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Heartbreak Ridge

1986

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood, Marsha Mason, Everett McGill, Moses Gunn ...

7.2

34,288

War. Drama. Action Further exploring and expanding his iconic screen persona, producer-director-actor Clint Eastwood stars as Tom Highway, a Marine Corps Sgt. who drinks too much and is constantly getting in trouble. Nearing retirement age, having alienated most of his superiors, Highway asks to end his career where it began and is transferred to perform gunnery sergeant duties in his old outfit. There, the small reconnaissance platoon he is to train ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"We have seen this story in a hundred other movies (...) But Eastwood, as the producer, director and star, caresses the material as if he didn't know B movies have gone out of style (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"[It] is no ''Rambo.'' It isn't aggressively muddle-headed - the low body count probably has something to do with this. Instead, ''Heartbreak Ridge'' is almost wistful."	POS
United States	Paul Attanasio The Washington Post	"At the end, you can't decide whether Eastwood and his platoon should get medals or merit badges."	NEU
United Kingdom	Chris Peachment Time Out	"The film belongs to Eastwood. Now looking increasingly like an Easter Island statue, he has a voice pickled in bourbon, a tongue like razor wire, and a body so full of shrapnel that he can't walk through airport metal detectors."	POS
United Kingdom	William Thomas Empire	"An unusually thoughtful look (and a broad one) at powers on the wane, at America's shift from Vietnam polarisations to 80's apathy, and at one man teetering on the brink of a lonely old age (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"After 90 minutes of old-fashioned character-building, there's nothing to do with these Marines (...) Most of the time you wonder why they weren't issued beach towels with their bayonets."	NEG

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