a5c7b9f00b A young pilot plans a rescue mission when his father, an Air Force Colonel, is shot down over enemy territory and captured. 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. Don&#39;t bother to check for logic. There is none. But on the other hand, there are MANY really great movies that totally lack logic, so why bother?<br/><br/>I both like and dislike this film. I like it because the action sequences in the air are really great, you get to see a lot of dogfighting. I also like the F-16, which is a very cool plane.<br/><br/>But there are just too many goofs to make me really enjoy it. I guess it&#39;s not fair to wish for SOME sort of continuity,it is hard to make a really good fighter film - but I also think there should be some sense of reason.<br/><br/>And I have a question: do they fly from California to the Middle East in F-16s without air refueling? I&#39;d like to see that happening. 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 Once you get past the initial hurdles, Iron Eagle has the kind of sappy charm and a variety of overblown performance that shapes kids' movies. It is not plausible for a second, but neither, on the face of it, was Bambi. [22 Feb 1986, p.C7]
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