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- 50Baltimore SunStephen HunterBaltimore SunStephen HunterAnyway, the movie turns out to be hyperslick, quite well made in the technical sense (beautifully photographed and designed) and somewhat shallow, another exploration of that perennial and passionate teen theme, fitting in.
- 50The Seattle TimesJeff ShannonThe Seattle TimesJeff ShannonAs these things go, this is a painless and breezily amusing variation on the theme.
- The occasional action scenes are as appropriately tortuous as the tired teen-out-of-water plot is torturous. This is a kid-flick that’s speed-skating on one leg.
- 40The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenSlackly directed and thinly written, "Airborne," which opened yesterday, exists mainly for its scenes of the big race, in which two teams rocket down a series of winding hills, jumping over cars, scooting under trucks and bouncing down stairs. The camera work in this extended sequence has a nice gliding energy, but the participants are so thickly encased in helmets, goggles and padding that it is impossible to see how the two sides are doing as they elbow each other around the course's hairpin turns.
- 38Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonChicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonAirborne is a fairly shameless little picture, but at least it follows the First Rule of Cinema. It gives us something interesting to watch: the climactic hill race, with the largely unidentifiable racers zooming and hurdling one another on hairpin hillside curves...Unfortunately, Airborne also follows the First Rule of Bad Movies. Instead of telling a story, the filmmakers follow an outline (or, in this case, an in-line).
- High production values and a moderately appealing cast do nothing to ameliorate the tedium... The sappy concoction concludes with a genuinely impressive race sequence, but it’s not worth the wait.
- 20EmpireWilliam ThomasEmpireWilliam ThomasLike, so lame.
- 20TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineFortunately, the movie is so flat and boring that any children who might be tempted to ape its stunts will probably not sit still long enough to see them.
- 20Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenIf someone had spent half as much time thinking about the characters in Airborne as thinking about what filters to apply to the camera, then there might have been a semi-decent teen action movie here.