Iron Eagle

SYNOPSIS

This is one of the better pre-Top Gun action adventures, although it hardly deserved the long-running video franchise it grew into. Jason Gedrick plays the teenage flier who goes on a secret mission to rescue his father, a hostage in an unnamed Arab country ruled by nasty David Suchet. Louis Gossett Jr, reprising his gruff but tender Oscar-winning turn from An Officer and a Gentleman, is the sympathetic serviceman who breaks the rules to help him by stealing a couple of F-16s and teaching him to fly. It's utter tosh, of course, but the flying sequences are quite good.