This was a great little dramatic character study with a few action set pieces. It was fun watching Tom Cruise in an early role as a young army cadet who gets trigger happy, and Sean Penn as the relatively normal one(!).
(Spoiler warning)
This is one of the few films in the 70s where a young kid is allowed to get mortally wounded, and it works for the dramatic impact. Perhaps the film is a bit heavy-handed in it's themes and moralizing, and probably isn't as significant as it would hope to be; but this is still quite an effective military drama.
(Spoiler warning)
This is one of the few films in the 70s where a young kid is allowed to get mortally wounded, and it works for the dramatic impact. Perhaps the film is a bit heavy-handed in it's themes and moralizing, and probably isn't as significant as it would hope to be; but this is still quite an effective military drama.