Coronado (2003) - this comedy action movie concerns a woman from Beverly Hills, and
a TV reporter, drawn into adventures in a fictional Central American country where rebels
launch a revolution using lots of military rotorcraft (supposedly provided by US government
aid). However, most, if not all, of the helicopter footage is just CGI candy. Bell V-22 Ospreys
fly through a waterfall, Boeing CH-47 Chinooks hover inside an open cavern, and three helicopters
(including a Huey gunship) are destroyed in the explosion of a sabotaged cargo ship. A climactic
assault on the despotic ruler's presidential palace (where John Rhys-Davies mugs through amusing
dialogue scenes), sees an Osprey use guns and rockets against enemy troops, while the heroine saves
the hero from death by firing squad. When the president flees his palace in a getaway Huey sabotaged
by rebels, this chopper spirals out of control, smashing through a wall, and demolishing an official
statue, before crashing to the ground.
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