The events take place in 1973 when a Louisiana Army National Guard squad on weekend maneuvers in rural bayou country comes under serious threat from local Cajun settlers after a small tort... There is a plenty of dramatics, reasoning, disclosure of attitudes and values, some twists and turns, but, as a whole, the plot is dullish and includes several improbable scenes (e.g. occurrence of traps ahead of the squad while it was lost on the way). The tensions are not always up high and the very ending is trivial; its preceding events in a Cajun village could have been entirely avoided.
The cast is evenly strong (leading with Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward), but it seems that their characters were not very versatile to be performed. All in all, a far above-average movie, but there are more catchy topical movies out there, where is real cat-and-mouse play between chases and quarries. Of course, those having taken part in battles or military exercises, could get more out of the movie, see different angles and nuances...
The cast is evenly strong (leading with Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward), but it seems that their characters were not very versatile to be performed. All in all, a far above-average movie, but there are more catchy topical movies out there, where is real cat-and-mouse play between chases and quarries. Of course, those having taken part in battles or military exercises, could get more out of the movie, see different angles and nuances...