"You been freeze-dried or doin' hard time?"

Rating: 9/10 (24 May 2008)

The poignant opening frames, accompanied by a drum roll, which show black and white footage of soldiers from the forgotten meatgrinder that preceded Vietnam혰the Korean War혰fade into a scene in a big city jail, where Marine Gunnery Sgt. Tom 'Gunny' Highway (Clint Eastwood) is holding court... profanely. No kidding, the expletive-laden, obscenity-charged language in this movie from start to finish is not only fresh and funny혰I never knew there were so many words for sex organs and sex acts혰it would leave half an hour of dead silence in any showing of the film on commercial television.
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