Fresh
Heartbreak Ridge offers another vintage Clint Eastwood performance.
Variety Staff, Variety
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Heartbreak Ridge
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.
Director and cast
- Clint Eastwood Director
- Clint Eastwood as Gunnery Sgt. Tom 'Gunny' Highway
- Marsha Mason as Aggie
- Everett McGill as Major Malcolm A. Powers
- Moses Gunn as Staff Sergeant Webster
- Mario Van Peebles as Corporal 'Stitch' Jones
- Eileen Heckart as Little Mary Jackson
- Bo Svenson as Roy Jennings
- Boyd Gaines as Lieutenant M.R. Ring
- Arlen Dean Snyder as Sergeant Major Choozoo
- Vincent Irizarry as Fragetti
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
63%
Tomatometer
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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