Notable movies for the week of June 8, 1990
Back to the Future Part III (PG)
Director Robert Zemeckis and executive producer Steven Spielberg
must have been exhausted by all the hurtling back and forth along the
space-time continuum that Michael J. Fox did in Back to the Future
Part II. In Part III, they simply plop down Marty McFly (Fox) and Doc
Brown (Christopher Lloyd) in the Old West and leave them there. This
last entry in the series is also the first dud. It plays like a campy
Western episode from a '60s sitcom, and the time-travel logic seems
shakier than ever. D+
Fire Birds (PG-13)
An elite crew of Army helicopter pilots wages war against a
Central American drug cartel in this third-rate knockoff of Top
Gun and Blue Thunder. As the hotdogging hero, Nicolas Cage wraps his
grousy monotone around lines like ''They killed our people and they
killed our friends! Their drugs kill Americans every day!'' The
climactic air battle is about as exciting as something you'd pop a
quarter in a machine for. D
