1986 - Rated PG-13 - 1 hr 57 min
Director: Sidney J Furie
Starring: Louis Gossett Jr, Jason Gedrick, David Suchet
I don't know why we own this movie. I'll chalk it up to Mike's nostalgia, since he claims it is "awesome." Thanks, 1986 Hollywood, for this gem of a film....
It's kinda like Top Gun for kids and teens. So no beach volleyball scene or, you know, any of the good parts. No Tom, no Val, and no dynamite soundtrack. And look at that... it came out in the same year.
Instead, this movie's pretty boring and about 80% of it takes place in airplanes. Jason Gedrick's hoping to get into the Air Force Academy but keeps getting rejected. His father, a veteran Air Force pilot, gets kidnapped by Arabs (from what country, who knows? Not important, I guess), tried, and sentenced to death. It's all a big mistake, Gedrick knows, but the government won't say his dad. One of those "needs of the many outweighing the needs of the few" scenarios. So he and Louis Gossett Jr. are gonna go save him. For reals. Thank God this kid's been practicing his flying.
**SPOILER ALERT** Obviously, they save him and everyone lives happily ever after. Gossett doesn't die, like you think he does. Gedrick gets into the Air Force Academy for his awesome rescue skills. Hooray.
And I was bored, the entire time. Ugh.
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