I love this movie so much

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Great Film overall

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Imagine Iron Eagle is your favorite crazy uncle. This movie is Iron Eagle's ex-wife's cousin's adopted red headed step child. Pretty bad.Have to watch it once. Look out for Skippy from Family Ties. The lesser Dillon brother was nominated for an award for this. At no point are we privy to the escape plan. Apparently the actors weren't either. Brings back memories of Golan Globus, but in a bad way.*Spoiler* You will see a concert T-shirt with The Boss. Once the jets realized it wasn't the North Koreans, wouldn't they have escorted the plane?

The RescueThe best thing about leading a rescue mission to North Korea is you can openly discus it on the Internet and they'll never know.However, the Internet - prohibited or otherwise - did not exist at the time this action movie was filmed.When their Navy SEAL fathers (James Cromwell, Timothy Carhart, Edward Albert) are imprisoned in North Korea for spying, Max (Marc Price), Shawn (Ned Vaughn), Adrian (Christine Harnos), Bobby (Ian Giatti) and J.J. (Kevin Dillon) adopt the Navy's abandoned rescue plan for themselves.Despite difficulties, the teens manage to reach their fathers. Then with a stolen military uniform and co-opted fireworks display, they implement a stunning jailbreak.While the heroes of this 1988 adventure are improbable, their actions are inspiring and their methods are amusing.But most touching of all is the fact that these teenagers didn't just sneak into North Korea to borrow their dad's car keys. Green Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.com

I've seen this film 40 plus times. I watch it more than once a year, because the action is rousing; the kids are convincing and courageous; the underlying theme (that family love combined with incredible good luck :) can win the day) is uplifting; and even the soundtrack is great. It's a little slow in the beginning (which is why I give it a 9 instead of 10) and is obviously dated (Kevin Dillon in 1988.) Because of the nature of human relationships between parents and their kids - and because of the current political climate and threats from North Korea - this film remains relevant today, in 2006. I'm hoping to see it soon on one of the cable movie channels.

Uh oh.I would put this movie in the same category as Iron Eagle and Red Dawn. No movie can be worse, honestly.When I read these comments I was very surprised that many of the people even said it was an OK movie!Oh, please, Hollywood, never ever make anything like this again.(Ok, I haven't seen Battlefield: Earth yet)