The Rocketeer (1991)

Wow! Such a good movie.

Simply A Masterpiece

Just perfect...

Fresh and Exciting

The Rocketeer is an amazing action packed superhero adventure and as amazing as Indiana Jones. It's about a man named Cliff who started out as a racing pilot and then becomes a superhero when he finds a rocket which was stolen from a factory by a gang of crooks led by Nazi agent named Neville Sinclair. It also has a really good love story in it and like in all superhero movies the good guy always gets the girl. In the end of this film Cliff aka the Rockteer saves the world from the Nazi's and gets the woman of his dreams Jenny Blake. This film was worth watching and this came out the year I was born just like Terminator 2 and Beauty and the Beast. The Rocketeer also reminds me of Iron Man cause the Rocketeer and Iron Man both wear iron helmets and use rockets to fly. Amazing and thrilling here. 10 out of 10.

I've always had a knacks for the pulp heroes/comics like Doc Savage, The Phantom, Agent Carter, MacGyver, Doctor Who, you name it. To me it was just how colorful they were in content and each of the heroes always represented the possibility of becoming something more and that anything is possible.This film is another one of my favorite films of all time and it's another childhood gem of mine, I've seen this when I was about 10, it blew me away then and it still does now. In fact this film was the first time I ever really came across pulp adventure/hero subgenere.The production value is great, it's all practical there is no CGI bull crap. I really love how they captured the late 1930's America making this film also kinda a period piece. The 1930's are a great setting for the pulp adventures as it was a time when the world was at war but it was also the rise for new ideas and innovations. The music by James Horner is fantastic, this film has one of my favorite theme songs of all time which of course is the Rocketeer theme, it fits so well as it has an adventurous tune to it.I really like the story which is a stretch but that's what I love about it and it's true to the pulps most of those stories always had colorful simple outlandish plots. This plot line could of been an episode for the TV Show "Agent Carter".I really like the characters, Timmaty Dalton one of my favorite actors is solid as the antagonist Neville Sinclair whom is basically an evil Errol Flynn that is really a Nazi spy. I really love that concept which I think is creative idea an enemy spy hiding in plain sight by being an celebrity. Yeah it's kinda a stretch from the odds it takes anyone to even reach celeb status in their acting careers. But that is part of the fun and whose to say it's might not be possible. Jennifer Conolly one of my favorite actresses is great as Jenny, I remember having a crush on her when I was a kid. She is just so fraking hot and beautiful with the persona to boot. I really liked seeing back and forth between both Cliff and her, I like the fact these are two people that are in a relationship which to me makes the romance all the more interesting. Despite being opposites you can see both are right for each other just like the after burners on the rocket pack both are hot enough for one another to fire up and fly. But they do have two things in common as both are people struggling to make their dreams come true and support each other personally but also in dire circumstances.Bill Cambell whom is an underrated actor is great as Clifford Secord/The Rocketeer and this is my favorite role from him. He's an all American guy whom is idealistic and he is an underdog as he is constantly struggling to make his dreams in aviation come true as well as things with his significant other work out. That's why we like him and we're on his side because he's a guy we can easily relate to, because that's something well all do everyday. The action is solid the sequences with the rocket are awesome, the cinematography and effects really capture the illusion of flight perfectly I was practically moving at my seat, just seeing that rocket in action I wanted one. Though it's true there is an inconsistence or two, like where the heck the fuel gage is for the rocket, isn't it important to know that if you want to stay up in the air, let alone not fall. Also why is it his pants aren't on fire when the after burners are on, are they made of some fireproof fiber? But I think that was probably intentional and what made it true to the pulp adventure stories, where they were always more concerned with story and the fun of it and left logic on the shelf.It's true that Clifford isn't too smooth with the rocket flight but that makes the action a bit more realistic if you can believe that. When you think about it in physics/aerodynamics logic it would be pretty darn hard to control.I also really like that there is a bit of a parallel contrast between both Cliff and Nevelle Sinclair. Nevelle Sinclair is by his nature a counterfeit person he is an actor that plays heroes but really isn't one. When it comes to being nice and charm you can easily see in his face it's not really in his nature to be nice at all and when he put it on it seems like he's trying a bit too hard. Also the guy a bit narcissistic as he is concerned about looks, in one scene we see him checking if there's something between his teeth.Cliff is a true hero because he is truthful about himself and his own ideals. Yeah, he doesn't have all the breaks as Nevelle has but he's not asking for them. And throughout the film most of the time he gets dirty and has kicks and scrapes but he still looks good much as Lara Croft does in the Tomb Raider games. And he does what any hero should to which is his job.The only bad thing about the film is that Cliff/The Rocketeer doesn't get to kick enough ass. It would of been cool seeing in the shootout scene him taking a machine gun or even using the hand gun and flying around shooting at Nazis. But then again Cliff isn't a trained fighter, so oh well.The Rocketeer flies high.Rating: 4 stars

To date, there have been five "films" in the 'Scary Movie' franchise and yet only one 'The Rocketeer'. This may not be the worst of mankind's sins, but it's surely in the top-five.Lovingly made by the underrated Joe Johnston and featuring one of the late James Horner's best scores, 'The Rocketeer' really is gee-whiz fun in the absolute best sense of the word.As we await yet another reboot of comic book A-listers like Batman and Spider-Man, I should think there's room at the table for a new adventure featuring this two-fisted retro hero. And when/if they finally do, the bar will be awfully, awfully high.

When it first came out, I remember enjoying the first 30 minutes of this movie, then finding it a bit slow. This time around, I found myself appreciating the tribute aspects a bit more and enjoyed it in its entirety. You'll like this movie a lot more if you know about the era and the real life counterparts of the characters that are referenced and portrayed. Without that knowledge, the movie might appear far more naive than it actually is. The acting is generally spot on for the tribute tone of the movie and both the leads are outrageously good-looking people. If memory serves I developed a slight crush on Ms. Connelly after my original viewing of this movie. I'm sure I wasn't alone. I'm not sure it didn't happen this time. This was filmed long before she joined the Hollywood cult of the anorexic.The FX are nicely done and the science is perfectly out of whack considering the genre that the film mimics. All in all, I appreciate this movie and its honoring the past without becoming a schmaltz-fest. It's an action movie done in a thoughtful manner. I Like It.