Don't watch late at night when the kiddies are asleep because this flick is a yell-fest virtually from start to finish. The first twenty minutes especially is virtually all yells, and it doesn't get much better from there. Everyone is yelling, the sergeant, the recruits, everyone. Sir, yes sir!
That being said, I didn't find the film as good as most others but it is good. I'm a big Jan-Michael Vincent fan so that helps if you like him. He's fine as the hippie Adrian who is drafted and reluctantly reports to boot camp.
Sgt. Thomas Drake (Darren McGavin) who is leading his group of recruits immediately doesn't like Adrian, but comes to later like and respect him a bit. It's never really clear why this happens, and kind of happens out of the blue without much reason.
For a TV-movie it's decent, but there are a lot of scenes of recruits doing their thing which seem to accomplish nothing more than extend the running time. There's an attempt at some additional drama with a troubled recruit who befriends Adrian but this really goes nowhere. We never really get to know any of the recruits that well. Even Adrian, as he is so low-key it's difficult to make such a character too enthralling. Earl Holliman does a decent job as Master Sgt. Frank DePayster, who takes a particular dislike to Adrian.
Not a bad movie at all, just a bit on the thin side with, of course, lots and lots of yelling.
That being said, I didn't find the film as good as most others but it is good. I'm a big Jan-Michael Vincent fan so that helps if you like him. He's fine as the hippie Adrian who is drafted and reluctantly reports to boot camp.
Sgt. Thomas Drake (Darren McGavin) who is leading his group of recruits immediately doesn't like Adrian, but comes to later like and respect him a bit. It's never really clear why this happens, and kind of happens out of the blue without much reason.
For a TV-movie it's decent, but there are a lot of scenes of recruits doing their thing which seem to accomplish nothing more than extend the running time. There's an attempt at some additional drama with a troubled recruit who befriends Adrian but this really goes nowhere. We never really get to know any of the recruits that well. Even Adrian, as he is so low-key it's difficult to make such a character too enthralling. Earl Holliman does a decent job as Master Sgt. Frank DePayster, who takes a particular dislike to Adrian.
Not a bad movie at all, just a bit on the thin side with, of course, lots and lots of yelling.