The Rocketeer - 1991 - 6/10

Part of the pulp derived films that flourished in the 1990’s (Dick Tracy to The Shadow to The Phantom). All fun and empty headed.
Cliff finds a jetpack prototype that can send him airborne.
It could also be used by combat troops, which draws interest of spies and sellouts.
This suffers from insufficient action, subdued colors, along with an awfully wholesome tone.
The Rocketeer came after Raiders Lost Ark, and faltered at that bar.
Later pulp adaptations were more tongue in cheek, not so here.
Well cast, this should appeal to fans of Jennifer Connelly.