Product Details

• Actors: Louis Gossett Jr., Rachel McLish, Paul Freeman, Horst Buchholz, Christopher Cazenove
• Directors: John Glen
• Writers: Kevin Elders, Sidney J. Furie
• Producers: Mark Moore, Michael R. Casey, Ron Samuels, Stanley Neufeld
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: New Line Home Video
• VHS Release Date: August 12, 1997
• Run Time: 98 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303697194
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #223,386 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Flying aces try to free a Peruvian village held hostage by a Latin American drug cartel.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars light fun, January 24, 2002

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This review is from: Iron Eagle 3: Aces [VHS] (VHS Tape)

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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Silly fun, March 1, 2008

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Beantown Jim (Florida) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Iron Eagle III - Aces (DVD)

The Iron Eagle series of films was a silly premise, contrived to get the elements of ground combat, air action, and a tacked on mystery plot all in one movie vehicle. Unless you were really into seeing aircraft go thru the motions, it never quite worked. The 3rd in the series, reviewed here, is a thin plot and sop to politics in Latin America. If you like "hardbody women"(as do I), and Rachel McLish in particular, then you may find this pretty hot(there are no nude scenes or even anything approaching that though). She was in great shape and was one of the true "prima donnas" of woman's bodybuilding. So, like her: buy it; else: don't bother..

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Iron Eagle lll, August 22, 2011

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This review is from: Iron Eagle III - Aces (DVD)

Glad I purchased it. Louis Gossett is one of my favorite actors and I think he can make any movie good.