a5c7b9f00b When Doug&#39;s father, an Air Force Pilot, is shot down by MiGs belonging to a radical Middle Eastern state, no one seems able to get him out. Doug finds Chappy, an Air Force Colonel who is intrigued by the idea of sending in two fighters piloted by himself and Doug to rescue Doug&#39;s father after bombing the MiG base. Their only problems: Borrowing two fighters, getting them from California to the Mediteranean without anyone noticing, and Doug&#39;s inability to hit anything unless he has music playing. Then come the minor problems of the state&#39;s air defenses. A young pilot plans a rescue mission when his father, an Air Force Colonel, is shot down over enemy territory and captured. Now this is a movie you should have (seen). It is almost better than the classic made in the same year, but is known&#39;Top Gun&#39;. The eighties sure were years of good ol&#39; combat movies about a boy with a talent for F-16&#39;s and God-knows-how-many-fighter-jets, who goes on a hell of dangerous mission to save his father&#39;s life and survives - of course he does. And all of this can keep you seated until the last second of the movie. If that&#39;s what you think while reading this review, you know what I&#39;m talking about. If this is not what you think, you have been frozen in for at least fifty years…<br/><br/>My congratulations to the men and women who worked hard to provide us with such a masterpiece. Thanks, I really mean it!!! **** out of ***** Back in 1986 I was a sixteen year old boy, when I first saw this film, I thought back then that this movie was one of the coolest I&#39;ve ever seen. Just the other night at a friends house, my friend said &quot;how about a trip down old memory lane&quot;, he busted out an old dusty VHS tape and I could see it was the original Iron Eagle movie. He slapped it into his VCR and off we went. Now I am a 36 year old man, not the boy I was many years ago. As I watched the film, I could see flaws in detail, flaws in the special effects and a corny script and plot line. Now don&#39;t get me wrong, it&#39;s still a good film, if you are like stuck in the 80&#39;s! The only true thing I could get into with this film was the pretty good soundtrack. I am a big fan of the rock group Queen, they made parts of this film good enough to at least sit tight and watch. Good film back in the days, good film now, just a whole lot of corny! &quot;Thank you for your time&quot; Aaron Grace The vulgarity and jingoism of Iron Eagle prevent it from functioning evenbreezy entertainment. [17 Jan 1986, p.C10]
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