Where to Watch Iron Eagle
- ryzenkingNovember 6, 2025One of the first action movies I watched when I was younger.Ignoring the fact that teenagers broke into a military base,with no trouble at all. And the fact Doug was flying jets and not in the military..If you take it as just as a rescue mission action flick. and you were like 6 at the time. It was pretty good.
- mushu59November 11, 2024A criminally underrated film. Is it an artistic masterpiece? No, not even close, the dialogue is terrible, cinematography and editing leave something to be desired and the overarching plot is completely ridiculous, to the point it should be classed as a fantasy film. But, it's fun to watch, there are some pretty good stunts in the "snake" race at the beginning of the movie, and even the bad dialogue and plot do not detract, also the soundtrack is top tier. I have probably seen this movie well over 100 times and will continue to watch it every few months. The only issue I have with it is that they kill off the main character in the beginning of the second movie, we should have gotten at least one sequel with Doug Masters as an actual air force pilot. Also there are not enough good movies that have aerial dogfighting as major setpieces, while in this movie practically the entire third act is a series of dogfights, and even better they use Vipers, they refer to them as Falcons but I assume that is because the US airforce wasn't involved
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Iron Eagle was released on January 17, 1986.
Iron Eagle was directed by Sidney J. Furie.
Iron Eagle has a runtime of 1h 57m.
Iron Eagle was produced by Ron Samuels, Joe Wizan.
When Doug'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's father after bombing the MiG base.
The key characters in Iron Eagle are Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair (Louis Gossett Jr.), Doug Masters (Jason Gedrick), Minister of Defense Col. Akir Nakesh (David Suchet).
Iron Eagle is rated PG-13.
Iron Eagle is an Action, Thriller, War film.
Iron Eagle has an audience rating of 5.7 out of 10.
Iron Eagle had a budget of $18M.
Iron Eagle has made $24.2M at the box office.