Women can compete

Rating: 8/10 (12 September 2001)

Having friends in all branches of the military service, I came to appreciate this movie. Demi Moore is great as the woman who made SEAL- a friend of mine who is a SEAL saw this with me and said that is exactly what training is like. Demi Moore never backs down- even when beaten by the Masterchief. She also confronts the Senator to protest her unfair treatment. In this movie she is both strong and vulnerable. As a woman in the military she beats the odds, but as a woman in love she has to let her boyfriend know she will NOT stand back and be patronized. Some of the scenes were hard to watch-- especially her treatment by the Marines in charge. All together I watched this move three times-each time I found more in it than I expected. My boyfriend who was a Marine in combat in Vietnam also liked the movie and watched it several time.