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From: mike@bambi.UUCP (Michael Caplinger)
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Subject: IRON EAGLE (arrggghh!)
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Date: Sun, 9-Feb-86 19:37:32 EST
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This film makes RED DAWN look sensitive and plausible.  It continues the
recent trend of "red-bashing", this time against the Middle East.
All I can say is this:  the hero, whom I am sure we are supposed to root
for, is a dangerously crazed little psychopath who endangers himself
and his friends and should probably be locked up for life.  I can only
hope that this turkey flops miserably at the box office.  Not even the
flying footage is worth watching, and the soundtrack seems to have been
designed for 12-year-olds, as is I guess the whole mentality of the film,
which in a nutshell is this: "It's OK to use force in a cause that looks
good to you."

Lou Gossett must be hard up for parts these days -- it's a shame.

	Mike Caplinger
	mike@bellcore.arpa
	ihnp4!bambi!mike