When Heroes Fly

When Heroes Fly - Official Trailer
Menemsha Films
It could have been a really good movie, but they packed full of 'dramatic' moments that drug it out interminably. Not that there weren't some valid issues, but they keep covering the same ground over and over again. Yes, I understand that TV series are designed to be consumed one episode a week and they need to refresh people's memories about the all the issues currently at play, but they could have just dropped some hints instead of having a full replay every time.

Four Israeli soldiers see combat in Lebanon where their leader gets killed shortly before they are sent home. Himmler and Dubi adapt to civilian life, Aviv and Benda don't. Benda becomes a hippy, traveling the world and getting hooked on drugs. He eventually ends up in Bogota where he meets a nice girl and straightens out his life. Aviv, suffering from PTSD, rejects his girlfriend, Yaeli. She goes to Colombia, gets in a car wreck in the mountains and disappears. After two weeks of searching she is declared dead. Nine years later Benda spots a photo of her in the local paper and the four guys get together to find her. Seems she was rescued after the wreck by a cult run by another Israeli (Elisha) who has discovered a powerful hallucinogen. Eventually, word of this drug got out and an evil Drug Lord [tm] comes in and forces the cult to increase production.

Our brave band finds out about the cult and Benda goes to visit one of his old contacts in the drug business. Coincidentally, two thugs from a completely different organization show up and there is a fire fight wherein a couple of people are killed. Foolish Dubi calls the police to report the incident and our four guys are all arrested.

Meanwhile back in Israel, there have been a few suicides, all connected by a strange drug and recent trips to Colombia. Tough policewoman Noga is sent to Colombia to investigate. Her minion back in Israel discovers evidence on a laptop confiscated from a guy in the Israeli embassy in Colombia that the drug lord who has taken over the cult is also responsible for the death of Noga's husband and child who were killed by a bomb attached to her car, so she is now super motivated to get this criminal.

Now we have the climax where our band of brothers and the police are independently converging on the hippy commune and the drug lab. The drug lord's minions are out patrolling the area so we get a semi-realistic firefight, but after that the whole thing falls apart into a dramatic mess. Never fear, the good guys and girls all live happily ever after. Except Himmler, who's dying of cancer. Funny how jews would give one of their friends a Nazi nickname. I expect it was because of his harsh manner.

Really, not a bad show.

Bare bones Wikipedia article.