5.4 | / 10 |
Users | 3.5 | |
Reviewer | 3.0 | |
Overall | 3.0 |
Colonel Charles Chappy Sinclair teams with three retired maverick fighter jocks from England, Germany and Japan as they fly souped-up World War II airplanes to combat a ruthless German drug lord and his high tech weaponry in the lawless South American jungles.
Starring: Louis Gossett Jr., Paul Freeman (I), Horst Buchholz, Christopher Cazenove, Shin'ichi ChibaDrama | Insignificant |
Action | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
English SDH
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region A (locked)
Movie | 3.0 | |
Video | 4.0 | |
Audio | 4.5 | |
Extras | 1.0 | |
Overall | 3.0 |
John Glen's " Aces: Iron Eagle III" (1992) arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Kino Lorber. The supplemental features on the disc include a vintage trailer for the film as well as archival production stills. In English, with optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature. Region-A "locked".
All of these drugs were on my friend's plane?
Presented in an aspect ratio of 1.78:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, Aces: Iron Eagle III arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Kino Video.
The release is sourced from an older but good master that was supplied by StudioCanal. Indeed, because no attempts were made to 'improve' the master with digital tools, the entire film has a stable organic appearance. Now, there are still some minor fluctuations that reveal minor weaknesses, but they don't the typical digital qualities that make many older masters problematic. Basically, there are some very small flucutations that prevent select darker areas from having optimal depth, and from time to time light black crush flattens some native nuances. A few highlights are elevated as well, causing existing nuances in well-lit footage to struggle a bit. But the rest looks good, at times -- with close-ups in particular -- even very good. Colors are stable and nicely balanced. Image stability is very good as well. (Note: This is a Region-A "locked" Blu-ray release. Therefore, you must have a native Region-A or Region-Free player in order to access its content).
There is only one standard audio track on this Blu-ray release: English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0. Optional English SDH subtitles are provided for the main feature.
I was quite surprised by the elaborate orchestral soundtrack that was created for this film, and then rather impressed by the manner in which the lossless track handles it. The lossless track really sounds great -- it is clean, sharp, nicely balanced, and with excellent ranges of nuanced dynamics. If possible, when viewing the film turn up the volume on your system, and I guarantee you will be pleasantly surprised as well. There are no encoding anomalies to report.
Aces: Iron Eagle III delivers late-night entertainment of the kind that you would get from films such as Last Plane Out and Acapulco Gold. Basically, you should expect a nice dose of exotic action mixed up with a proper dose of B-grade acting. The wee hours of the night is when I find these films most effective, and I actually regularly make room for them in my viewing schedule because they keep things in perspective for me. Aces: Iron Eagle III is not a minor gem that is waiting to be rediscovered, but it is not a bad film either. You just have to see it at the right time to appreciate what it has to offer. Kino Lorber's release is sourced from an old but good master that was supplied by StudioCanal. RECOMMENDED.
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