It really isn't easy to make a movie as mind-bendingly bad as Best Defense. It takes hard work, a very great deal of money and people so talented that it matters when they fail with such utter lack of distinction.
Best Defense
Unfortunately, they're both on our side.
1984 · 1h 34m · R
Comedy, War
Directed by
Willard Huyck
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Best Defense
Overview
An engineer fails to get the bugs out of a tank before an Army officer has to use it in Kuwait.
Director and cast
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Top critics, in their words
A dismally unfunny shambles.
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