Eastwood serves us up with a hoary old story about a platoon of malcontents whipped into fighting shape by a tough veteran sergeant.

| May 27, 2021

There are no surprises in films like Heartbreak Ridge, only catharsis. Like war and contact sport, they release the pent-up aggression of adolescent males. Never mind the cliches, feel the muscle.

| Dec 15, 2020

The whole film seems ideologically forced and out of place, an attempt to resurrect the retentive virtues of Ford and Hawks without the cultural context that gave them expressive strength.

| Aug 6, 2020

''Heartbreak Ridge'' is a film of genuine substance and courage.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 6, 2020

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 6, 2020

A film so uninvolving that you barely wake up for the big battle finale.

| Aug 6, 2020

Heartbreak Ridge offers another vintage Clint Eastwood performance.

| Jul 7, 2010

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.

| Jun 24, 2006

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

| May 20, 2003

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.

| Jan 1, 2000

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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

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.

| Jan 1, 2000