Heartbreak Ridge

Heartbreak Ridge is a 1986 war film starring Clint Eastwood, who also served as both Director and Producer. The movie is about an aging U.S. Marine (played by Eastwood) who is tasked with whipping a ragtag group of undisciplined Marines into shape, and eventually leading them into combat in Grenada.

While I do like Clint in this movie, he is playing another one of those tough, grouchy, no-nonsense characters he's known for. A lot of his dialogue involves spouting off lines like;

• "You're dead marine! You just got your legs blown off, and we have to send a search party out for your testicles."
  

• "I've drank more beer, pissed more blood, and banged more quiff than all you numb-nuts put together."
  

• "The United States' Marines are lookin' for a few good men - you ain't it."
  

-and-

• "Sergeant, get that contraband stogie out of my face before I shove it so far up your ass that you'll have to stick a match up your nose to light it."
  

As for the supporting characters, they're a mixed-bag and all of them are fairly one-dimensional. This is also a movie that suffers a bit from having a 2 hour and 10 minute runtime, but it's a story that could've been told in about 90 minutes. 

Overall, I like it and I think it is a pretty entertaining film but, it definitely isn't up there with my all-time favorite war movies. 
3 out of 5