Chappy Sinclair is called to gather together a mixed Soviet/U.S. strike force that will perform a surgical strike on a massively defended nuclear missile site in the Middle East. Chappy finds that getting the Soviet and U.S. Pilots to cooperate is only the most minor of his problems as he discovers someone in the Pentagon is actively sabotaging his mission.
Practical Effects
Real F-16s and MiGs actually filmed flying, not CGI magic.
Acting
Louis Gossett Jr. single-handedly carries this entire operation.
Production
Shot in Israel doubling as generic Middle Eastern country.
Director
Sidney J. Furie
Louis Gossett Jr.
Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair
Mark Humphrey
Capt. Matt Cooper
Stuart Margolin
Gen. Stillmore
Alan Scarfe
Col. Vardovsky
Sharon Hacohen
Valeri Zuyeniko
Maury Chaykin
Sgt. Downs
Colm Feore
Yuri Lebanov
Clark Johnson
Graves
Jason Blicker
Hickman
Jason Gedrick
Doug Masters
Mark Ivanir
Balyonev
Uri Gavriel
Georgi Koshkin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Louis Gossett Jr. played Chappy Sinclair in four films total, making this the most inexplicable quadrilogy in cinema history.
Released in 1988, this imagined US-Soviet cooperation that literally happened in real life one year later during Desert Storm—making it accidentally prophetic.
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