Bat★21 (1988)
"Trapped behind enemy lines. A whole army after him... And only one man can save him."
ThumbScore
👍 70%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 82%
(RT: 82%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Jerry Reed as Col. George Walker
Clayton Rohner as Sgt. Harley Rumbaugh
Erich Anderson as Major Jake Scott
Joe Dorsey as Col. Douglass
Michael Ng as Vietnamese Man (as Rev. Michael Ng)
Is Bat★21 good?
Most people think so. 70% audience score, estimated from 227 TMDB ratings. Critics gave it 82%.
Overview
Lt. Col. Iceal "Ham" Hambleton is a weapons countermeasures expert and when his aircraft is shot over enemy territory the Air Force very much wants to get him back. Hambleton knows the area he's in is going to be carpet-bombed but a temporary shortage of helicopters causes a delay. Working with an Air Force reconnaissance pilot, Capt. Bartholomew Clark, he maps out an escape route. Wikipedia ↗
