"I guess we're not 0, 1 and 1 anymore"

Rating: 3/10 (30 August 2003)

Heartbreak Ridge is a bad film. There are cliches stacked on cliches. The only depth I could find was how the elite unit was depicted as demoralized and slack. I took this to be a symbol of USA at the time. The films message would be that USA had allowed itself to go sloppy and now was the time to do something about it and resume it's journey along the path to predestined glory and of course world dominance.
This film has one quote that is so funny it is gut wrenching: "I guess we're not 0, 1 and 1 anymore" (reference to Vietnam and Korea). Was going to war with the small island of Grenada (population today: 93,000) a way to get even with the world for losing in Vietnam (and not winning in Korea)? Makes you wonder, doesn't it? :)