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Heartbreak Ridge

...the scars run deep.

1986 · 2h 10m · R Drama, War
Directed by Clint Eastwood

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Overview

A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.

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All reviews
68%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Heartbreak Ridge offers another vintage Clint Eastwood performance.

Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh

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.

Chris Peachment, Time Out
Fresh

As the gritty, raspy-voiced sergeant, Mr. Eastwood's performance is one of the richest he's ever given.

Vincent Canby, New York Times
Rotten

To tell the truth, the Grenada Incursion looks even sillier on film than it did in the headlines. War is not hell, it's big box office.

Rita Kempley, Washington Post
Rotten

A few Cubans with AK47s isn't exactly "The Guns of Navarone." At the end, you can't decide whether Eastwood and his platoon should get medals or merit badges.

Paul Attanasio, Washington Post

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