Airwolf [1984]  Jan-Michael Vincent stars in Airwolf as
Stringfellow Hawke, who, with trusty sidekick Dominic Santini
(Ernest Borgnine), embarks on perilous missions for a top secret
agency known as The Firm, which in turn allows him fairly free
rein as he searches for his long lost brother. Vincent, then 40
years old, was still a year or two away from ruining his career
with substance abuse problems, but his work here is hardly of
Emmy-winning caliber; indeed, it's a lazy performance pretty
much devoid of emotional resonance. Borgnine, on the other hand,
is always reliable, but even the former Oscar winner (in 1955,
for Marty) can't overcome Airwolf's procession of cardboard
characters (especially the villains) and credulity-challenging
scripts, which find our heroes traveling to a Laotian prison
camp, battling nuclear terrorists in California, rescuing the
president of a South American banana republic, investigating a
religious cult, fending off jungle cats kept on a Texas hunting
ranch, and saving a countr