A young pilot plans a rescue mission when his father, an Air Force Colonel, is shot down over enemy territory and captured. 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. Their only problems: Borrowing two fighters, getting them from California to the Mediteranean without anyone noticing, and Doug's inability to hit anything unless he has music playing. Then come the minor problems of the state's air defenses. i saw this movie yesterday and was appalled by how crappy it was. just one of the things that irked me was the legendary "Hades" bomb which was dropped on the base only produced a couple of feet of fire which guys in motorcycles could drive through. i was so pumped for that bomb to go off, but it didnt even land on anyone. bad movie all around ** spoiler alert **<br/><br/>This is a truly terrible film. It is the worst kind of saccharine, positive can-do, self-congratulatory, USA, USA improbable nonsense. The basic story is that a kid's father, who is a fighter pilot in the US air force, gets trapped in some generic Middle- Eastern country. His son and few other munch kins join forces with another colonel to steal two F-16 jets to save him. The adults are all trusting imbeciles, the Arab villains are stereotyped caricatures while the child actors are annoying, precocious dorks. <br/><br/>I said spoiler alert at the beginning but really, you know that there is only one way this is going to end up. Explosions, villains running around like the Keystone Kops trying to stop them with rockets made from toilet roll tubes, Father's saved = 1 all with no American casualties. Every target is made of planks of balsa wood but explodes in a napalm like fireball all to cheesy rock guitar music.<br/><br/>You would probably enjoy this film if you were about five-year's old but for everyone else it is a hopeless cause. Time to eject. Director Sidney J. Furie fills in the rest with breakneck action and some dandy dogfights. Much of the dialog is simply laughable.
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