A handsome but preposterous action adventure, INTO THE SUN must have sprung from a desperate story conference. It's an unholy union of TOP GUN and THE HARD WAY. If originality won wars, then this screenplay would be classified 4-F.
The fun begins "somewhere over the Mediterranean Sea," where US fighter pilot Paul "Shotgun" Watkins (Michael Pare) and his macho flyboy friends have a close encounter of the opening-credits kind with some unfriendly Mirage warplanes of a never-to-be-named foreign power. Back at the base Watkins
is given an unexpected ground assignment: callow Hollywood superstar Tom Slade (Anthony Michael Hall) has been cast in an armed forces pictur...
Released:
1992
Rated:
R
Length:
100 mins