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| Director: Sidney J. Furie
Actors: Louis Gossett Jr., Jason Gedrick, Tim Thomerson, Larry B. Scott, Caroline Lagerfelt
Studio: Sony Pictures
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Rating:  50 reviews
Sales Rank: 59711
Format: Color, Dolby, Original Recording Reissued, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 117 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0767864042
UPC: 043396062078
EAN: 9780767864046
ASIN: B000053V8K
Theatrical Release Date: January 17, 1986
Release Date: January 30, 2001
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Showing reviews 6-10 of 50
 Excellent 80s Tribute Film October 30, 2000
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
"Iron Eagle" is best described as your typical 1980s, feel-good, pro-American, rock and roll action movie. Required viewing material for those of us still on the 80s hype. While completely unrealistic, anyone who ever grew up in the Reagan-era has to love this film and its simple premise. "Iron Eagle" has everything the 80s fanatic could want: a soundtrack including Adrenalin (Road of The Gypsy), Eric Martin (Eyes of The World), Dio (Hide In The Rainbow), Twisted Sister (We're Not Gonna Take It), and Queen (One Vision); a heavy, pro-American slant; and how could we forget, actors like David Suchet and Louis Gossett. While not up to the same high-budget par as its contemporary, "Top Gun", this is still a great film. Your plot is simple: imaginary Mediterranean rouge state shoots down one of our pilots, and in return, two American rouge pilots steal F-16Bs and bomb the living daylights out of the enemy. It's a great movie to watch as a "I remember when" type of film, especially since "Iron Eagle" has all the undertones of the perpetual international crisis faced by the US during the time period.
80s teen flick + top gun = delicious cheese, thrilling action August 10, 2005
David Koski (San Jose, CA United States)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Iron Eagle is about a group of teenagers who need to save one of their fathers from the clutches of an evil unnamed country. Of course the US government is too weak to act, so they enlist the aid of Chappy, steal a few fighter planes, and take care of business.
The opening scene with the "snake run" is soooo 80s! A race to prove manhood between a motorcycle and an airplane. Through canyons! And the last guy who did it DIED!
The flying scenes are pretty well done and are at least as thrilling as those in Top Gun or other movies of the period. There are plenty of satisfying explosions, even from things that seem like they ought not explode.
Ready for some easy-on-the-brain entertainment? Give Iron Eagle a try!
 Great movie, horrible DVD February 22, 2008
E.H. Stevens
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I was only 12-years=old when I saw Iron Eagle with my dad, who passed away 4 years ago, and it's one of the finest memories I'll ever have. It was an exciting movie, and I still love it to this day even if it's unrealistic. For people who moan and groan about movies all the time for not being plausible, especially movie critics, I say "just grow up!" Movies are supposed to be about entertainment. Leave it to the movies based on true stories to be the so-called plausible ones.
The reason I gave this review a 1-star rating is not because of the movie itself, but because of the horrible DVD. It's the only one available as far as I know here in the U.S. It's in "full screen" format, which means edited for old televisions and not in its original widescreen format. That, of course, means a lot of the picture is cut off. The so-called 5.1 surround sound is just as bad, with little detectable sounds from separate audio channels. It's old, outdated, and is in serious need of a brand new DVD and hopefully BluRay version sometime soon.
This movie Rules February 23, 2000
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I don't know what those other movie veiwers are talking about wiht there low ratings. It may not be totally realsitic but is any movie. Come on if things have to be that real then don't bother even watching movies. This is a classic and one of Louis Goset JR. best. If you an't apreciate a movie like this then I feel sorry for you.
A waste of good time February 15, 1999
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Iron Eagle is a ludicrous film about the 18-year-old son of an air force colonel who, after his father is shot down and taken hostage in an unspecified Middle East country, takes matters into his own hands to save his dad. The country isn't named because in this film there is no difference between countries in the Middle East. They are all the same--highly aggressive and run by the military. From beginning to end, this film relies on Hollywood's most infamous and hackneyed formulas. One of these involves our hero Doug earning his manhood first by racing bullies and later by blowing lots of stuff up. Since this film is about flying, the race in which Doug socks it to his stock tormentors is upgraded from cars to planes. When Doug learns his father has been sentenced to die, he takes charge because he feels the adults are too inept and bureaucratic to see what is right. Doug thinks he knows better than our political leaders what should be done. He gets his friends, also children of air force personnel living on the base, and a crusty retired pilot named "Chappy" Sinclair (Louis Gossett, Jr.) to help him in his plan. Gossett is the only adult in the film who is not portrayed as an uncaring idiot. This is because Gossett is the noble sage who parcels out tidbits of pseudo-knowledge at all the right moments. Gossett does as good a job as possible wading through leaden dialogue like, "There's something about maniacs messing with good men that puts me off," and "The 'touch' is something inside you. . .down there where you keep you guts." Even Gossett cannot save this clunker, despite the fact that he is the best thing about the film, which is not saying much. When Doug puts his plan into action, we see a handful of scenes where Doug and his pals outwit military officers twice their age, in many cases their own parents, to gain access to computers and secret files. According to the plan, Doug will blow things up one by one until his father is released. He will then land, pick up his dad, and head home. And the implausibility gets worse. How is it possible for a single F-16 to lay siege to an entire country? It is possible because this film is going by the rule that states the bad guys will never do so much in their own defense that they will get the jump on the good guys. The bad guys do only enough to keep the action going for a suitable length of time. While Doug is blowing things up, the leader of the Middle East country says things like, "I want these pigs blown out of the sky," "I want these people destroyed," "That pilot is a dead man," and so on, again and again. One would think that a man this determined to win would never allow that plane to take off once he had it trapped on the ground. The film also employs the shopworn tradition that the bad guys always miss and the good guys always get direct hits. The leader of the country is also a pilot, what a surprise, so Doug has to face him in the air. However, there are more surprises in store. In a completely implausible attempt at a plot twist, a character even returns from the dead. And as we might expect, Doug receives no punishment because it could jeopardize national security. He even parlays his illegal actions into an appointment to the air force academy. This is an inane movie with a hero we cannot get involved with. When Doug is not expressing his righteous indignation over the air force's complacency in regard to his father's situation, he is a very dull character. This is a waste of time and film.
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