Maybe Eastwood's Worst Film

Rating: Null/10 (9 September 2011)

This film centered around a painfully obnoxious and immature group of soldiers and their hard-nosed sergeant. The soldiers, led by the ever- noxious Mario Van Peebles, were a group of losers that seemed to have escaped from the local Youth Guidance Center. Every time Van Peebles opens up his mouth, it's another negative racial stereotype against black people. He never stops with the lame quips and wisecracks: "I'm the Ayatollah of Rock n' Rolla"; "I'm funkadelic", "Mac's the name, lovin's my game"; "take that suckas"; "It's a beautiful day and I'm ready to play"; "I should be home watching The Flintstones". Those are just a few of the dozens of lame utterances coming from Van Peeble's mouth. He never shuts up. All were uttered in the heat of battle and you just wanted him to get shot. Then, he fires about 200 rounds in a med. school dorm and a beautiful blonde steps out of the shower and drops her towel. Can we say "gratuitous nudity"? Then, there's the fight between old man Eastwood and a recruit who is 6'7" and 300 lb. of solid muscle. Eastwood dispatches him as if he were a 5 year old girl. How? He grabbed his arm and the guy cried uncle. Took one second. This marks the first film where Eastwood lost his voice. He barely whispers everything.