Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
2.5/4
Okay
Ichabod Crane - wrote on 12/23/2009
A fine film about navy training. It gives a fairly interesting portrait of the time in the man's life, and all the people around him. Somethings in it were rather predictable in my book such as what happens to the man character's friend. This is not a type of movie that I am overly interested in but it was fine. The biggest problem with it would be that Richard Gere plays his character sometimes very strangely. He is good some of the time but acts very oddly other times. The romance is fine if you like ti but the best parts of the film are good thanks to the drill sergeant.
Oscar Win Lou Gossett Jr. Best Supporting actor 4/5- Gossett is very good and very interesting in this role and makes the best parts of the film. He plays the standard drill sergeant character perfectly, but he …
Rating of
3.5/4
Made Gere a House Hold Name..
mdtinney - wrote on 09/09/2009
I was amazed to see the low ratings on this recent classic movie by Taylor Hackford. It brought forward young actors (Gere, Winger, Keith, Caruso) and older ones- Lou Gossett Jr.- with truly outstanding performances in an initially unknown film. What a treat to see it again. The actors, the setting, the depth and authenticity of this film were as powerful as ever. It was created and recreated from a real memoir of Naval Officer Training. It was reset in a wholly different world from Florida to Washington State but it was the people. the romance the realism of the feelings and conflicts of young people facing the world and each other that make it a grand operatic film. Scored with Rock and Roll and a famous Theme song, it is a movie about youth that speaks to all ages in both fantastic …
