Box Office and Reception
Iron Eagle earned US$24,159,872 at the U.S. box office. Although the movie was not a major success at the cinema, it generated US$11 million in home video sales, enough to justify a sequel.
The film has received mostly negative reviews, with a 40% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called the film "a total waste of time", saying it "achieves a kind of perfection of awfulness that only earnest effort can produce." Variety magazine commented that the film has "breakneck action and some dandy dogfights", but the dialogue is simply laughable.
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