Iron Eagle | | Cast : | Louis Gossett Jr., Jason Gedrick | | Director : | Sidney J. Furie | | Studio : | Columbia/Tristar Studios | | Format : | Color, Full Screen, Dolby, Widescreen | | Released Date : | January 17, 1986 | | DVD Released Date : | June 01, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed), English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), Thai (Subtitled), Chinese (Subtitled), Korean (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 10, 2005 | | Summary | 80s teen flick + top gun = delicious cheese, thrilling action | Content
 | 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! |
| Rating | | | Date | March 21, 2005 | | Summary | Still fun after all these years | Content
| Three Iron Eagle movies were made. This is by far the best. Often true of any series of movies, the first is so good it inspires sequels. I saw this movie during its first release. It was great then and it is still fun today. Surprisingly the aircraft are still used today and so it seems timely even now when you consider what is happening in Iraq. Filmed during Ronal Reagan's administration it is interesting how this could apply even today.
A high school graduate finds that his father has been shot down over a Middle Eastern country and is being held hostage. He has three days to rescue him before he will be hanged. He enlists the aid of his fellow flying club friends and a retired Air Force Colonel to concoct a plan to fly over and rescue his father. Good acting, great flying sequences, and excellent music make this worth catching. I love the soundtrack. Good quality DVD with little in the way of extras. Still worth adding to your collection of family action movies. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 17, 2004 | | Summary | Just Plain Silly | Content
| Ahh, "Iron Eagle". A classic of the 1980's Golan-Globus production mill. With the current spate of historic/"current" military movies, it's sometimes good to see how Hollywood's come in trying to get the details right. One can't do much better than using this flick as a baseline. In case you aren't already familiar with this gem, Louis Gosset Jr. playing a reserve Air Force Colonel, and a teenage kid fly a mission inside an unnamed Arab country -OK I'll name it: Libya- to rescue the kid's dad. Pop gets shot-down when he's intercepted in international waters, but the US refuses to do anything more than diplomatic pressure.
The kid and Lou Gosset meet up when the kid's challenged to race the local bully with his PLANE while the bully's using his dirt bike. Suffice it to say he wins and impresses his babe; he doesn't get his slot at the USAF Academy, though. You gotta take the bad with good I guess. When the words on Dad get back to the family, this kid uses his base "network" to get access to imagery, enemy air defense data, and two F16s carrying a B52's worth of ordinance. All of this being done by his friends exploiting the dim bulbs who are their parents, no less. (If only strike planning was this easy.) Of course, the kid has flown training missions with his dad, and has a boatload of simulator time, so he's a natural to fly the mission. He convinces Gosset to go along with him, and his two-ship is on the way. The flying scenes are nothing spectacular, with obviously Israeli F16s playing the good guys, and Kfirs (modified Mirages) acting as MiGs. Cockpit scenes are completely the imagination of the set designer; I'm guessing he never was anywhere near a real aircraft. These are especially dated now as many computer flight sims are pretty darn accurate in cockpit, flight, and combat models. Anyway, lots of explosions on the way in, Lou gets hit and aborts and our hero must press on alone-go figure. He manages to talk with the evil dictator directly and get his dad on the runway for him to land (!) and pick him up. More silliness ensues as he launches weapons on the ground, taxi's out and takesoff. He kills the bad guy and heads home to find Lou punched out and was rescued. Rather than the prison sentence for espionage, and theft of government property that Lou, the kid, his pals and the idiots they exploited on base should've got, he gets his slot at the Air Force Academy. The end.
Overall, I guess Lou's performance was fairly good, but everyone else performed at the grade-B level this flick is. Note especially a very young Shawnee Smith as one of the kid's buds. Worth seeing for laughs, and as a film version of a kid's pilot fantasy.
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| Rating | | | Date | May 07, 2004 | | Summary | BEST DARN MOVIE EVER MADE, I LOVE CHAPPY | Content
| Where to begin, when I saw this movie for the first time I just feel in love with Chappy. I have yet to see a movie that even comes close to the quality that this movie embodies. If Chappy were a real person I would marry him and have a life of action and romance in his jet, going really fast all over the world and blowing stuff up. I am not sure if Chappy should be hanging out with little boy though, that could be bad. You know what they say "16 will get you 20". You just have to watch this film, you too will be swept away by the passion that Chappy exudes. If I had a chance to save my daddy from the bad guys I would want Chappy by my side, if not sitting on his lap in the cockpit of his jet. |
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