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| Michael Biehn | ... | Robert Hart | |
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Mark Edward Anderson | ... | Wayne Northrup |
| Adrian Paul | ... | Shooter | |
| Kathleen York | ... | Victoria Elliot | |
| Greg Joung Paik | ... | Maj. Kang | |
| R. Lee Ermey | ... | Sen. Pullman T. Fowler | |
| Denis Forest | ... | Dennis Larson | |
| Grace Zabriskie | ... | Brig. Gen. Burke | |
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Janet Price | ... | Orderly |
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Paul Perri | ... | Maj. Shelby |
| John Carroll Lynch | ... | Sgt. Plonder | |
| Barbara Eve Harris | ... | Sgt Rhodes | |
| Jennifer Blanc-Biehn | ... | Sgt. Susie Warzenak (as Jennifer Blanc) | |
| Shawnee Smith | ... | Sgt. Addy Cooper | |
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Wendy Gazelle | ... | Sgt. Lorraine Towers |
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To stamp out the threat of nuclear war a special ops team must travel to North Korea to carry out a covert mission to destroy a nuclear power plant. Everything does not go as planned. Their communications are cut off and they must remember their survival training to get them through. Written by Bren L. M.
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"Dead Men Can't Dance" is a film that relies heavily on other films, interweaving plot conflicts and cliches that we've seen a million times before into one motion picture. However, the ones they use to combine work nicely: A small all-women platoon fights its way through Vietnam, trying to figure out which among them are spies and which in the government are the villians working alongside the enemy. Sure, we've seen it all before, but in order for a film like this to work, it must take the cliches seriously and make sure they flow and interlap smoothly. This film does that, and it knows how to make them work. After all, this is a movie trying to be an action flick, not a serious approach to the Vietnam War.
The cast is generally good- Michael Biehn, Mark Edward Anderson, and Adrian Paul stand out as the men trying to lead the women to victory, and most of the women, played by a bunch of unknowns, are well played. Its almost as if all the actors know that their characters are paper-thin and designed to be cardboard cutouts, and they choose to have fun with it. This factor helps tremendously.
However, despite these pluses, the film as a whole is extremely poor. The camera work is shoddy, and the production values are terrible. It looks as if it was filmed with a cam corder most of the time, and the synthesizer music only adds to its cheeziness. Some directors can hide a low budget (1993's "Fortress" is a good example). This guy, however, cannot. The results are an impressive, if overused, plot with lousy details around it. And if you don't have the visuals mastered in war films, you don't have anything.
*1/2 out of ****