Overall impressive

Rating: 9/10 (6 September 2014)

One of the other reviews I read about this title stated that the movie would have been better off with another actor playing the main character Col. Shaw. I humbly disagree. Matthew Broderick is an understated actor and he plays a young - and probably too young - commanding officer excellently.
The movie shows very well what discipline and motivation and not least training can do to people, and it also shows what lack of purpose, lack of training and lack of discipline can do to otherwise normal, but uneducated, people. The lack takes away principles and higher standards.
You can make animals - or as Col. Montgomery says it: "They are just like monkeys." Indeed, they were like monkeys, but that just shows that you can make any human behave like a monkey, not that they are born like them.