Fire Birds

Fire Birds is a 1990 American action-thriller film about elite Apache helicopter pilots who are tasked with destroying powerful armed drug cartels operating in South America.
 * Directed by David Green. Written by Paul F. Edwards, Nick Thiel and David Taylor.

The best just got better. (taglines)

Brad Little

 * Mr. Preston, this operation will be a failure if we all die!


 * Boy, you're going to be busier than a three-peckered goat.


 * Rules of engagement: 1. Whoever sees the other person first is the winner; 2. Whoever gets seen first is toast.


 * When we have mastered these tactics, we will use them to seek out and confront the forces of evil and kill them deader than hell!


 * [describing what he expects of his protégé] A 1st class all American hero with his heart and brain wired together cooking full tilt boogie for freedom and justice!


 * Make that damn thing go away, son!


 * [demonstrating Apache's capabilities to Preston] You could crash this thing at twenty G's and survive, but I am NOT going to prove it to you!


 * Once a helicopter battle has been engaged, someone is going to die. You boys do not have the speed to run away from a fight.

Jake Preston

 * [to Brad] Well. That's very big of you, Little.


 * I AM THE GREATEST!


 * Time to throw the dog a bone, Breaker.


 * [Jake is trying to rescue Guthrie from Stoller] You're not touching her, you filthy piece of shit!


 * Oops. You blew it.

Billie Le Guthrie

 * [commiserating with Jake after he fails a test] It's like sex, hardly anyone gets it right the first time.

Dialogue

 * Jake: Breaker, strawberry gum?
 * Breaker: No.
 * Jake: How about you, sir. Strawberry gum?
 * Brad: [angrily] No!
 * Jake: [dead pan] It's delicious?

Taglines

 * The best just got better.

Cast

 * Nicolas Cage - Jake Preston
 * Tommy Lee Jones - Brad Little
 * Sean Young - Billy Lee Guthrie
 * Bryan Kestner - Breaker
 * Bert Rhine - Eric Stoller
 * Dale Dye - A.K. McNeill
 * Mary Ellen Trainor - Janet Little
 * J.A. Preston - General Olcott
 * Peter Onorati - Rice
 * Gabriel Lopez - Johny Signaleer