The IRON EAGLE series, like TOP GUN (1986) which inspired it, had always been pitched at the youth crowd. Now, an entire squadron of streetwise urchins soar to the rescue. If Louis B. Mayer had been this shameless, there would have been anti-Luftwaffe classes at BOYS TOWN.
The setup rewrites IRON EAGLE II (1988), in which Doug Masters, co-hero of the first in the series, was blown up over Soviet airspace. It turns out Masters (Jason Cadieux, replacing Jason Gedrick) survived to spend years in a gulag. Released, he resentfully resists joining his mentor, retired USAF
Gen. Chappy Sinclair (Lou Gossett Jr.), who rehabs youthful incorrigibles from a nearby correctio...
Released:
1996
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
96 mins