkable true story. The action sequences have been brought to the screen with the deliberate intention of not glamourising the necessary depiction of violence (to do otherwise would have been a lethal miscalculation). This film is also able to depict Hambleton's rescue as being a far from easy proposition and...