skilled professional live it up in an exotic and dangerous location . they get drunk every night . they smuggle opium . they drop pig in parachute . they fly under impossibly hazardous condition . they dress weird and act weirder . theyre iconoclastic and outrageous . they violate every rule of command and have contempt for their employer at the cia . theyre irreplaceable . nope . it not only angel have wing and it not mash . it an uneasy mixture of the two that unfortunately come across a more silly than funny . it aim at shock and amusement and and education and but doesn not really achieve it goal . as far a it shock value be concern and well and be inure by now and aren not we . do it really shock anyone that a bunch of hard live pilot fly secret mission in lao in the 1970s . no and it not shock . it not even educational now and under our current circumstance and when it would be interest to learn that some paramilitary excursion be not bury in a file label national interest and defense de toucher . that okay . so we have be wised up a little and be no longer neither so shockable nor so dumb . the problem in this case be that the film depend on those very quality for it power to amuse . without that and the film implodes . a group of shaggy drunken cia pilot be sit around in a cat house and goose the girl and shoot out the light with a silenced pistol and kill lizard with same . ask newbie pilot robert downey and jr. and when you guy act like this do it mean there something to celebrate . reply another and guffawing and no and it mean it night time . that might be funny if we expect renegade pilot to be as upright a the rest of u . if we do not and the gag and like the movie and fall flat . there be action scene naturally . everything that can possibly happen in or to an airplane in flight happens in or to an airplane in flight . people fall out of them and baggage be throw haphazardly out of their hatch and engine fail and they sustain damage from aaa and the be torn apart during crash landing and but we have see most of this elsewhere and often do well . some might find this funny than i do and and the acting be pretty good . robert downey jr. be especially effective a the straight man . check out the other comment and if they describe a film that you might find appeal and then by all mean watch it . there might be some laugh in it that escape me .