Iron Eagle III - Aces

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Summary: light fun
Review: Chappy Sinclair (Louis Gosset, Jr.) returns in "Aces: Iron Eagle III". Leaving the hi-tech F-16's of the first 2 flicks behind, Chappy spends his time flying restored WWII fighters in air shows along with wartime veterans of the Luftwaffe (Horst Buckholz), the RAF (Christopher Cazenove) and the Japanese Air Force (Sonny Chiba). He also works with at risk teens nearby a local USAF base. When one of Chappy's friends is shot down and killed, the retired ace realizes that there's a conspiracy linking a drug cartel south of the border and the corrupt officers running the nearby air force base. The cartel is run by an ex-Nazi air ace (Paul Freeman), and essentially occupies a picturesque central-American village and its inhabitants. Gathering the "aces" together, and arming their museum-piece planes with real weapons, Chappy and gang head south where they make short work of the drug cartel's private air force, destroy their ground base and save the town. It's innocuous fun - less Top Gun than an overlong episode of the "A-Team" - though not as much fun as the first flick. The flight scenes are so-so (real aviation fans will quickly realize that Horst Bukholz's german plane gets very little screen time because it's obviously a Mustang; they could have just used a dressed-up T-6, but it would look too closely like the one that's supposed to be Sonny Chiba's
A-6M), but this movie doesn't come out on cable any more so I guess it's worth a rental.

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Summary: Bad movie, good ideas, WATCH THE ENDING!
Review: Clearly the 1992 semi-serious B-movie, Iron Eagle III, while not a great movie, has some great ideas in it--at the end of the film, they show ground troops laser marking enemy targets for prop-driven attack aircraft to fire laser-guided rockets and hit these targets even though friendly civilians were nearby! Pretty amazing for a film in 1992 realizing Close Air Support (CAS) requires slower flying aircraft and to anticipate laser guided rockets! The U.S. Army is today, in 2002 fielding low-cost laser-guided rockets exactly like shown in this movie!

Next, when you overlook the script and enjoy the actual footage of WWII aircraft flying, a P-38 Lightning, P-51 Mustang, T-6 Texan and a Spitfire you'll realize that we have lost a capability with today's fast jets to provide CAS for our ground troops to hold ground, encircle and defeat enemies who may be hiding.

The last aspect viewers may not realize is that the so-called enemy German jet that flies in the final scene is actually Burt Rutan's ARES "mudfighter" an actual experimental attack jet designed to do CAS for the Army with a 25mm gatling cannon---exactly the kind of fast when it needs to be, yet-agile-enough to-fly-slow jet that we should have in the U.S. Army firing the laser guided 2.75 inch rockets shot by the good guys in the film!

Watch this movie for the raw aicraft flying footage and an excellent depiction of laser-guided rocket air/ground interface.

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Summary: Best of the Lot
Review: Face it, the Iron Eagle movies were B-quality movies, but IE3 was the best of the lot. Any movie that features World War II fighters is sure to attract my interest. The plot of IE3, like the other IE movies, is quite shallow, and sometimes cliche. That still doesn't take anything away from the fine aerial battles between propeller planes and jets. Some folks have found it impossible that the former could take on the latter, but it has happened in real life.

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Summary: Awesome movie
Review: i loved this movie. it is absolutly jaw droping to see WWII era fighters go up agasint the modern jets of today. just a few minor detials that got me was how the main bad guy's plane. ws refered to as an "Me262 'the plane that was going to win the war for germany'" when in fact it was nothing close to the 262. other then that i foudn this movie very entertaining and deffenitly watch/buyable. i got it on VHS to wathc again and again

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Summary: Awful
Review: This film is spectacularly bad.

A great effort should be made to gather each copy of the film and burn it in an incinerator.

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Summary: I am Chappy
Review: 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.