Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780790735429 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC ISBN: 0790735423 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: April 01, 1992 Running Time: 130 minutes Sales Rank: 19639 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: December 05, 1986
Amazon.com essential video: The controversial, Reagan-era invasion of Grenada by U.S. troops is, oddly enough, at the center of this initially interesting story of a seasoned Marine sergeant (Clint Eastwood) routinely insulted by younger officers for being a symbol of the war that America 'lost' in Vietnam. Looking for both a victory and a little redemption, Eastwood's character trains a squadron of scrappy pups and turns them into fighting grunts, just in time to follow White House orders and take the little island. Marsha Mason plays Eastwood's love interest, and Mario Van Peebles is funny as an undisciplined con artist who joins Clint's men and finally catches the spirit after getting his butt kicked a few times. --Tom Keogh
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Rating: - One of the best Eastwood's movie
This is probably one of the best Clint Eastwood movies I have seen. It's classic and so well done.
Rating: - Does the corps proud, and unproud
I was serving in the Marine Corps when this first came out. Many of us used to kick back and jeer at the discrepancies in it. Such as, The bulk of the story takes place at Camp Lejuene N.C. and it was filmed at Camp Pendleton Ca. The terrain at the two bases is radically different. Eastwood's platoon of recon marines is depicted as a ragtag crew of slackers. Marine force reconaissance is an elite ,all volunteer force in league with Army rangers and Navy SEALS. It's doubtful that such an unruly recon platoon has ever existed. On the training exercise when Gunny Highways no nonsense CO challenges him to hand to a hand to fight at the pit, it's another one. Any commissioned officer that would pull a stunt like that, especially in front of the men, would be in front of his own superiors desk in a snap. Of course, the same could be said of a Staff NCO (senior noncom) who man handles his men as Eastwood's Tom Highway does. ... Read More
Rating: - Good, though not great, Eastwood...
I have been going through the Clint Eastwood catalog over and over again (and I have seen everything he's directed!), and I rewatched this recently. I didn't care for it the first time I saw it, and my first opinion still stands. It's not a terrible movie (it is a Clint Eastwood film), but it's very conventional, predictable, and a bit tired too. It's still head and shoulders above most filmmakers' best work, as Eastwood is an artist and great craftsman so even his lesser work is still worth watching. The film is about Eastwood, a regular army Sergeant, having to train a very slack platoon of Marines and prepare them for battle. The film ends in Grenada, where Eastwood and his platoon save American students from guerillas. Many have thought that Eastwood was endorsing the Grenada invasion, but it isn't really like that. Clint just used that as a catalyst for the bigger picture, so to speak. There's no political ... Read More
Rating: - Surprising movie
The movie is a surprise. It is not all violence. Instead it is mostly light humor coupled with a underlying love story. Violence is at a minimum. Enjoyed the movie every time I have watched it.
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