It was already cheesy at that point, but the part where they were down on the ground & just happened to stumble upon an F-14, took that into the air & used it to defeat much newer airframes really took me out of the immersion.

Honestly, if they’d found a ww1 byplane and the copilot had used a bucket to scoop air from the inside after they got hit, I wouldn’t have found it much more cheesy.