Blue Thunder

Downtown L.A. + dusk + rotor wash. A haunted vet gets tapped to test Blue Thunder, a new combat-ready helicopter. Soon he suspects a sinister agenda behind the craft's development and the reasons for its deployment over the city. A propulsive, preposterous action movie now mostly notable as a Reagan-era fever dream.

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John Badham directed Blue Thunder in 1983. See John Badham's full filmography, where to start with John Badham, or where to go after you've seen everything by John Badham.

Blue Thunder was released in 1983 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 110 minutes.