i really like the movie opening and when col. ted master realize on his fighter radar that four enemy aircraft be approach from about 10 oclock . the good news be that the movie do not mention at the very begin that the colonel and along with a wingman fighter who be a lieutenant and be try to do a freedom of navigation exercise along the eastern meditteranean sea and but go a little too past the restrict air space zone reserve for a rogue middle eastern nation a they accidentially fly past it . i also like all of the intercutting on the colonel fighter radar readout and computer display a the enemy aircraft aggressively pick the two american fighter pilot into an engagement for violate their airspace . that first dogfight immediately remind me of the famous fighter pilot movie and top gun . from the waxing of the enemy bandits to the enemy aircraft thirty milimeter round that strike the colonel jet engine and force the plane down and force him to eject and all of this remind u of one thing . dogfight fighter technique can keep you alive . but one false move can cause you to be shoot down . the only problem in the movie be the snake sequence scene . it be a little bit too long . yes and the movie opening be great when you see the conflict . which be the dogfight engagement . only when one boy tell doug master that his father be shoot down after the cessna plane land in the snake race and force u back to the time the conflict already start . i guess the snake sequence in the middle should be interrupt a little bit by col. master be drag in handcuff in the middle of the bilyad desert on his way to the detention center . while the music sequence for the snake continue . the film do not do it . if it be and the conflict detail would have be smoother at that point . still good otherwise . when word find out that col. ted master trial for high treason ( violate territorial air sovereignty ) be over and he be condemn to be hang on the gallows in three day and doug master decides to go into action . with the air force have futile attempt to save the man and doug decides to pull his friend and col. sinclair ( play by louis gossett jr. ) for a plan to rescue master . risk a high chance of face a court martial and spending more than a year in a military stockade and he go against air force policy and make a plan to rescue master without consent of the u. s. government . doug and his friend sneak into several classified area of the base to get plenty of stuff on the area where master be hold for the upcoming hanging and and the surround area around bilyad ( which turn out to be a fake middle eastern country for the movie ) . one plan include shoot off firecracker outside the air force darkroom area a a diversion to get classified photo and maintenance stuff on the fighter aircraft and fighter base and intelligence and and all of the other military stuff around bilyad . when all be say and do and and sinclair study all of the intelligence and he almost rebuff at that plan because doug be way too cocky . not until they get the two f 16 plane and try a dry run across a firing range that i realize what they be go to do overseas . i realize that doug fighter shooting and bomb dropping be not good until he hear rock music . i can remember when he drop one mach 82 bomb on a horizontal target and the bomb miss by 20 foot . i realize that doug be unusual . he like music when he fire the fighter ammunition . the last part of the conflict and the final dogfight action in iron eagle be good than top gun climax of the hostile dogfight sequence . i like the way the final conflict unfold and especially when doug master face off with an middle eastern ace fighter pilot who actually run the trial against ted master . short but sweet when doug take the enemy fighter out after a second try by a side winder missile . look like this bilyad colonel be akin to darth vader in star war . in the air and he can be very evil and because if you have see star war and darth vader be actually anakin skywalker and who be an ace pilot in space . unusual connotation for this but still work .