Enjoy it and don't take it too seriously.

Rating: Null/10 (21 April 1999)

All our great actors enter their Autumns, when they can no longer play the roles we've come to love from them, and age forces them into some casting adjustments..
For all the love of Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven", I prefer "Heartbreak Ridge"-where Clint still can flex his muscle, as a crusty old Gunnery Sergeant, short-timing it to mandatory retirement. A hero who just won't ever change from the spit and polish gung-ho Marine he was 25 years ago.
Sure it's corny in places, and even more corny in others, jive in some places, and ultra-jive in others. It's a throwback to the War movies we grew up with-where the US was the good guys, and the good guys always win, although not without at least one unfortunate casualty.
Something tells me this movie may earn more than a few criticisms from the militarily wise. For us ignorant to the real ways of the services, we don't mind a bit.