a5c7b9f00b A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wifehe takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.
1983. Tom Highway is a well-decorated career military man in the United States Marine Corps, he who has seen action in Korea and Vietnam. His current rank is Gunnery Sergeant. His experiences have led him to become an opinionated, no nonsense man, who is prone to bursts of violence, especially when he's drunk, if the situation does not suit him, regardless of the specifics or people involved. Because of these actions, he has spent his fair share of overnighters behind bars. Close to retirement, one of his last assignments, one he requested, is back at his old unit at Cherry Point, North Carolina, from where he was transferred for insubordination. He is to train a reconnaissance platoon. His superior officer, the much younger and combat inexperienced Major Malcolm Powers, sees Highwaya relic of an old styled military. Highway's commanding officer, Lieutenant Ring, the platoon leader, is also a younger man who has no combat experience, but is academically inclined and happy-go-lucky. Highway finds that his team is a rag-tag bunch of slackers, who includes wannabe rock musician Stitch Jones, with who Highway had an inauspicious earlier meeting. The men in the platoon, who truly believe Highway is crazy, hate him, and don't understand why they have to follow his harsh training regimen when the United States is not currently at war. The major, who is all about efficiency regardless of combat readiness, has the same views of Highway. He is clear that he sees Highway's platoon solelya training mechanism for his own elite squad trained by Highway's nemesis, Staff Sergeant Webster. Things for Highway and his platoon change when the United States enters into war in Grenada. Through it all, Highway tries to reconnect with his bar waitress ex-wife Aggie, he even clandestinely reading women's magazines to understand her better. Two primary obstacles stand in his way: Roy Jennings, Aggie's boss and current suitor who hates Marines, and Aggie's own remembrance of how dysfunctional their marriage was.
HEARTBREAK RIDGE isn't one of Clint's best movies. The story is too disorganized and goes on for a length beyond the limits of its thin material–but fans of Eastwood will get their money's worth. Even without a role that has him in the saddle, he's the toughest, gutsiest hombre who ever took some recruits and got them ready for battle. And the script gives him plenty of one-liners which he delivers with that confident "Dirty Harry" style whether he's addressing his men or his superiors. My favorite line: "With all due respect sir, you're beginning to bore the hell out of me!"<br/><br/>Everett McGill is the marine Major who gets the short end of the stick from Clint. Marsha Mason has a totally irrelevant rolethe romantic interest, Clint's ex-wife. They battle endlessly and hers is a role that could have been eliminated without doing any harm to the storyline. Mario Van Peebles has fun with his rolea cocky, guitar-strumming singing marine. Eileen Heckart and Bo Svenson are wasted in thankless roles.<br/><br/>Summing up: much ado about nothing–but Clint is fascinating with his one-liners.
User djecatepec stated "I mean, give me a break, Korea and Vietnam went on for years and killed millions!" <br/><br/>Gee, I don't know where you got your history lesson from, but the total casualties from both the Korean & Vietnam wars was less than 100,000 Americans, not the MILLIONS you exaggerate it to be… unless of course, the U.S. killed 900,000 Koreans & Vietnamese! You guys just love to inflate figures (like the way the Democratic Presidential candidates love to inflate the Iraq war figures). But, what do we expect from liberals; they love to be very liberal with their figures and stats….
As the gritty, raspy-voiced sergeant, Mr. Eastwood's performance is one of the richest he's ever given. It's funny, laid-back, seemingly effortless, the sort that separates actors who are run-of-the-mill from those who have earned the right to be identifiedstars.
Yes and no. It stretches credibility to think that an entire squad of recon Marines who are lacking an effective staff NCO to lead them would dare to have become so reckless and undisciplined in such a short time. Even without the leadership of a staff NCO who would be in pay grades E-6 through E-9, we would figure that the platoon leader being a 2nd or 1st lieutenant would have assigned a staff noncommissioned officer on an interim basis, at least until a permanent staff NCO could be assigned to take charge. So in essence this part of the script took a lot of liberties to create entertaining drama and to set up the impending conflict between Gun. Sgt. Tom Highway and his new recon unit of reckless and undisciplined Marines. Of course the unit got so reckless during the lull of peacetime and without being deployed to fight any real enemy so then we can imagine that they got so out of line due to the ongoing boredom of their situation. Plus nobody was available to take charge of them until they got Gunny Highway to take command. Also, Lieutenant Ring was shown to be too soft and inexperienced in his positionwell. With a commander suchMajor Powers, who is not only arrogant, but extremely incompetent, he would not ensure his men were properly trained. Powers is clearly an arrogant and ambitious type who's risen through the ranks rapidly to become a high-ranking officer. He's also just been handed his 1st commandan officer at a combat-training facility and is likely looking to rise to the next rank very quickly, which would be Lieutenant Colonel. Therefore he's going to be a hardcase about the men under his command. In Highway, he sees an older officer at the end of a long career and believes he's already outlived his usefulness. Also, Highway has a history of conflict with superior officers (hence, his lack of promotion to higher ranks), something that Powers is already aware of: he mentions that Highway had previously hit an officer that was a friend of Powers', another strike against Highway with his new CO.<br/><br/>From Highway's perspective, having had a long career in the Corps, he sees Powersanother arrogant and domineering officer with a much higher rank than Highway's and is yet another superior he'll have to endure despite his vast superior experience. He also figures out very quickly that Powers is intelligent but doesn't have the command experience eithera training unit supervisor ora combat officer to understand what goes into training the men for combat. Powers' training program is a foolish one: Powers believes that because the Recon platoon are undisciplined and unmotivated (because of a lack of effective supervision) they can be useda training tool for the elite company he's trying to build with Sgt Webster and 1st Platoon. What Highway knows is that a recon platoon like his has a very dangerous task in combat: to be deployed ahead of a unit like 1st Platoon to assess enemy positions, tactics and movements and report back to the rest of the company so they'll have a strategic advantage. If Highway's men aren't properly trained, their inexperience could get them killed along with Highway, something Powers doesn't (or refuses to) understand. Powers was talking about "ROAD" which is an acronym for "retired on active duty". Powers was disappointed that the sergeant who he'd placed in charge (or had been in charge previously) of the Recon platoon took the assignment and promptly retired. Nothing else is mentioned about why the sergeant decided to retire but it left Recon without a senior officer to keep them training, in shape and ready for combat. To put it simply: Highway shows camaraderie with his men, even when he's putting them through hell. He wants them to be the best and succeedMarines – Highway knew that letting Swede be arrested and jailed would not improve his attitude or combat skills. He instead allowed him a chance at redemption by becoming a true marine so he orders him to fall out for the day's PT. <br/><br/>Highway knew that Swede let himself be influenced negatively by the other guys in his platoon – either before Swede got out of the brig (jail) or justhe returned to the platoon the guys or perhaps just Stitch himself, talked to Swede & told him they had another old-timer like Highway who was much tougher than their last sergeant and that their cushy lives were about to be ruined.<br/><br/>Highway likely sensed that Swede was a much better Marine and not simply a muscle-bound thug so Highway wanted to give Swede the opportunity to shape up and become a disciplined Marine. After the fight is over, it's pretty clear that Swede respects Highway more than his recon comrades because he probably realizes that Highway could have beaten him harder and injured him worse. Highway didn't & Swede found new respect for his new CO.<br/><br/>Swede is also obviously the biggest man in the platoon &we see later in the film, is responsible for carrying the unit's heaviest weapon, an M60 machine gun. It's a large automatic rifle that weighs just over 23 lbs and takes a strong person to carry and operate – when the rifle was first introduced to combat units, it often took two men to operate in the field. Highway wanted Swede to be properly trained for combat so he'd have his heavy gunner with him during battle –we see later in the film on Grenada, Highway deploys Swede a few times right up to the front of their perimeter with the M60 to lay out heavy fire on the enemy.<br/><br/>Finally, don't forget that Highway was under very tight scrutiny by Major Powers, who already hated Highway and was looking for a reason to get rid of an older officer who was very close to retirement. Powers would be watching Highway to see if there would be any incidents precisely like this one that could provide that kind of leverage. Highway severely beating up one of his own men, despite the circumstances plainly showing he was attacked, would make his unit look even worse than it already did. Additionally, Swede's comrades also may have been counting on one of two outcomes: either Swede would beat Highway badly enough that he'd be too severely injured to continuetheir CO thus prompting Powers to assign a new gunnery sergeant to Recon or that Highway's beating of one of his own men would prompt Powers to get him kicked out of the service. Highway very smartly made short order of the incident and Swede was more than willing to take the opportunity to shape up fast. Yes, it's very loosely based on the United States invasion of the island of Grenada in 1983. More info can be read here and here. The Battle of Heartbreak Ridge took place during the Korean War. Eastwood and his writers fictionalized Tom Highway's involvement in it, along with his friend Choozoo. During the battle, Highway performed with conspicuous valor in combat & was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Late in the story, Choozoo tells Stitch Jones the story about how Highway got the medal. No, the Beirut barracks bombing is never mentioned in the film.
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